i need authors or publishing companies to figure out how to write good summaries for fantasy. you do not need to introduce all the vocab terms of this world, you need to give the audience an interesting hook. Like, random names and scenarios pulled out of a hat, “Asmand is on the run for a murder he did not commit. Or, at least he’s pretty sure he didn’t” is a lot stronger a hook than “Asmand is on the run from The Council of Nine Elders for killing the Svelah, the eldest of them all, while under a Trayenas, a mythical trance emparted on him by Blyth”
you people are out of your mind when you nostalgia post about the kindness of the olden days of fandom. You really think people weren’t telling each other to kill themselves in comments on deviantart? You think independent forums didn’t have 50 page flame wars? Wordpress didn’t have authors doxxing each other?? Take off the rose tinted glasses, my darlings. Look upon the pile of filth and see it for what it was.
idk shitting on women for their romantasy ‘read in 2025’ piles……. at some point u ppl are going to have to ask urself why u have this energy for women and their fuckass tiktok books but not men and their self help bs or men and their manga or men and their sci fi or or or like ur always making it about women and the dumb shit they do for fun. idc. that elf porn they’re reading doesn’t effect me and it doesn’t effect u either. go read ur beloved Babel again if it helps
thing is ppl watch shitty tv literally all the time but when women dare to read romantasy ppl act like they’re blaspheming the most sacred and ancient art of reading. like there haven’t always been shitty books. books aren’t special they are a Medium and they don’t need u to defend them by bullying some random girl for reading white-labelled reylo
“The ad was in a women’s magazine and if I remember correctly, was for a perfume. It featured a white woman lying in bed with a black man. The man’s shirtless back was to the viewer, making only his taut, muscular form and powerful-looking arms and shoulders visible. He was faceless, unidentified. The woman looked sultrily at us from over his mysterious form, satisfaction writ large over her features. She had partaken of whatever delights this man had to offer and was smugly, luxuriantly basking in the afterglow. The ad copy was, “Take a walk on the wild side.” My teacher used the ad as an example of how marketers can use certain words and images to convey large amounts of information subtly and effectively. A white woman having sex with a black man? How risqué. The implication: be a little like that woman. Spray on that perfume and feel like the kind of girl who has sex with faceless, muscular black men in ritzy hotel rooms because it’s an adventure, a thrill, a risk, something illicitly pleasurable. These are the semiotics of race. This is why columnists will trip over themselves not to call Lupita Nyong’o or Angela Basset “beautiful”, choosing instead to use terms that call to mind a kind of savage, animalistic magnetism: fierce, striking, edgy, eye-catching. Words like “pretty” and “beautiful” and “cute” are for white women whose bodies and sexualities are not seen as wild, animal, or untamed. Black men are hulking, threatening, thuggish; white men are charming, sexy heartthrobs with hearts of gold. Brown women are exotic, with their “honey-coloured” skin and their “mystical”, “enchanting” beauty, unlike their white counterparts, who are held up as not only ideal, but knowable and safe. White people are beautiful; non-white people are dangerous.”
I frankly don’t care how many Venezuelans around the world support the invasion. I think it’s a good example of how the “listen to X voices” rhetoric is essentially flawed.
There are already many Venezuelans in my country out in the streets celebrating the invasion and I’m pretty sure there will be more celebrations by the Venezuelan diaspora around the world in the coming days. This is gonna be an elephant in the room (at least on this site) because people want to condemn US interventionism but they also don’t want to “speak over Venezuelans”.
People are gonna opt to pretend the celebrations are not happening because acknowledging it makes them feel uncomfortable. People are gonna pretend all Venezuelans are against the US, but I feel it’s way more productive to talk about how “listen to X voices” is flawed than to play dumb about reality.
