"On April 29, our district dedicated a #socialmedia post to #EndJewHatredDay. I didn’t even know the day existed, but I was pleasantly surprised to see them acknowledge it. The district posted a simple #bluesquare with a caption that read:

“End Jew Hatred Day is a time to reflect on the impact of hate and the responsibility we all share to foster respect and understanding in our communities.”

It felt nice to be seen and supported. But that feeling did not last long.

The comments on the fairly innocuous post were a cesspool of hate, ignorance and classic #antisemitic #tropes. There were claims that the #Jews must control the #school district and jokes about donations from #Israel and #AIPAC. There were threats of pulling children from the district. There was anti-Israel rhetoric and antisemitic slurs.

Seeing #antisemitism spelled out online is always horrifying, but sadly never shocking."

https://www.kveller.com/my-school-district-posted-in-support-of-jews-then-the-antisemitic-comments-started/

Fantasy with Friends: Favorite Fantasy Tropes

Briana and Krysta at Pages Unbound are hosting a fantasy discussion meme this year called Fantasy with Friends. Since fantasy is my favorite genre, I thought it would be fun to take part. This week, their question is:

What are some of your favorite fantasy tropes that you never get tired of?

I’ll be honest. I don’t pay much attention to tropes. I don’t pick books based on tropes. I don’t even pay much attention to them when I run across one while reading. I look at every book as a completely separate entity from anything else.

Unfortunately, even if there were tropes I liked and paid attention to, I would probably eventually grow tired of it. There are some parts of my life where I need things to stay the exact same (it makes it easier to keep up with everyone’s schedules and somehow remember to feed everyone and to get the kids to and from school). Then there are others where I just crave something new and different. Books fall right in the middle there. I love it when a story is new and different, but there are some things I do love. For a while, at least.

Of course there are some tropes I do generally enjoy. I like a good chosen one story, but I need the chosen one to be a complicated and complex character. I like found family, but, as a serious introvert, sometimes it feels a little stifling and I need some alone time. I sometimes enjoy a good prophecy, but it’s got to be a really good one that can be read multiple ways. Quests are always fun because I love exploring a world, but I need there to be some kind of time crunch otherwise it feels like a bunch of people frolicking around. Once upon a time I loved magical items. Fantasy had to have magical items. But that was when I was a kid and would eye the frying pan wondering if it was magical and could cook my lunch for me. As an adult, I find it tired and overused and really couldn’t care less if some fancy necklace imparts some great magic.

So, in answer to the question, no, there are no tropes I never get tired of. I eventually get tired of them all, but am more willing to circle back to some over others.

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I suspect the What If Another Woman of Romance is a trope that's become such a set staple that a story doesn't feel right without it - eventhough there are other ways to add juicy relationship drama. To romance's credit there _are_ stories that explore them. 'My' genre is not that flexible - I'm not even 5min into this crime drama, and there's already been two murders.The 'use other crimes' challenge is still largely unanswered.

#TangDynastyOccultMysteries #tropes #Wuxia #CDrama

Der #Börsenverein hat ein PDF mit der sog. #GermanTropesList veröffentlicht. Da kann man auch im VLB die Tropes listen lassen (natürlich insbesondere bei #NewAdult). Bei German dachte ich spontan, ah, dann haben sie das jetzt alles umbenannt.
Weit gefehlt: Es sind weiterhin alles englische Begriffe 😅
Wen es interessiert:
https://www.boersenverein.de/interessengruppen/ig-produktmetadaten/best-practices/

#Autor_innenleben #autorenleben #tropes

Of course C-drama land has the levelled up version of the Darth Vader choke-hold!

#BurningFlames #tropes #Xianxia #CDrama

"The ‘#FinalSolution to the #JewishQuestion’ was a euphemism used by #Nazis in 1942, after they had agreed to exterminate all #Jewish people in #Europe.

By the end of the #Holocaust and the Second #WorldWar, just three years later, six million had been murdered - roughly two thirds of #European #Jewry.

[...]#Irish Times Security Correspondent #ConorGallagher said the one and a half minute video posted by #CllrSutcliffe contained a mixture of “#AI slop and the most vile, #antisemetic language”.

“It starts off with a clip of of #Hitler saying that they warned us about the Jewish people and what they were going to do to the world, before listing a series of well-worn antisemitic #tropes, such as ‘the #Jews are behind the banking industry’, ‘media degeneracy in #Hollywood’ and the so-called ‘#whitereplacementtheory’,” he explained.

“Before escalating from there and saying that we need a ‘real Final Solution’ and calling the Jewish people the ‘spawn of Satan’.”

https://www.newstalk.com/news/holocaust-2261557

Meanwhile, for your amusement, a study about the depiction of geologists in movies (and the shortage of singing or dancing involved in those depictions)

Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.70014

#Geology #TheMovieGotItWrong #Tropes