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[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Romantasy exists to solve this problem

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Is it like Greektasy, only a bit further west, or something else entirely?

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

They're totally different.

Greektasy has steamy romance with inconveniently attractive brooding werewolf-pire enemies-to-lovers plotlines, whereas Romantasy has the same thing with a different name.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 day ago

Joke's on me, I don't like romantasy either. I like my fiction to be philosophy disguised as magic and spaceships.

Romance is what sells though, and I'm glad something sells to keep authors around writing my pensive wankery.

I did toy with the idea of writing the chapter long smut pieces I see around. Then decided I would have to devote more time than I want to devote to smut to do it right and not scam people.