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Sinners & Stardust & Sexual Assault [Romantasy Trash] [ed]
Smart *itches and Trashy Books [ed] ^ | August 18, 2025 | SB Sarah

Posted on 08/21/2025 3:24:53 AM PDT by C19fan

The following post contains discussion of alleged sexual assault, stalking, and predatory behavior. Most links are to conversations on Threads, some of which contain victim blaming and defense of assault.

Please exercise caution and look after yourself before clicking links.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at smartbitchestrashybooks.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: assault; books; women
I saw a video about this published by Clownfish TV on YouTube. I guess Romantasy is chic lit set in fantasy settings but from my quick research male characters tend to exhibit Dark Triad characteristics. There was an Romfantasy event in Boston and the women attendees groaped and assaulted male attendees and authors. One man actually had an Apple Airtag planted on him so the women could follow him and continues their assault and harassment.
1 posted on 08/21/2025 3:24:53 AM PDT by C19fan
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The link is the YouTube vides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dj1Blb_Br0


2 posted on 08/21/2025 3:26:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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I remember seeing a video about a Chad. He detailed how is he is constantly groped by women.


3 posted on 08/21/2025 3:27:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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Sick.


4 posted on 08/21/2025 3:31:15 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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Sad.


5 posted on 08/21/2025 3:31:25 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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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.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 4:30:09 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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At the link devoted to dark trash:

“The following post contains discussion of alleged sexual assault, stalking, and predatory behavior...Please exercise caution and look after yourself before clicking links.”

LOL. Ranks (not) with “abandon hope, ye who enter here.” ;)

Clutch muh pearls while I read this, ‘kay?


7 posted on 08/21/2025 4:49:15 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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W. T. A. F.

Women are so disappointing.


8 posted on 08/21/2025 6:44:17 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
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