@aeronlangheim3462
I think the thing that Pulp fantasy has that a lot of modern fantasy is missing is that there is a feeling of unapologetic over-the-top-ness to it. It's not ironic, it's not trying to deconstruct itself or be something else, it's just unapologetically itself. There's a certain level of confidence to it that I feel like a lot of modern fantasy lacks. It's genuine.
@Mister-Thirteen
Pulp Fiction was Confidently fantasy. It didn't need to be meta, or worry about how it would read in another medium if adapted. It didn't try to use humor to uncut its own genre. It didn't try to make characters sound like the audience in cadence and prose. Its didn't build its entire narrative on the desire to meditate on a single theme or topic but rather touched upon them when appropriate. Pulp Fiction got to be Fiction in a way that modern fiction is often at odds with. Because Modern fiction is trying so hard to be taken seriously that it undermines it own imagination.
@argondrolf785
“Fantasy is a lot like Rock and Roll, once you go in knowing what to expect, it stops being rock.” -Michael Moorcock
@ericlin2611
As someone currently writing online web fiction, it struck me how many similarities there are with pulp fiction, which I was too young to have ever gotten into. Both tend to have many amateur writers due to a lower barrier of entry, both use the cheapest wildly available medium of the time, and both are community focused. One with paper and letters, the other websites and comment sections. Web fiction even seems to share the 'low brow' nature of pulp fiction, simple weird fantasy stories made for an audience looking mainly for wish fufilment, yet sometimes you find something that is much more.
@hugoleonardoamaral586
I've been reading a lot of pulp fiction lately. The sheer sense of fun and entertaiment these stories provide is unmatched. Not to mention the absurd productivity of these writers, releasing story after story after story. It was really a very special period in literature.
@HÆL1X
Fun Fact: Gary Gygax explicitly designed Dungeons & Dragons around the adventures in pulp fantasy over the adventures in books like Lord of the Rings. Gygax preferred the idea that heroes would accrue powerful treasures, rather than try to destroy one. Other designers, like the equally important Dave Arneson, were able to get Tolkien-esque elements included, sometimes with contention from Gary
@pastelpickel8547
As someone who loves writing and world building this video helped remind me that not every fantasy adventure I write has to have an extensive magic system or unique culture. It can just be a story about characters in fantastical situations with no explanations or expectations.
@rambysophistry1220
I just watched the intro, and I am gonna predict what killed pulp fiction is the death of whimsy. Not just whimsy, but a particular kind of whimsy. The kind of whimsy that blurs daydream and fantasy and shower thoughts.
@abcdef27669
The community those Pulp authors created was the best part of the video. Especially when you know the tragic ends of authors like Lovecraft and Robert Erwin Howard. If Lovecraft was a Fantasy character, he would probably fit the "Master" archetype, with all the other writers he helped to create, thanks to his own universe.
@belowthestoneofficial1476
Showed my dad this. Hes a great writer and book collector, and got me into pulp fiction and fantasy. He's the reason i do dnd and game development. Shared this video with him and hopefully it gets him back onto writing.
@Jodipo
Ah yes, love a good Sword and Sorcery story.
@marlutte
I can proudly say that the fiction I am writing is not only heavily inspired by pulp fiction fantasy, but I've taken elements from my philosophical studies to implement contemporary aspects in it. When you write stories of a world of a society of industrialized Demon Hunting, you are bound to ask yourself questions through your characters! But I'll say pulp is having a revival in the indie scene, specially through narrative based tabletop games.
@SporgyTheMenace
14:40 Fun fact: Kuttner and Moore met because of their association with Lovecraft, Kuttner thought Moore was a man before he met her in person. So that's funny
@andrewbidwell6421
I think this is why manga and anime got popular in the west as well. There’s a pulp fiction aspect of them that fills this void.
@brennenwilde4303
I’ve always wondered why as attention spans have grown shorter, as a culture we haven’t gravitated back around to short stories. We instead have latched onto short summaries of longer stories. Instead of reading or listening to a half hour audio book, we put on (in the background) hours long videos that summarize gigantic stories.
@filipsperl
I was waiting for you to mention the SCP foundation forums. That whole cooperative project is basically the same thing as the magazine, except the authors don't get paid. Anyone can potentially get an article on there and make it part of the whole canon, which I think is very welcoming! And people might even recognize you if you write well.
@TheSleepyowlet
"Who ever heard of..." Me. I read those as a teen scrounging books together in second-hand stores. A lot of these were re-published in various fantasy anthologies way later. And I'm telling you, Black God’s Kiss is one of the most disturbing things I ever read. Yikes. Loved it, though. The writing community thing - that's fandoms now. Fanfic has sort of filled that niche; with the writers taking original IPs and often warping them until they are nigh on unrecognizable. They take things and make them their own; one zany AU at a time.
@tayz555
I was so ready for you to say Tale Foundry was becoming a magazine for pulp fiction. I got really excited
@catnip4193
My sister, a few friends, and I started a writing club on a discord server two years ago. It’s a small group, and we don’t always write (sometimes game dev, sometimes music), but it’s always something creative and non-commercial. I look forward to it every week :)
@TheTaleFoundry