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It’s not even true in regular cosy fantasy. The reader may have meta-knowledge that the protagonists will be fine, but for the...

To add to the two above, this is the opening line to Brigands and Bread knives, that sequel to Legends and Lattes which was a founding...

This just isn’t true in the context we’re talking about here, of a romantasy novel. In this context, cozy is just an antonym for spicy...

Big fan of this take. This also helps give an explanation to the “Mos Eisely Cantina effect.” No one wants to be an adventurer; it’s...

Sure! But those are problems at an interpersonal scale. I was referring more to the problems of global scale.

Not that I disagree with that necessarily, but I'd also just add that people can just generally be real jerks overall, especially to...

Oh, I do agree that the internet has never been a worse place than it is now, with the centralization, the automation of moderation, the...

I might be romanticising the past here, but I think the internet right now is probably at its worst. From the earliest days it was very...

Social media is certainly bad for people’s mental health. I’m not convinced the pre-social media internet was all that much better...

It really isn’t. It’s an aesthetic that is waning in popularity, because newer audiences find it uncomfortably reminiscent of real-life...

I just started it last night because this thread reminded me it exists, and it does appear to be that! And yeah these books are...

I believe it's a side character from one of the previous novels actually choosing to leave the cozy stuff behind and go adventuring, and...

I felt the bullying was very much downplayed from the reality. “Cosy” bullying, to try and keep the thread on topic.

One of Travis Baldree's other books, Bookshops and Bonedust, features the same main character in a similar cozy setup; it's actually a...

The over-the-top bullies in Stranger Things are over-the-top, but genre appropriate. Stranger Things is a love-letter not just to the...