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== Tropes Limyaael has specifically ranted about ==
* [[Alien Tropes]] ([[Starfish Aliens]] vs. [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]] etc): "On alien species and worlds and keeping them alien" [
* [[Anachronic Order]]: non-linear narrative rant [
* [[Animorphism]] and [[Shapeshifting]]: On shapeshifters [
* [[An Adventurer Is You]]: aversion: Rant on D&D stereotypes [
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Non-villain rant [
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: On escaping the arranged marriage trap [
* [[Author Avatar]]:
* [[Avoid Writing a Mary Sue]]: Many of her rants are devoted to this.
* [[Bond Creatures]]: Telcom rant [
* [[Con Lang]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/conlangs conlangs]
* [[Creator's Pet]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/author%27s%20darlings Author's Darlings]
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: Casual worldbuilding [
* [[Death Tropes]]: Death rant [
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: "Rant on abuse of abused characters" [
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Raining shit on the story and not letting it stink [
* [[Dream Tropes]]: Dream rant [
* [[Easy Amnesia]] Rant on amnesia/amnesiac characters [
* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Rant on elemental magic [
* [[Ending Tropes]], [[Feghoot]]: Smooth endings rant [
* [[Evil Overlord]] (and [[Mordor]]): aversion thereof - Rant on creating non-Dark Lord villains [
* [[Fantastic Caste System]]: "Class/caste systems" [
* [[Fate and Prophecy Tropes]]: Destiny and prophecies rant [
* [[Feral Child]]: Feral child rant [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/287234.html (IJ)]
* [[Final Battle]]: The final battle [
** aversion: There are other ways to end a fantasy book than battle [
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Subtle foreshadowing rant [
* [[God Mode Sue]]: Means of prevention. "Ten ways of making all-powerful, unique protagonists tolerable" [
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Half-breed heroes [
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Rant on whores [
* [[Idiot Ball]]: And are your characters sane today? [
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* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: aversion: Making convincing loner characters [//limyaael.livejournal.com/421560.html (LJ)]
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* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511032437/http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/world-building:+medieval Medieval Societies]
** aversions: "On stepping out of medieval fantasy" parts one [
* [[Medieval Stasis]]: Keeping static worlds plausible [
* [[Magic and Powers]]: World-building: magic rants [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/world-building:+magic]{{Dead link}}
* [[Mindlink Mates]]: One of Limyaael's most hated tropes [
* [[Monologuing]]: Rant on avoiding a villain monologue [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/545749.html
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]
** [[Our Demons Are Different]]: Demon Rant [
** [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Rant on dragons [
** [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: The Dwarves' Turn [
** [[Our Elves Are Better]]: Why Are Elves Always This Way? [
** [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Ghost rant [
** [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Vampire rant [
** [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Rant on non-angsty werewolves [
* [[Parody Tropes]]: Parody fantasy [
* [[Physical God]]: Beings of extreme power rant [
* [[Planet of Hats]]: "Avoiding gimmick-worlds" rant [
* [[Psychic Power]]: Psychic powers rant [
* [[Point of View]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/viewpoint%20rants Viewpoint rants]
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* [[Queer As Tropes]]:
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Making good reluctant heroes [
* [[The Resistance]]: Rebel rant - parts first [//limyaael.livejournal.com/244534.html (LJ)]/[http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/227107.html (IJ)] and second [//limyaael.livejournal.com/246992.html (LJ)]/[http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/229270.html (IJ)].
* [[Roma]]: Rant on gypsies and nomadic peoples [
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Several rants on grammar and words [
* [[Save Both Worlds]]: Rant on juxtaposed worlds [
* [[Science Fantasy]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307073850/http://limyaael.livejournal.com/577404.html Science fiction and fantasy hybrids]
* [[Sci Fi Ghetto]]:
* (Stock and not-so-stock) [[Settings]]: [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/setting%20rants setting rants]
** [[Grim Up North]]: Life in a northern town [
** [[Thirsty Desert]]:
** [[Hungry Jungle]]: Sounds of the jungle. [
** [[Ocean Punk]]/[[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]: "
* [[Sex Tropes]]: Sex in fantasy novels [
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Designated Love Interest rant [
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: aversion:
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Rant on creating likeable bastard characters [
* [[Standard Fantasy Setting]]: On escaping Tolkien clichés [
* [[Story Within a Story]]: "To put, or not to put" [
* [[Take That]]: Fantasy of excess: Rant on Jordan and Goodkind [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/302111.html
* [[The Amazon]]: Sounds of the jungle [
* [[The Empire]]: writing empires part one [
* [[The Runaway]]: Fantasy teenage runaways [
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Writing a psychotic viewpoint character [
* [[True Companions]]: Rant on friendships [
* [[True Neutral]]: Neutral character rant [
* [[TV Genius]] Rant on genius characters [
* [[Twin Tropes]]: Twins rant [
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]:
* [[Urban Fantasy]]: "On urban fantasy." [
* [[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]
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Rant on winged humanoids [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/509267.html
== Tropes that have been mentioned or discussed on the side while ranting about any of the above topics ==
* [[Automaton Horses]]: "Amazing Mechanical Horses" are regularly mentioned, including Animal rant [
* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]: In the Rant on slippery-slope plotting. ("We’ve changed our minds! Because it was time for a plot turn!") [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/283798.html (IJ)]
* [[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.
* [[Counterproductive Propaganda]]: In the "Propaganda rant" [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/372799.html (IJ)]
* [[Cult of Personality]]: By [[Mary Sue|necessity]], the issue pops up now and then, such as in "Rant on creating good rulers" [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/293840.html (IJ)] and "Rebel rant" (parts first [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/227107.html (IJ)] and second [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/229270.html (IJ)]).
* [[Easy Evangelism]]: In "Rant on loyalty" [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/547070.html (IJ)] and "Avoiding gimmick-worlds" [
** Also with [[Evil Minions]]/[[Gullible Lemmings]]: in "Propaganda rant" [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/372799.html (IJ)]
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: "(Poor sharks. The authors have them show up, but how often do they feed them? Not often)." [
* [[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.
* [[Masquerade]]: In urban fantasy rant: [
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Here and there, including Propaganda rant [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/372799.html (IJ)]
* [[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.
* [[Rightful King Returns]]: In "Stupid plots rant - Last Herald-Mage spoilers" [
* [[Show, Don't Tell]]/[[Informed Attribute]]: All the time, e.g. the "Rant on creating good rulers [http://limyaael.insanejournal.com/293840.html
* [[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."
* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]: "Avoiding gimmick-worlds" rant [
* [[Unnecessarily Large Interior]]: Both rants on sea: "Yo ho ho and a bottle of...something" [
{{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.}}
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