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AWFUL Fantasy: Some form of minority, usually a woman, blunders through a nominally fantasy world experiencing exactly the same kinds of prejudices that the AWFUL author believes are experienced by the minority in real life, but through the power of wishful thinking, deus ex machina, and genre ignorance, defeats the prejudice and makes a better world where everyone feels nice and is nice and isn't mean ever again.
I know the AWFL - Affluent White Female Liberal version. Does the U stand for Ugly?
Urban usually
Ah, Potayto face, patahto face then.
I swear woke storytelling is the same two or three plot points
MOST storytelling is the same two or three plot points. Hero's Journey. Heroine's Non-Journey. It's the window dressing and themes that make the tales unique. And woke storytelling only has two or three of those, too.
True. I’d say woke storytelling is extremely predictable since you know women won’t be cast in a bad light or whatever group is trendy. You know the straight white make will be evil