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My own personal bugaboo is referring to any outdated flowery medieval English as "Shakespearean". No. the term you're looking for Early...

Indeed. The mistake Celebrim is making is to suggest that the point is to "cleanly" divide the genre into two camps, or that being...

In SF criticism, these are the terms used to characterize the divide. I have zero interest in yet another pedantic quibbling about...

Given how autocorrect works, yeah.

Mod note: Your choice matters too, Paul. Your choice here seems to say, "You will use MY preferred language, or I will consider you a...

😂 how on earth….lol Barovia has a lot of the same letters I guess

I think it’s broadly accurate to say that a lot of English-language fantasy media created since 1930 or so has some elements of built-in...

Yes, I think they do have very different viewpoints on the world, and I don't think Abercrombie shares Tolkien's beliefs about the...

See, but Tolkien wrote from a place of hope in darkness, and a world worth saving. From the standpoint that people are good but can be...

I couldn't finish The Blade Itself, stopped reading after an incident of major domestic abuse in the text that was just uncomfortable...

So, I will say first that 4e’s implied setting, Nerath or Nentir Vale or Points of Light Land, Föraeia, whatever you want to call it, is...

This is a long and somewhat rambling essay. Recent World Events have gotten me thinking about worldbuilding and the nature of D&D...

Agreed Okay but consider If it takes multiple books for anyone to not be either terrible, doomed to failure because the book seems...

Don't apologise, I love a good rant. I'll take technically correct. It's my favourite type of correct. ;)

Proposal: grimdark edgelordocity is just the toxic mirror of Romantacism.