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Topic: Towards a extra inclusive Sword & Sorcery  (Read 1524 occasions)

These are all truly the identical style: darkish/gritty fantasy meant to insurgent towards the usual Arthurian/Tolkienesque romantic fantasy clichés.

Well, a lot of S&S’s traditional stuff predates Tolkien, and Tolkien himself was in his personal manner rebelling towards classical romance tropes by placing the solidly English lower-/middle-class hobbits entrance and centre as fish-out-of-water heroes. But you are proper, it is at all times potential to deconstruct style labels by declaring that the issues they differentiate between normally have extra in widespread than not.

I’m not opposed in precept to the concept that a selected subgenre can get stale and that intentionally going past its stereotypical tropes can reinvigorate it. I simply dislike the advertising and marketing method which explicitly politicizes that course of.

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I’m not opposed in precept to the concept that a selected subgenre can get stale and that intentionally going past its stereotypical tropes can reinvigorate it. I simply dislike the advertising and marketing method which explicitly politicizes that course of.

Yeah, this sucks. What’s worse in some methods is that I believe that within the present atmosphere, politicized advertising and marketing is much extra profitable than non-politicized advertising and marketing. So perhaps he isn’t incorrect in a enterprise sense, but it surely nonetheless sucks and I dislike it.

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