Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Who doesn’t love some good old-fashioned trope therapy? We’ve all seen these narrative archetypes reshaped and repackaged a thousand times, but some just stay fresh longer than others. We’ll still ...

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This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered cliché in the history of gaming and why the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the ...

A clever and unexpected take on the “damsel in distress” trope, “Damsel” starring Millie Bobby Brown demolishes the cliché, albeit with some flaws. Elodie, played by Brown, is the first daughter of ...