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When someone shows all humans (not some, ALL of them) as being racist and arrogant despite being inferior to the other races, there's obviously no desire there to show a nuanced or realistic portrayal of humanity. Those authors are just writing a caricature of people they don't like, a talking...

I'll just say it, I think that the people that write and read these novels with weak and evil humans are just people that consider themselves to be superior to everyone else but are frustrated over not being treated as such (since they are really not). Humans in these fantasy novels are meant...

I don't even know how many times I've seen a story that has humans claim to be superior to 'race' while 'race' claims to be superior to humans, but the author makes the humans say it in an over-the-top rude way (that doesn't sound like the way any human would ever talk), while 'race' tries to be...

Edgy idiots like you are the reason why I had to stop reading stories on scribblehub...

Why is it that when a story has humans that "domesticate" another sapient race, the story is all about how horrible and evil humans are for doing so, but when something else enslaves humans in the same way, people call it "cute"?

Yeah, I'm sure that these novels would be amazing if I judged them with the standards of an onion. Which is not something that can be said about these fantasy races. They really are always just humans with extra powers and weirdly shaped bodies. That's why the only moral standards that can be...

The 'they really are superior' excuse has always sounded like complete nonsense to me. Because we are not talking about a difference in the mind, but a difference in power. Humans possess self-awareness and 'sapience' while ants do not. To truly write a race that is as far away from humans as...

Oh, look, I've been reincarnated in a fantasy world as part of a nonhuman race. My new race has super strength and magic, and lives like 100 longer than humans (traits that make us truly relatable and sympathetic), so we think of humans as if they were insects (yes, I said 'we', I immediately...

A subversion only really works when the thing you are trying to subvert is actually the norm. Humans being evil and demons good is now WAY more common than the opposite, it doesn't subvert anything at all. A story that makes the demons the evil ones again would be closer to being a subversion at...

The 'humas suck' trope. Making humans be both an inferior race that's weaker than any of the other fantasy races (which makes them the underdogs that is natural to root for) and making them arrogant and evil at the same time. Words cannot describe how much I've come to hate this trope. It's the...

The definition of 'species' is 'a group of organisms that can reproduce naturally with one another and create fertile offspring'. If half-elves are a thing, then eating elves is cannibalism, if that's not the case then it's technically not. The same is true for every other race.

That's what you and your friends do. I only started doing something similar in response to someone doing it first in this thread. Stop with the projection.

1. This thread was supposed to be about one specific trope. The talk about evil protagonists only started because someone started to talk shit about good protagonists in a very inflammatory tone, so I responded in kind by talking shit about evil protagonists in the same tone because I'm tired of...

I'm fine with some flawed characters, ruthless protagonists, or even moral ambiguity. I just hate when I see an irredeemable piece of shit that I'm still expected to like. 95% was a bit of an exaggeration, but this website is plagued with stories that treat the slaughter of innocents (or the...

I didn't say that. If we're going to assume things based on nothing, I guess I'll assume that you only like the most eebil protagonists (oh so edgy) because you were bullied in high school and this is your pathetic way of vicariously getting revenge against the world.

I wasn't talking about evil protagonists, I was talking about a specific trope. But since you mentioned it, yes, evil protagonists are both frustrating and uninteresting. If you want a MC that does not let themselves be toyed with by the villain, just write an MC that doesn't let themselves be...

I REALLY hate the trope where you have some powerful being that's feeling down for some reason so they start killing innocent people by the thousands because of their sadness/anger. Why should I care about the feelings of a mass-murdering piece of shit? Why should I care if they lost someone...

A mistake.

One thing to keep in mind is that there seem to be a lot more women writing romance than there are men. So logically, the best romance authors are more likely going to be women, but so are the worst.

It sucks. Just think about this, everyone who has done it never did it again.