Fantasy should get weird and eclectic again. Many writers get so obsessed with minute worldbuilding details that they have to commit to so narrow an aesthetic that it looses part of the fantastical.
The counterpoint to the male loneliness epidemic is the female grief epidemic.
You see it EVERYWHERE in the haunted eyes of women and girls, nearly all of us in mourning for the male friends, relatives, and sometimes romantic partners we’ve lost not to death, but to themselves.
Everyone talks about how CinemaSins has permanently ruined how people on the Internet engage with media, but not many people talk about how MatPat and FNAF did the same exact thing.