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My daughter likes girls. My wife wants to help. She suggests Hello Kitty-themed attire, because "women like that."

This is a category of fiction where characters have real-world problems, such as cancer, dealing with middle age and arguing with relatives.

Why would anyone mourn this? First of all, genre fiction, that is, something like romantasy, is from a much older literary tradition. Monsters, ghosts, people getting horribly killed, obnoxious gods running around...this is the good shit and has been since Gilgamesh.

"Readers lack taste these days," is one of the rallying cries of literary fiction.

Screw that noise, noob. Talk to me when your main character solves a cozy mystery with the aid of her cat, or your cancer-ridden MC gets around it by uploading his consciousness into a gunslinger robot with antimatter slugs. Cool stories sell.

As a game making person, I had to try Marvel Rivals. It's a hero shooter like Overwatch; the characters talk and make Marvel jokes to each other, with the exception of Groot, who perpetually introduces himself.