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Ghostly Bree
@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

I did actually write out my personal opinion of the moving target that is romantasy, why it's not really a genre, and what the dividing line between fantasy romance & romantic fantasy is. Thank you for @cxorlando.bsky.social for letting me use this very professional & normal title. lol

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Sandy B. [threatening vaguely again]
@nebulousmenace.bsky.social

I have a question as a fan of "boring worldbuilding" myself: I sometimes read books that just kind of go "everyone knows what a witch is" and don't give any feel for what they can actually do. Is this 1) "wrong for me" books, 2) an eternal struggle, 3) author skill issue or 4) other?

Ghostly Bree
@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

I could not possibly tell you without reading the book, tbh. It depends on what the author is trying to do and whether or not they're accomplishing it, which is also completely separate from whether or not the book is for you, and complicated by SFF's awkwardly narrow definition of worldbuilding.

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Sandy B. [threatening vaguely again]
@nebulousmenace.bsky.social

I cannot tell you the book even if I could find it, because I have a "Don't be mean to authors in public unless they didn't earn it*" rule. (I suspect we have a lot of agreement on worldbuilding- The Chocolate War has worldbuilding.) * Child of a bestselling author, actor-turned-writer, etc.