D&D General New Feywild themed D&D Romantasy tie-in announced

[Parmandur]

I would never describe inspiration as uncomfortable, no.

I mean, for me writing poetry is like licking the electric third rail. It is often very uncomfortable, but satisfying.

 

[Autumnal]

You're not wrong, but god this depresses me. The whole point of art is to make the observer uncomfortable; to remind them that there is a gulf between perceived and experienced reality.

If so, then a lot of entertainment isn’t art and shouldn’t be. I prefer other definitions of art, personally.

It’s not healthy to spend all day with your pulse and blood pressure where they are when exercising - I presume you know that. Likewise, it’s unsafe to run a vehicle flat-out all the time. Well, stress, depression, and the like also exist. They are physical phenomena in your brain and mine, and they do measurable physical damage to various tissues and organs. People need relief from the toll they take, and that relief is entertainment.

 

[jayoungr]

Not all fantasy romance is "romantasy."

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Is inspiration not uncomfortable?

I don’t normally find it so, no. And that’s true even when I aim to make the audience uncomfortable.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

The description seems like a rogue and a bard

Warlock and a Bard, I think

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Not all fantasy romance is "romantasy."

Yeah, I'm rather bitter about the label myself, especially after hearing how it and "cozy fantasy" have been used as drawers to put all women who write fantasy into, leading to harassment from the terminally online against women who include "uncomfortable" subjects like incest or suicide...in a gothic horror novel.

 

[Charlaquin]

If so, then a lot of entertainment isn’t art and shouldn’t be. I prefer other definitions of art, personally.

It’s not healthy to spend all day with your pulse and blood pressure where they are when exercising - I presume you know that. Likewise, it’s unsafe to run a vehicle flat-out all the time. Well, stress, depression, and the like also exist. They are physical phenomena in your brain and mine, and they do measurable physical damage to various tissues and organs. People need relief from the toll they take, and that relief is entertainment.

As with a lot of things, there’s a healthy balance. All body systems grow weak if they aren’t regularly stressed, and also constant stress is bad for all body systems. We need a mix of periods of stress and periods of rest to maintain optimal functionality. Which I’m sure you’re well aware of, I just think it’s an interesting thing about how bodies work that we need frequent, but not constant, challenge to stay healthy.

 

[Charlaquin]

Yeah, I'm rather bitter about the label myself, especially after hearing how it and "cozy fantasy" have been used as drawers to put all women who write fantasy into, leading to harassment from the terminally online against women who include "uncomfortable" subjects like incest or suicide...in a gothic horror novel.

Unfortunately, society will find any excuse to put women in drawers and harass us. If it wasn’t this it’d be something else.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Not for nothing, but millennial transwomen as a cohort are writing some of the best speculative fiction and horror on the market right now, and no one accuses them of writing "cozy" stuff.

 

[Charlaquin]

Not for nothing, but millennial transwomen as a cohort are writing some of the best speculative fiction and horror on the market right now, and no one accuses them of writing "cozy" stuff.

I mean, I wouldn’t call “cozy” an accusation. Cozy media has its place.

Also, heads up, it’s generally more appropriate to write “trans women” as two words. I’m sure you didn’t intended it this way, but transwomen as a compound word is a lesser-known TERF dogwhistle.