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It's a (preemptive) response to criticism that doesn't address the quality of execution but the contents of the fiction, especially where said contents are a deliberate inclusion and possibly defining part of the genre or fiction in question.

Some use it that way, but it's purpose is more of a genre/trope warning, especially when something isn't obvious. For example, while most homophobes won't read BL romance (even though so many of them really want to), if you were to write a typical litRPG power fantasy with a male protagonist...

Growth: An academy is a place of learning. I expect students to be less powerful than teachers and grow in power and knowledge throughout their years of attendance. I'm not a big fan of students who're secretly super-powerful assassins. A student may be more or less talented or hard-working than...

You have and thank you. The financial aspect is actually something I overlooked completely. Thing is, when you say and you're already out of the main strike zone of my criticism, because you have contextualised the trope within your story and it's not pointless. In fact, I might check out...

I'm glad that it's helpful. Just remember, the rule of dick only tells you whether something is believable to think about yourself. It doesn't tell you whether your character is sexist, well represented or well written :s_wink: Just one tool in the box.

Step one: don’t overthink it! The differences between individual women are so much greater than between men and women in general that an individual woman can have pretty much any personality you can think of without it being unbelievable. It can become unrealistic if you portray every woman in...

I think zamu provided an excellent external answer to the question of how we got where we are in terms of these genres, I’ll try and collate some of the more psychological appeals. All of this can be and has been summarised as “power fantasy“ and “wish fulfilment“, but there’s some specifics to...

That I would understand if either the character had been trans before and the transformation is a positive for them or if the world is "gender casual" and lets you change sex easily. But I guess it just falling into your lap might be the easiest way to get the wish fulfillment without having to...

Considering that at times more than half of the top ten on this site have the gender bending tag, I think this might be the right place to ask: why do people write genderbent characters if they’re never going to address the issue? I’ve honestly been soured on this tag over time and it’s not...