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Is dark fantasy as a subgenre in their own golden age? How bright is its future?

>> No.17199170

post your question in /sffg/

>> No.17199181

>>17199154
>dark fantasy
Yeah I've read Malcolm X's biography, no the magic system wasn't good.

>> No.17199188

>>17199154
>Is dark fantasy as a subgenre in their own golden age?
No. "Dark and gritty" is just trendy atm. This, of course, means that 99% of "dark and gritty" fiction is absolute garbage.
>How bright is its future?
If not bright, hopefully at least a bit less "dark and gritty".

>> No.17199195

>>17199154
Game of Thrones ended and people hated it so the genre is dead now

>> No.17199229

>>17199188
This. Eventually there'll be a race to the bottom, to who can be the most dark and grittiy.

>> No.17199259

>>17199154
It's called Grimdark and people are sick of it. They want a return to the magic and majesty of Traditional Fantasy, not some Cormac McCarthy-lite book about rape and spilling guts.

>> No.17199288

>>17199229
It's already a race to the bottom. My niece read me some of her YA girl books and the shit these middle aged women write for their audience is downright depraved. Mind you this is the more milquetoast stuff. Most fiction today is tragedyporn bullshit.

>> No.17199420

>thread about a golden age of a genre
>only game of thrones is mentioned

Are there any great works, or are we just talking about tired discussions of Joe Abercrombie and the Malazan series, with some Conan thrown in for good measure. Not a genre fiction reader here, but have been going through some Noir recently.

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>>17199154
https://www.deviantart.com/uthp/journal/The-Legend-of-Twilight-Zelda-Princess-part-I-348420007

>> No.17199541

>>17199288
Really? I figured YA would be safe from Grimdark, but then both are still relatively trendy.

>> No.17199591

>>17199541
I recommend looking into the personal backgrounds of the people who write YA. They all share a lot in common. Some of what they share in common is that they are all middle aged women and they are all extremely degenerate. To give you an example, in one of the recent books of Sarah J Maas, the main character was blackmailed to go to some elf party dressed in what's basically body paint, then get intoxicated on elf drugs and do close-and-personal dancing with the antagonist while her love interest has to silently watch from the sidelines. Mind you this isn't even close to the worst thing my niece showed me and even then I haven't seen much at all. The type of books being written for teen girls today are utter sewage in textual form.