• Remmock
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    963 months ago

    So far I’ve discovered in this thread:

    -People don’t like traditional fantasy that takes itself seriously.
    -People don’t like lighthearted fantasy that plays with the themes.
    -People don’t like hard magical systems.
    -People don’t like soft magical systems.
    -People don’t like dragons being involved.
    -People don’t like an absence of dragons.
    -People don’t like character archetypes.
    -People don’t like counterarchetypes.
    -People don’t like when characters speak an understandable language.
    -People don’t like characters meeting each other in common social meeting areas.

    All good here? Great.

    Just write whatever the fuck you want. There’s always an audience.

    • @[email protected]
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      173 months ago

      That’s just lemmy being too god damn stupid to differentiate between “this is my preference” and “this is bad”, as usual.

      “I don’t like dragons”: preference.

      “I don’t like Mary Sue characters”: bad writing.

      • mechoman444
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        53 months ago

        My brother in Christ, that’s not just lemmy. That’s the whole god damned world.

      • SanguinePar
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        3 months ago

        To be fair the OP question says both “bad writing tropes” and “[that] you hate”, so subjective answers were inevitable.

        I guess it should have just not said “bad”, since that implies an objective standard.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      I like all those things. Well I guess I prefer rigid / hard magic systems, but either can be done well.