Notices by Sarah (gaycodegal@mastodon.social)

@tlalexander this doesn't make her not a 10. That's a: she's a 10. She's going to tell you about robots

@eniko the real names policy is about "be called something like Kate Foresworth" and don't be called "SnakesAssIsThicc". It doesn't matter if there's 12 different spellings of Kate you may be known by they'll let you use any of them it's all about keeping out people who only go by handles or who wish to remain anonymous, which is largely trans people, or other minorities. The point is really not to exclude someone who changed their last name

@adaddinsane @eniko I feel like it's fine if a trope is common every writer has to learn somehow and it's a known trope readers like, and writers are free to ignore the trope if they want to. I hear Chinese fantasy has different tropes.

I honestly care more about the world building and characters than if the story uses a common archetype or even has 'good' writing.

@adaddinsane @eniko Septimus heap is widely regarded as being more popular for its story telling than its adherence to common editor suggestions.

And the hunger games honestly who cares how it ends or if you disagree broadly with how the story should have gone or characters developed. It just has very rich world building and that was so powerful the author could have made a variety of changes and people would have still loved it