Limyaael's Fantasy Rants: Difference between revisions

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== Tropes Limyaael has specifically ranted about ==

* [[Avoid Writing a Mary Sue]]: Many of her rants are devoted to this.

* [[Con Lang]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/conlangs conlangs]

* [[Creator's Pet]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/author%27s%20darlings Author's Darlings]

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511032437/http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/world-building:+medieval Medieval Societies]

* [[Magic and Powers]]: World-building: magic rants [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/world-building:+magic]{{Dead link}}

* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]

* [[Point of View]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/viewpoint%20rants Viewpoint rants]

* [[Science Fantasy]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307073850/http://limyaael.livejournal.com/577404.html Science fiction and fantasy hybrids]

* (Stock and not-so-stock) [[Settings]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/setting%20rants setting rants]

* [[Wangst]]: Unsurprisingly, it's one of recurring issues, so there's a special tag for it: "Rants on angst" [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/rants%20on%20angst] [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/tag/rants+on+angst]

== Tropes that have been mentioned or discussed on the side while ranting about any of the above topics ==

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Though she didn't use the term, her rant on subtle foreshadowing favors elements that aren't supposed to be noticed the first time around.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Limyaael's rant on dragons notes that if your dragon can breathe fire hot enough to ''melt solid rock'', it's probably going to do more than just "make a hero's jacket smolder" in the process.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Limyaael's rant on D&D gameplay mechanics notes that while many of those rules made perfect sense ''in a gaming environment'', they don't translate well into a narrative environment, if at all. (Seriously, why do those wizards ''need'' to keep memorizing the same spells over and over?)

* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Almost any rant about elves, demi-humans, non-humans, etc. will invoke a comparison of the non-human species being in complete and utter harmony with their environment while the humans are hellbent on destroying it.

* [[Improbable Species Compatibility]] / [[Shapeshifting Squick]]: During her rant about half-human heroes, she says that as much as an author wants to just say "[[Bellisario's Maxim|don't think about it]]" when asked how the "mechanics" of it work, the author is the one person who '''should''' be putting more thought into it than anyone else.

* [[No Periods, Period]]: When discussing full-moon-bound werewolves, Limyaael notes that even a woman's monthly period gets better care than full moon werewolf angst. Assuming the author even bothered to think about that, of course.

* [[Realism]]: Pick a rant, any rant, and odds are it's about adding more realism.

* [[Tail Slap]]: When discussing dragons, Limyaael notes that the whip of a crocodile's tail packs enough brute force to kill an average human being. So what would a dragon's tail do? "Probably ''not'' cause light wounds."

{{quote|Take the amount of knowledge most fantasy authors have about horses, as discussed in the last rant. Now take half that knowledge. Now halve the half. This seems to be about the amount the average fantasy author knows about ocean-going, pre-twentieth century ships without doing research.

I mean, at least most fantasists know the approximate size of a horse. They know that writing a horse as squeezing into a gopher hole is insane. Yet they write about roomy ships that apparently have dozens of cabins for rich passengers, and all the room for horses that those passengers’ hearts could desire, while the crew turns invisible when not needed and violates the law of conservation of mass when present.}}