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Oct 6, 2023·edited Oct 6, 2023Liked by The Brothers Krynn

Same for me. Very well stated. I agree with everything you said.

Razorfist had a more energetic presentation that Ethan Van Sciver. With searching we could find more who said the same. How we got here will not matter. Genre will not matter in the greater scheme. We are unrepentant heroes face with hard choices or sometimes no choice.

Warm up the zap guns. Get on the zeppelin. We’re going to slay dragons.

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Exactly, and though I like EVS a little more than RF you are right about Razorfist's presentation.

As to the last bit, it is very poetic, there are indeed dragons to slay! Every genre must be saved and must be preserved if in different ways, and by different writers but these writers should be united, allied against not only woke, but also the dragons that menace their genres.

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Excellent work - keep speaking truth with grace and wit💖

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Thanks! Appreciate the support!

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What would you have called it, if not Iron age?

I like the name Iron age, because it speaks of hard workers creating long lasting products that call to those who are tried of modern things.

I enjoyed Dragonlance, but it became the thing to watch, to play, to read.

The same with other big name products.

I rather like reading things like StarShatter (@Blackknight), @TSBOL's, tales, @Themanbehindthescsreen.

My own writings speak of a different time and place where men are men, women are women and you live by your own means.

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I'd have called it the 'Classical Age' so that we aspire after the Golden Age, whilst still differentiating from it, as Classical is not lesser than Silver or Gold, while Iron is of lesser quality and in time does tend to rust.

I suppose when you say it that way, Iron has its own merit as hard-workers are what we need in these genres.

But I'm quibbling, I'm French so it isn't for me to decide what the Anglosphere wants. If Anglo-Saxons want Iron, Iron they should have ;)

As to StarShatter (@Blackknight), @TSBOL's, tales, @Themanbehindthescsreen. I'll check them out, and it sounds like your stories have a good mentality behind them.

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Very good article. One thing, the word Corporatism means something far different to the definition your using. The word you're looking for is Corpratocracy. No offense, just a little help. Peace

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Oh thanks for the correction, I definitely appreciate it sorry for the slip-up there will have to correct that. No offence could possibly be taken from so kindly a correction, even more peace to you mon ami.

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A rather fascinating article.

Fantasy may not be my preferred genre, however I do wish for the mystery genre to return to its glory, and to its traditional form. I fell in love with the genre when my grandmother gave me my first book on the great detective Sherlock Holmes. From that moment, I could not get over the great classics, such as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple. But the modern stories have left me rather dour. They are but the same story, repeated in a shallow way.

The television has also hampered my love for the genre. None have captured the spirit of the famed detective, since "The Hounds of the Baskervilles" I couldn't get enough of it. Once a year, we would sit down and enjoy the story. It makes me rather wistful.

Finally, I opted for writing my own stories, to honor my Grandmother, and to inspire the heart of the Mystery genre, and to share my love with my readers, and pray that many may come to love the stories once more.

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Your grandmother sounds wonderful mon ami, I do think that mystery is a genre that's been abused and left wanting in recent years. Especially in the past few years, tbh I've not finished reading all the Sherlock stories, and am not terribly fond of many of Christie's Poirot stories (those few I've read) as to Marple I do like her.

If you love the genre so much, then I'm sure you can rescue it my friend. As all those in existence are important.

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Very well stated. I agree with everything you said.

I love old school Punisher but when it came time to write my first story, I wrote a story about an Anti-hero who is becoming a proper hero.

Your commentary on needing more Doc Savage and Superman types of heroes sticks with me.

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Hahaha funny enough, I've one traditional Gawain type hero in a story of mine, and a King Arthur type.

But then I've two anti-hero stories where they're doing the same as your anti-hero; going from punisher to superman. It is an interesting journey, and Redemption is one of the most important themes.

Do you have the story hereon Substack? If so could you share it? I should very much like to see it and share it with my brother.

The iconic heroes who inspire us have become disregarded but they must be revived, and made fashionable again. I'm very glad it stuck with you, that is more than I had hoped for with this small article.

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I don't have that one on SubStack, I actually just published it yesterday on Amazon.

Your characters sound like they're my kinda characters, I'm going to have to check them out. Are they here on SubStack?

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I've two stories hereon substack, neither one is complete. One has a more Gawainian character though the story is a horror-mystery, the other story is about an anti-hero dad in the mould of Wolf & Cub, who has to bond with his son and over time become the 'hero' his son believes him to be and for the son in time to become a hero in his own right.

https://canadianculturecorner.substack.com/p/bear-and-cub The Father-Son story

https://canadianculturecorner.substack.com/p/chapter-i-the-storm-of-storms The horror story

Feel free to link me your stories, I'd be glad to check them out and review them if you want.

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Don Bluth. Yes! You asked what Disney princess was my favorite. My favorite isn't a Disney princess at all: it's the Swan Princess. I have an essay on that somewhere, but not on my substack. I'll have to find it.

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Absolument, you're very right about the genre being subverted beyond belief. I have a video planned or series of videos dissecting this very phenomenon, how it happened and why it was never good.

But glad to have made you laugh my friend, as to July's focus on tools and avenues, yeah he is very much an inspiration in that regard.

As to the genre, it is simply that the fantasy genre has been in the mire longer than others, there's been more time for those obsessed with filth to plant their feet in there, and for the corpos to take control of the genre.

And the Iron Age is key, and has been a long-time coming as you said.

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