Meanwhile, the real crimes of @tkingfisher.com: indirectly reminding me, via a thread tangent, about Ye Olde TSR novels, because now I have to re-read both the Drizzt saga (which I had been wanting to do for a bit, TBF) and Spellfire, the existence of which I just recalled yesterday.

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This is like the period where every urban fantasy with a female author was being marketed as "paranormal romance." The genres are closely related, but they aren't the same thing.

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hm. kinda crazy how people can drink and smoke do drugs etc while generally being left alone about it because people recognize that's not their business but the moment a fat person eats literally anything suddenly everyone's a nutritionist

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the obsession with whether or not fans of a thing are "larpers" is an illness. exact kind of lame gatekeeping bullshit as the guy who'd see a girl in a band shirt and go "name five of their albums" or the comic book guy who has to prove he knows more about batman than you, but for a new generation

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Marketing every new fantasy with a romantic element as romantasy does a disservice to readers and writers. Romance & fantasy have different expectations (no shade to either), so a romance in a fantasy setting is NOT THE SAME as a fantasy with romantic subplots. Everyone just ends up annoyed

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