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Yet that still supports my hypothesis that Men seek out different stories than Women. Maybe the foundational reason is due to gender bias but that is not changing how the market bears out. At this current state it is obvious that Men and Women as marketing demographics choose different kinds of...

No its not. Publishers know this. Why is it that the Romance genre has so few male readers? There are men that read romance but theyre not the target audience. Most men aren't reading coffee shop books and most women aren't reading military fiction. This sentiment will be said in the same...

Prevalence has never meant only. I know what is populating the fantasy bookshelves. Cozy and romantasy wouldn't be on Horror and Crime book shelves. The suggestion that these books are an affront came from you not from me.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE posts like this: I'm not including any TSR Publications on the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance and even some of the 3.5 Realms material. I run Forgotten Realms and that would be cheating. But my Forgotten Realms is flavored by: 1. Tolkien Legendarium including ALL The...

I'm sorry, I'm probably reacting to more alarming ideas that ring similar to what you wrote over the years. No. You did not suggest that.

The Witcher at least Geralt is practically whole cloth Elric of Melnibone right down to the potions. The stories are different, but Geralt is directly a rip off of Elric.

Audible has the Full Elric Saga available. The new ones are there too. All about the Von Beck family and the Black Swords.

People Pick up what they want in any story. I would never in a million years ever recognize The Matrix as being a trans allegory. I love the Matrix. I saw it 10 times in 1999 and many times after. It never even occured to me and I don't quite get how it is now. I never picked up on any...

I don't think accepting that its Ok to read stories from the past with racist tropes is problematic in itself. It happened already. The authors are dead, and Lovecraft isn't getting money though I know the Howard Estate does through the license owner. I don't the poster youre responding to...

How does one go about this? Reading Conan and then shouting at the world there was a character that may have been racist depiction? Is it somebody's duty to go onto forums and blast they just read racism? This is where the "recognize its problematic" gets absurd. I can recognize it but its...

It certainly shouldn't be written today. But people reading RE Howard or Lovecraft is not a problem. Nor should the works be heavily edited. I highly doubt anyone is coming away from Lovecraft or Howard with negative opinions towards others. Especially in this day and age. Its just not a...

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John Carter and Poul Anderson were all isekai. Alot of Early Pulp was Isekai as well

I'm not. If you think I'm speaking for all of them thank you! Black and White Pencil drawings would be better than Neon Sphynxes or The Orcs harvesting Prickly pears.

Which one The Bard or the Governor Chris Christie Merchant? I didn't like 5e art directiom either. I didn't like 4e but it had descent Art.

Yes FR was developed in the 60s and published in 1987 when Jeff Grubb got interested in it. The Forgotten Realms of today is a loooong way away from the Forgotten Realms of Ed Greenwood.

I wouldn't say the classics like Howard, and Moorcock are necessarily better but I can't ever imagine reading a book about an orc in a coffee shop. I think the prevalance of cozy and romantasy is really not something male readers are attracted to though. I honestly believe men and women just...

Oh 100% The discussion of racism in D&D and fantasy is extraordinarily tedious or preachy at this point. People that think there is racism are convinced and people that don't find it a stretch.

I have Almost all of these in trade. truly good

I mean with Romantasy and Coffee shop storie like Legends and Lattes inundating the shelves its not surprising that there are less males reading fantasy now. Romance has always been the best selling genre and the readership was not male. same is happening with Romantasy.