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Old 05-03-2020, 03:49 PM   #3871
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First part of a trilogy about lesbian! necromancers! in! spaaaaaaace!
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Old 05-03-2020, 04:03 PM   #3872
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir is $2.99 on Amazon.com

First part of a trilogy about lesbian! necromancers! in! spaaaaaaace!
Sigh, yet another book about lesbian space necromancers?
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Old 05-03-2020, 05:54 PM   #3873
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Sigh, yet another book about lesbian space necromancers?
Sounds like the complaint from one of my grand-nieces: "Where have all the boys gone?" Most of the new YA fantasy she loves reading features female main characters with males as relatively minor characters. Admittedly, she also talked her parents into paying to stream the SuperM Beyond the Future concert so she may not have an unbiased viewpoint on gender balance.
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Old 05-03-2020, 07:14 PM   #3874
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Sigh, yet another book about lesbian space necromancers?
There's more than one?

(Before the post you quoted, I didn't know books about lesbian space necromancers were a thing.)
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Old 05-03-2020, 08:34 PM   #3875
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(Before the post you quoted, I didn't know books about lesbian space necromancers were a thing.)
If it does well? There will be more. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

From SoundCloud: Vim - 02 - Theme For Lesbian Necromancer Space Goths for your "entertainment".

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Old 05-04-2020, 01:07 AM   #3876
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Sounds like the complaint from one of my grand-nieces: "Where have all the boys gone?" Most of the new YA fantasy she loves reading features female main characters with males as relatively minor characters. Admittedly, she also talked her parents into paying to stream the SuperM Beyond the Future concert so she may not have an unbiased viewpoint on gender balance.
I mostly read fantasy and have noticed that a significant majority of the books have female main characters. Even though a significant majorty of the books are written by women, the author's gender doesn't seem to matter; the men also more often have a female main character. What bothers me is when they have women in unrealistic roles; twice now I've seen women blacksmiths.
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Old 05-04-2020, 02:30 AM   #3877
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What bothers me is when they have women in unrealistic roles; twice now I've seen women blacksmiths.
Good thing we have fantasy fiction, to transport us to magical worlds where women can be blacksmiths.
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Old 05-04-2020, 03:04 AM   #3878
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What bothers me is when they have women in unrealistic roles; twice now I've seen women blacksmiths.
But that's not unrealistic. Women have been blacksmiths for centuries, with the earliest documentation of it dating back 800 years.

The muscles needed for blacksmithing develop with use, men don't start out being able to do it perfectly either. It's also possible to use a smaller hammer but do more blows if the blacksmith doesn't have the muscle mass yet for larger hammers.
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Old 05-04-2020, 11:50 AM   #3879
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There's more than one?
Oh, I have no idea about the lesbian space vampire genre, or if such a thing even exists. I was just being silly.
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Old 05-04-2020, 11:55 AM   #3880
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I mostly read fantasy and have noticed that a significant majority of the books have female main characters... What bothers me is when they have women in unrealistic roles; twice now I've seen women blacksmiths.
...what bothered me was when the half-orc mage had to replace his battle unicorn's mithril shoes with adamantium ones, the blacksmith... was female! Come on! That totally broke my sense of immersion.

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Old 05-04-2020, 12:59 PM   #3881
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I mostly read fantasy and have noticed that a significant majority of the books have female main characters. Even though a significant majorty of the books are written by women, the author's gender doesn't seem to matter; the men also more often have a female main character. What bothers me is when they have women in unrealistic roles; twice now I've seen women blacksmiths.
You are complaining about fantasy being unrealistic?

(And cite as an example that has been documented for centuries.)
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Old 05-04-2020, 03:23 PM   #3882
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Old 05-04-2020, 03:28 PM   #3883
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You are complaining about fantasy being unrealistic?
Some of us know that goblins, elves, magic, etc. are real.

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Old 05-04-2020, 07:05 PM   #3884
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You are complaining about fantasy being unrealistic?

(And cite as an example that has been documented for centuries.)
They call it "fantasy", to keep us in the dark! What do you think Area 51 is all about? What powers the UFOs?

We are all fat, dumb, and happy to have all the BS spoon-fed to us!
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The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington is $2.99 at Amazon US.

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