QOTW December 8, 2021
Why Is the Fantasy Genre so Silly and What’s a Poop Rope?
Sarah Paris and David B. Clear ask
When I started this little experiment to answer a reader question once a week, I thought it’d be easy to pilfer old work and find inquiries.
The bad news is
I was wrong.
The good news is
Sarah Paris, B.G. Warren, and David B. Clear plus Twitter have saved the day!
Let’s start with Sarah’s rhetorical question, which is in reply to my hate-bait about Star Wars, LOTR, and MCU.
"For the most part, I love the MCU. Star Wars is hit or miss for me — I love the 1st three, but feel pretty “meh” about everything else. I love LOTR because the story IS transcendent and very applicable to real archetypes and life. But as a whole, I really loathe sci-fi. It gives me a headache. Fantasy — again, hit or miss. Why is there always at least one character with blue skin, a knight with an apostrophe in his name, and some kind of “Lady of the Elves or Fairies or whatever”? But! Along with LOTR, I love medieval themed fiction. I swear by The Chronicles of Narnia. And Seasons 1–7.3 of Game of Thrones still stand as my favorite TV series."--Sarah ParisI hoped I’d be able to reserve some time for serious research into the subject of blue-skinned fantasy characters, apostrophized knights, and Ladies of the Whatevers.
Update 12/9/2021 Danielle Loewen came to the rescue!
Alas, I became side-tracked by B.G. Warren, who is my newest blogger-crush. He has words, y’all. And, a weiner of questionable size. So, yeah. Move on over Hogan Torah and Smillew Rahcuef; Imma flirtin’ with a new blogger-man —
I mean, have you seen the size of his
Meanwhile, David B. Clear is vying for all our attention on Twitter by asking important questions, like “Have you heard of the term poop rope?”
Yeah, no, David. Nope.
Well, apparently, we should want to, because “As a writer, you should always be willing to expand your vocabulary.”
Well, David, I couldn’t agree more. And, I finally have a way to drop in this fun little resource for all the writers of the world who’d like to expand their vocabularies to include words like “hydromancy,” “acumen,” and possibly “poop shoot.”
It’s a website called Word Genius.
On this website, you’ll learn the definitions of words such as ramify, elide, sibilate, and mawkish.
Or, just read the work of Danielle Loewen and B.G. Warren.
Back to the poop rope. I guess it’s in the snake realm of the below chart. I feel we owe Jackson Pollock an apology.
Who decided to troll the artist in his grave by telling him his art resembles the runs?
In those fantasy films with fantasy people, do they poop differently? Have you ever had multi-colored poop?!
I feel that highly-dyed sugar once helped my body produce magically blue unicorn fantasy-style poop, but I took no pictures, thus have no evidence, so don’t bother asking.
It simply won’t make it into the QOTW.
Cheers until next week!