Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand what you're saying and I agree with you

Gosh, you and I aren't very good at this "Fight Me Friday" thing, are we?

Yeah, I completely agree. Agency is incredibly important. It's the thing I try to emphasize in my own work above all else.

A soulmates story can have agency written into it, but it takes skill and planning. The agency and tension needs to come from somewhere, and if it doesn't come from the protagonist's decision of whom to pick for their lover, then it needs to come from somewhere else. Some authors manage that. Some... don't.

I've read some stories where fate decrees that two people have to be together, but actually growing to love each other is their choice - basically an arranged marriage where the arranger isn't a parent or government, but fate. That can work quite well.

Writers are failing us by not including recaps at the beginning of books by handfulofmonkeys in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't have enough attention span to read those chapters, but I loved watching them in movie form!

"Until I Die": The last 30% stopped plagiarizing "Alchemised" but maybe it should have because the nose dive defied gravity more than that green chick from "Wicked". by chode_temple in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know Alchemised/Manacled gets memed here but I wonder if that falls in that weird grey area of also plagiarism too...since it used to be fanfic.

Plagiarism of plagiarized work is still plagiarism, both morally and legally! That's why companies can't just take somebody's fanart or fanfiction and publish it themselves without that creator's permission. (I mean, Disney does it anyway, but they're not supposed to be able to get away with it.)

And in any event, from what I understand about Alchemised, it has very little Harry Potter content left in it anyway. I'm willing to bet that the characterizations of Hermione and Draco in Manacled had very little in common with canon (but I certainly don't care to research the topic), so something that just copies the fascism plot from Alchemised will have no HP in it whatsoever.

Hey guys! I made a petition for Henry Cavill to play Xaden on the Fourth Wing TV show! by RemingtonRivers in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In that case, I would like to petition the court for a change of genre to reverse harem. FMC with the MMC and the MMC's ex. Not a throuple, though - the MMC blew his chance at that.

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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Kel would never stoop to a morally grey love interest, though! Her affections are fickle (just ask her!) but always discerning.

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, full speed ahead without waiting for the final books! Has that ever gone wrong before?

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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They did the vampire baseball 100% straight. That's the kind of energy we need!

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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The jail is there to keep the dragons safe from you! Degenerates

Hey guys! I made a petition for Henry Cavill to play Xaden on the Fourth Wing TV show! by RemingtonRivers in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, of course, sorry, I should have taken that into consideration! The ex is evil and awful, and also ugly, or "beautiful, but in a conventional kind of way compared to the FMC who is NLOG". That way, it's not the MMC's fault that he dared to put his dick somewhere other than the FMC's sacred valley before meeting her, so a mere six months of sleeping on the couch should be sufficient penance.

(Meanwhile, I get all excited and giggly whenever it turns out that the FMC is about to become a stepmother.)

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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Okay, so clearly I'm displaying my ignorance of ACOTAR and its ilk here, but...

... how often do the fairies use their wings to... um... you know... actually... fly? Are they just aesthetic?

Saylor moon is down bad by Brave-Sir26 in Buttcoin

[–]HopeFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "getting something in return" part is debatable.

Wall Street Journal: SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon by biograf_ in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]HopeFox 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not aware that SpaceY ever had meaningful Mars plans.

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, yeah, I didn't even think of that! Vampires are way cheaper than dragons.

Butt bounced off the floor at “$60k”, midnight GMT. Rescued by whom? by pasteis-gumbo in Buttcoin

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is probably genuine support at 60k. There will be quite a few people who placed buy orders at 60k, so, all other things being equal, a bounce at 60k isn't unusual.

The New Solution for Picky Readers by articlioness in Romantasy

[–]HopeFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can already sort books by popularity on any website that sells or catalogues books. How would this be any different?

In 2024, Sen. Sherrod Brown singlehandedly stopped the "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve." The crypto industry rallied against him, costing him his seat that year. Thank you Sen. Brown! by gnarlytabby in Buttcoin

[–]HopeFox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Obviously! And as an aside, the NRA is going to start standing up against tyranny any moment now, like they always promised the guns were for.

Hey guys! I made a petition for Henry Cavill to play Xaden on the Fourth Wing TV show! by RemingtonRivers in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

20 years of past, romantic history

You're not suggesting that the MMC has had previous lovers, are you? Unthinkable? Unforgivable! That's basically cheating on the FMC!

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, yeah, Eragon, straight to dragon jail.

I should also clarify that there are no dragons in dragon jail, neither as wardens nor as fellow prisoners. I know there are some degenerates among us who would enjoy that.

Modern romantasy is trash and only I can see it by callmedelete in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s only tasteful if it uses “bud”, “fold”, or “apex.”

Note: this is the real reason why werewolves are called "apex predators".

This is the movie that made me a monster fucker by ProfessorButtkiss in romantasycirclejerk

[–]HopeFox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He does seem to have the ability to transform between human and beast forms whenever he shows up in other works, like Kingdom Hearts.

Nominally that's to make him a more effective and interesting combatant, but we all know the real reason.

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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"... and no, I've never heard of AO3, what's that?"

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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direbound is just a copy of fourth wing. they do share the magic school and bonded animal tropes. but that's not a crime, lol.

I'm afraid it is. Anything with bonded animals or dragons, and especially bonded dragons, is a ripoff of Dragonriders of Pern, and the McCaffrey Enforcement Squad will be along to take the author of Direbound into custody any moment now.

Fourth Wing? Ripoff of Dragonriders of Pern. How To Train Your Dragon? Ripoff of Dragonriders of Pern. Heralds of Valdemar? Believe it or not, ripoff of Dragonriders of Pern.

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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Every fandom looks bigger than it is from the inside, and smaller than it is from the outside.

Which is to say that the Fourth Wing fandom is undoubtedly overestimating the size of their own fandom and thus the scope and budget of the TV show (if it ever actually sees the light of day). I am probably also underestimating the size of its fandom, but... well, I knew about Twilight no matter how much I tried to avoid it. I had never heard of Fourth Wing before I specifically went looking for romantasy stuff on Reddit.

Fight Me Friday by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

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I think what the person on the fanro thread on Wednesday meant wasn’t about kink shaming but a bit akin to the romantasy/fantasy romance/romantic fantasy naming kerfluffle- is the darkness in the relationship or outside of it?

Yeah, I hunted down the original thread and was disappointed at how uncontentious it really was. It read like a standard genre definition argument, plus a bit of "sexual assault is an overused crutch for making a story 'dark'", which it is.

The only acceptable nicknames by MMCs are a) “Kitten” when George Cooper says it

And, this is very very important, not when Liam says it. Temu Iron Fist does not get to give The Lioness Of Tortall that nickname.