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midzel from last year 

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I don’t dislike the BookTok Romantasy Smut Trend because it exists, I dislike it because big corporate publishers have latched onto it, and now all I get advertised are cottagecore fantasies or steamy books that happen to have dragons in them. Makes it harder and harder to find the kind of fantasy books that I do like to read, and I fear that they’ll be published less and less because they “won’t sell” in the eyes of the Suits™️

It is not about the readers and authors at all; it’s about fucking corporate again, like so many other things in this wasteland of a life.

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*Kicks down the door* YOU KNOW WHUMPY TROPES I LOVE SO MUCH BUT BARELY EVER SEE?

MAGIC FATIGUE/EXHAUSTION/OVERUSE.

Give me those sweet side effects of overusing magic:

Getting lightheaded and weak, struggling to stand let alone keep fighting

"Are you ok?" "Yeah I'm fine. *immediately faceplants because their legs can't support their weight anymore*"

F a i n t i n g

Physical injuries like burns, broken bones, etc

The risk of permanent damage either physically or mentally

Can I get uuuuhhhhh "loses a sense either temporarily or permanently depending on the severity of the overuse"?

Stopping their heart (cue the team scrambling to drag their dumbass friend back from death)

THERE'S SO MUCH YOU CAN DO AND I SO RARELY SEE IT.

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"everybody experiences that" says mother who has the same symptom of the same mental illness

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Tumblr accidentally makes a funny on my dash

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conversations with my sisters cat

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Texting my mom “Yeah my lightsaber fell off the wall in the middle of the night and scared the shit out of me” like I’m living in the fucking Jedi Temple or something.

She’s ok, lol. I’ll just have to make a new wall mount.

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Listen, I think D&D goblins as lil bat-like folk accurately captures everything that people really like about them while avoiding some of the troubling implications.

Lives in a cave or an otherwise dim setting? Check, bats do that.

Eats beetles and things? Check, bats do that.

Big, mobile ears? Yep, bat feature.

Sharp teeth for biting? Also a bat feature!

Bats live in big groups and scientists have found they “argue” a lot. Also sounds like fantasy goblin stuff!

Bonus? FLUFFYE.

tldr; BAT-GOBLINS

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why are pipefish so ugly

YOU MADE HIM CRY. TAKE IT BACK!!!

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Listen, I think D&D goblins as lil bat-like folk accurately captures everything that people really like about them while avoiding some of the troubling implications.

Lives in a cave or an otherwise dim setting? Check, bats do that.

Eats beetles and things? Check, bats do that.

Big, mobile ears? Yep, bat feature.

Sharp teeth for biting? Also a bat feature!

Bats live in big groups and scientists have found they “argue” a lot. Also sounds like fantasy goblin stuff!

Bonus? FLUFFYE.

tldr; BAT-GOBLINS

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I'm a Spunky Swallower. Which are you?