#writerscoffeeclub 11 If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
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#writerscoffeeclub 11 If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
That people are special because of who their parents are.
Not just due to the socio-economic status of their parents, but actual "bloodline powers" - that some people are more powerful/cooler/better because of something in their heritage, instead of what they did themselves.
(I am glad that German #folklore has a near-complete absence of this trope, but there's no shortage of this in modern #fantasy.)
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#writerscoffeeclub 11 If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
That people are special because of who their parents are.
Not just due to the socio-economic status of their parents, but actual "bloodline powers" - that some people are more powerful/cooler/better because of something in their heritage, instead of what they did themselves.
(I am glad that German #folklore has a near-complete absence of this trope, but there's no shortage of this in modern #fantasy.)
@juergen_hubert The Venetians might be sort of an exception.
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@juergen_hubert The Venetians might be sort of an exception.
Nah. Either they are a type of spirit and thus human tropes don't apply to them, or they learned their magical powers from the Devil in a Black School.
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Nah. Either they are a type of spirit and thus human tropes don't apply to them, or they learned their magical powers from the Devil in a Black School.
@juergen_hubert
True.Some of them are holy-coded, aren't they?
Some sort of quasi-angelic spirit in those cases.
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@juergen_hubert
True.Some of them are holy-coded, aren't they?
Some sort of quasi-angelic spirit in those cases.
@androcat Can't remember such a tale - most of them seem to be obsessed with accumulating wealth, which doesn't fit with a "holy" portrayal.
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#writerscoffeeclub 11 If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
That people are special because of who their parents are.
Not just due to the socio-economic status of their parents, but actual "bloodline powers" - that some people are more powerful/cooler/better because of something in their heritage, instead of what they did themselves.
(I am glad that German #folklore has a near-complete absence of this trope, but there's no shortage of this in modern #fantasy.)
@juergen_hubert
Instead Gernan folklaw seems designed to absolutely terrify kids with tales of mass child kidnapping, children having their thumbs hacked off, the Mahr, etc. (Source: my German other half who still has terrifying nightmares) -
@juergen_hubert
Instead Gernan folklaw seems designed to absolutely terrify kids with tales of mass child kidnapping, children having their thumbs hacked off, the Mahr, etc. (Source: my German other half who still has terrifying nightmares)As it happens, _another_ book on German folklore I want to write has the working title:
"Reckless Child Endangerment"
