YMMV / Limyaael's Fantasy Rants

• Accidental Aesop: Limyaael suggests "morals" for books she had read that contain Bury Your Gays, such as "Damn, love someone of your own gender and you are screwed" or "Well, love someone of your own gender, and your partner will die. But don’t worry, we’ll get you another one!"
• Angst Dissonance: Limyaael thinks characters who complain about things without actually acting to change them often cause this.
• Designated Evil: Limyaael talks about how, too often, authors will treat character traits like selfishness, cynicism, seeking vengeance or doing the wrong thing when they couldn't have possibly known it was wrong as crimes that have to be redeemed, leading to the characters getting a contrived redemption that gives them a fake personality.
• Designated Hero: How Limyaael thinks of empires who are portrayed as good even when they are conquering other places.
• Designated Villain: How Limyaael thinks of characters who want money from the hero, say, to pay a debt - especially when they clearly need the money themselves and they have been unusually compassionate and patient towards the hero but eventually could not wait any longer.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: How Limyaael feels about stories where the protagonist becomes the ruler of some place as a reward for their heroism, despite having previously shown inexperience and immaturity that would likely lead to them running their kingdom into the ground.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • She has lamented that George R. R. Martin doesn't get the popularity he deserves. Ask and ye shall receive.
  • Or when she talked about cliffhangers: She mentioned how people complained that cliffhangers in A Song of Ice and Fire felt like a TV show.
• Lemon Stu: Limyaael hates when characters' virtue and perfection of their relationship is shown by the character's true love or lover of the right gender having perfect sexual performance.
• Sequelitis: Why Limyaael warns writers to not give into the temptation to write sequels to novels they intended as stand-alone.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: Limyaael doesn't like this trope, comparing it unfavorably with A Song of Ice and Fire where a lot happens in the first 200 pages.

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