Posted on 08/21/2025 3:24:53 AM PDT by C19fan
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The con drama has been nonstop this year, as people try to launch weekend events and one, two, or nineteen things go wrong. The latest: Sinners & Stardust.
Sinners & Stardust is a weekend event that hosts an author signing and a Dark Romance Ball to celebrate the readers and authors of dark romance. At the ball, apparently many, many things went very, very wrong.
It was the top few trending topics on Threads, in fact.
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I remember seeing a video about a Chad. He detailed how is he is constantly groped by women.
Sick.
Sad.
Looking for a definition of the subject here, one comment at your link says of Dark Fantasy, it’s not smut, but “fantasy that is usually gritty and doesn’t pull its punches when telling a story.”
That’s something. Still not very helpful. What are the characteristics here? Sci-fi, fantasy with an unhappy ending, alternative biologies, time travelers, or just trash with some fiery fx for your brain (as if today’s wordsmiths could evoke that)?
So I drove by google’s AI which says of DF: “...dark fantasy takes the fantastical elements of traditional fantasy and combines them with the darker, more unsettling aspects of horror, creating a unique and often thought-provoking subgenre.” Sounds like gothic to me, except it starts with a “normal world” that is already somewhat fantastic...and that goes pretty far back. Homer’s work was chock full of fantasy gods and monsters, and was it thought-provoking? Mmm, yeah.
Unique and thought-provoking subgenre. Any more so than Walpole, Radcliffe, Goethe, Stevenson, Stoker, Lewis, Shelley...?
For now I’ll conclude DF is degenerate gothic. Which is basically what contemporaries of the aforesaid authors said of their “dark” works.
At the link devoted to dark trash:
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LOL. Ranks (not) with “abandon hope, ye who enter here.” ;)
Clutch muh pearls while I read this, ‘kay?
W. T. A. F.
Women are so disappointing.
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