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We're digging into the "All Her Fault" Horror Phenomenon and asking ourselves, is it *really* All Her Fault?
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Not really sure why this is my line but something about OPTIMALLY TIMED DEATH! hence GRIEF AS NARRATIVE WRINKLE! makes me feel genuinely insulted as a reader and it makes me so angry that it's almost impossible for me to sit with anything I liked about the story up to that point.
Magic is scary and powers need to be hidden, AND our heroine gets bullied because she doesn't have powers yet! BOO!
Witches are queens, like literally ran the government, AND they've always been reviled by society! EW!
Magic is a status symbol, EXCEPT the extra powerful kind our heroine has! WEAK!
Man there is no way for a story to lose me faster than "Everything is going great! Story is about to resolve! Time for a secondary character to SUDDENLY DIE!!! Guess we've got a whole new set of emotional baggage to unpack!!"
idk maybe it's having lived the actual irony of a family member who ran a funeral home and was constantly being pulled away from dinners because "people die at the most inconvenient times!" dying tragically young a week before Christmas, you can't make that shit up but it was still anything but tidy
Anyway if this bothers you too probably skip [SPOILER!!!!!!] Main Characters by Bobby Palmer. Also continues to sit poorly with me in re: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, slightly more complex twist on the device but probably the first time I noticed how much it got to me (derogatory).
Look I just think it takes an astonishing deftness of hand to write a world where society rejects magical powers when they are obviously really fucking cool and everyone would want to have them/be in the good graces of people who have them, it's been done well obvi but it should not be the default!!
The more romantasy I read the more I realize I don't really care about the design of a magic system but I care a LOT about the role of that magic system in the fictional society
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WEIRD DAY!!!!
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I'm 770 pages into The Wise Man's Fear and after about 4 chapters of going oh, I forgot, there actually is a single supporting woman in this story who is not sexually obsessed with our protagonist, NOPE, SHE'S ALSO DOWN. The chokehold these books had on every dude I knew in the 2010's, fuck's sake
