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So, someone on my flist linked to pics of RyRo and his 'girlfriend'.

Everyone is squeeing over them, but personally, I think they're fucking awful. They look posed, contrived and very Mrs Robinson.

Now, I couldn't give a fuck about who the kid dates - I'm not even a big enough fan to know he was dating her before I saw these - but these pictures are just creepy, to me. They look like someone's thought, "Hm, what do people consider 'romantic'? Let's do that!" and in the third one, where she's straddling him, he looks like a teenage boy trying not to giggle and complain of girl cooties.

Number six looks like someone was taking a tourist shot of the bridge and some obnoxious bastards decided to stand right in the middle of anotherwise lovely photograph.

They do not look like 'candid shots', kids. They look like a little boy trying to convince himself and everyone else he knows what to do with girls. It's fucking grotesque.

Most of you are way too young to understand genuine love, so maybe that's why you mistake these crappysnaps for beautiful manifestations of it, but you're way, way off.

And yes, that is very patronising, but I don't care. It disturbs me to think that you're going to mistake this Hallmark bullshit for the real thing.

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Good Lord, thank you for saying all that, honestly. I think they're, okay pictures. Like, style wise, but Ryan and Keltie look so fucking awkward and posed to me, it's ridiculous.
But really, it has nothing to do with them, I just think pictures like this are gross in general. Two of my friends had professional pictures taken with each other and I laughed at them so hard I was crying.
Now, if they had a camera to themselves and was walking around taking them, that might have been cute, but these... no. Just. No.

The angles and the lighting - yes, yes, all very nice - but they look like they've been paid to do this. Just two models who only met on the morning of the shoot (and were badly cast in the first place).