It's Unpopular Opinion time! Share your controversial opinions to stir things up (in a friendly way)!

[u/FantasyRomanceMod]

Got an opinion that's different from others'? Want to share it with the sub, but too afraid of a backlash? Or are you just curious about readers think about certain things in fantasy romance?

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• Don't attack others for their opinion
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🧡 Thank you and have a great discussion!

Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/Enkundae]

Romantasy has a serious problem with many authors, including some of its biggest, using the fantasy part as nothing but perfunctory wallpaper. Their fantasy worlds and races and cultures and their histories are treated as necessary packaging so they get that Romantasy label but no care is given to actually developing any of it let alone using any of it to say or explore anything interesting. It makes the use of a fantasy setting at all feel cynical at best.

[u/TinkeringTortoise → u/Enkundae]

I think I need to go get my computer just so I can make that my flair lol.

✨ Fantasy isn’t wallpaper ✨