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Topic: Towards a extra inclusive Sword & Sorcery  (Read 1568 occasions)

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

Well, a lot of S&S’s basic stuff predates Tolkien, and Tolkien himself was in his personal means 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 all the time potential to deconstruct style labels by mentioning that the issues they differentiate between normally have extra in widespread than not.

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

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

Yeah, this sucks. What’s worse in some methods is that I believe that within the present surroundings, 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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Yeah. E.g. I see stuff being marketed as New Weird and Slipstream, that are meaningless labels to me. Wikipedia’s description is simply meaningless phrase salad.

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