"It’s not that I dislike tropes — I love fanfiction! It was the fertile soil in which I sowed by nascent writing skills! — but the increasing overreliance upon them is… boring."

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"Typically, when readers and writers are referring to romantasy, they are referring to the increasingly popular subgenre of fantasy books that have romance stories at their core.

Or are they romance books with fantasy settings?"

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"Once Upon A Time was Disney’s first and best attempt at a fairy tale shared universe and a darker, slightly more adult take on the genre, and yet it failed miserably."

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"There are, of course, already many Greek myth inspired worlds including: Xena Warrior Princess and Percy Jackson, but if there can be a million worlds inspired by Tolkien there can be just as many inspired by Greek mythology."

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"So monster romance is getting steamier and (pardon the pun) beefier. Vampire fangs and reluctant werewolves seem tame in comparison to the increasingly normalized stories of love between monster men and millennial women."

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"I totally fell for the aestheticization of the genre, forgetting that the “dark” part of dark academia once meant something far more meaningful than earth tones and Bordeaux-colored lipstick."

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"Reviewing the two series this way, we can see that some core worldbuilding pillars (telepathic dragons, weyrleader vs wingleader, life-draining threats that only dragons can face) were lifted from the Pern books."

#booksky #fourthwing #dragons

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"But let’s not talk about fanfiction as a whole; instead, focus on Senlin Yu’s masterpiece. They took our much beloved world of wizards to introduce sharp moral complexities and a myriad of greyscapes in what was once a ‘good vs evil’ series."

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"Isekai has become a hugely popular subgenre in Japan, South Korea, and China. The daydream of leaving corporate drudgery for a magical world in the style of epic fantasies like the settings of favorite books, movies, and video games is obviously appealing."

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"In re-examining the words of the founding fathers of steampunk, we can make some educated inferences as to why sky ships and mechanized cities could appeal to readers in the year of our (tech) lords 2025."

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"I didn’t know it then, but this was my first encounter with worldbuilding. Dragonology and Wizardology in particular sketched the outlines for worlds wherein a child’s imagination could run wild."

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