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Limyaael is an English graduate student studying for her Ph.D. In 2003, she decided to express her views on fantasy literature in a rant entitled Why I get impatient with clichéd fantasy.
Since then, she has written more rants on her online journal.Despite the name, Limyaael’s rants are not just for fantasy writers. She also has covered topics that are not limited to fantasy, like dialogue and romance, as well as more general topics like plotting and characterization. One of the features of the journal format is that Limyaael’s commenters also have much to say, from additional facts to opposing viewpoints.The Rants used to be posted on LiveJournal, but Limyaael has moved to InsaneJournal. The Rants originally posted on LJ can still be accessed there, though.Limyaael’s Fantasy Rants are updated here. The archive of Rants can be accessed here, and here, or here.Limyaael's rants were not updated for a while starting around April 2008. In this post (mirrored here) she explains the reasons, and the Rants will not be updated until she has more free time.Tropes Limyaael has ranted about:
- Anachronic Order: non-linear narrative rant
- Animorphism: shapeshifters, shapeshifter societies and blurring the distinction between the "human" part and the "animal part".
- An Adventurer Is You: aversion: Rant on D&D stereotypes
- Anti Villain: Non-villain rant
- Arranged Marriage: On escaping the arranged marriage trap
- Author Avatar: Putting non-obvious bits of yourself in the story/characters
- Bond Creatures: Telcom rant
- Con Lang: conlangs
- Cryptic Background Reference: Casual worldbuilding
- Death Tropes: Death rant
- Deus Angst Machina: Rant on abuse of abused characters
- Diabolus Ex Machina: Raining shit on the story and not letting it stink
- Dream Tropes: Dream rant
- Easy Amnesia Rant on amnesia/amnesiac characters
- Elemental Rock Paper Scissors: Rant on elemental magic
- Evil Overlord: aversion: Rant on creating non-Dark Lord villains
- Fate And Prophecy Tropes: Destiny and prophecies rant
- Final Battle: The final battle
- Foreshadowing: Subtle foreshadowing rant
- Half Human Hybrid: Half-breed heroes
- Heroic Sociopath: Rant on creating likeable bastard characters; Rant on sociopathic characters
- Hooker With A Heart Of Gold: Rant on whores
- Idiot Ball: And are your characters sane today?; also, Stupid plots rant - Last Herald-Mage spoilers
- Idiot Plot: Idiot plots, and how to avoid them
- IKEA Erotica: If it’s just Tab A and Slot B, there’s a problem.
- Ineffectual Loner: aversion: Making convincing loner characters
- Info Dump: aversion: Avoiding infodumps
- Through The Eyes Of Madness: Writing a psychotic viewpoint character
- La Resistance: secret groups rant, which is mostly limited to resistance groups.
- Loads And Loads Of Characters: Rant on handling a large cast of view
- Love At First Sight: aversion: Non-bickering, non-love at first sight relationships
- Love Triangle: What it takes to make Limyaael love a love triangle
- Magic A Is Magic A: Limitations on magic rant
- Mentors: Mentor rant
- Medieval European Fantasy: Medieval Societies
- Medieval Stasis: Keeping static worlds plausible
- Magic And Powers: Magic Rants
- Mindlink Mates: One of Limyaael's most hated tropes
- Nakama: Rant on friendships
- Our Monsters Are Different
- Our Demons Are Different: Demon Rant
- Our Dragons Are Different: Rant on dragons
- Our Dwarves Are All The Same: The Dwarves' Turn
- Our Elves Are Better: Why Are Elves Always This Way? (also covers Cant Argue With Elves and Mary Suetopia)
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Ghost rant
- Our Vampires Are Different: Vampire rant
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Rant on non-angsty werewolves
- Our Demons Are Different: Demon Rant
- Parody Tropes: Parody fantasy
- Physical God: Beings of extreme power rant
- Psychic Power: Psychic powers rant
- Pet Peeve Trope: stupid cliché rants
- Point Of View: Viewpoint rants
- Queer As Tropes: Rant on gay and lesbian characters in fantasy
- Realism: Pick a rant, any rant, and odds are it's about adding more realism.
- Refusal Of The Call: Making good reluctant heroes
- Roma: Rant on gypsies and nomadic peoples
- Rouge Angles Of Satin: Several rants on grammar and words
- Save Both Worlds: Rant on juxtaposed worlds
- Science Fiction Versus Fantasy: Science fiction and fantasy hybrids
- Sci Fi Ghetto: Why I get impatient with clichéd fantasy. <— Limyaael's original rant.
- Sex Tropes: Sex in fantasy novels
- Shallow Love Interest: Designated Love Interest rant
- Shape Shifting: there are a few
- Slap Slap Kiss: aversion: Non-bickering, non-love at first sight relationships
- Standard Fantasy Setting: On escaping Tolkien clichés
- Take That: Fantasy of excess: Rant on Jordan and Goodkind
- The Amazon: Sounds of the jungle
- The Empire: writing empires part one and two
- The Runaway: Fantasy teenage runaways
- The Wesley: Author's Darlings
- True Neutral: Neutral character rant
- TV Genius Rant on genius characters
- Twin Tropes: Twins rant
- Unreliable Narrator: Showing your viewpoint character as not 100% correct
- Urban Fantasy: On urban fantasy
- Wangst: aversion: Rants on angst
- Winged Humanoid: Rant on winged humanoids
Tropes used in the rants themselves
- Atheism: Limyaael herself.
- Dissimile/NOT!: Usually in the form of: "That's totally original. Only not."
- Genre Savvy: Very.
- Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Averted.
- I prefer strong female characters anyway, by which I mean “female characters who have their own minds and do not spend the whole time obsessed with men, either pining for them or putting them down.” They don’t have to be warriors for me to empathize with them. They can certainly be mothers who love their children fiercely. The most important relationships in their lives can certainly be with men.
- Sliding Scale Of Idealism Vs Cynicism: She's on the cynical end.
- Take That: see above.
- Third Person Person
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