History YMMV / JirelOfJoiry

** The DefiledForever trope is also avoided. Jirel isn't married, is said to have had several lovers in the past, and the stories never try to use SlutShaming against her or pain her as any less awesome because of it. At least where Pav and Andred are concerned, their respective chapters make it clear that consent is important and that [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty the way they treat Jirel]] is ''not'' okay.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It can be hard for modern readers to really appreciate how novel the series was at the time, given that the ActionGirl has become such an innate part of the genre that most fantasy games lets the player [[PurelyAestheticGender outright choose the gender of their protagonist.]] [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools However,]] while the stories may come across as somewhat {{Troperiffic}} today, they are still considered ''good'' stories.

** The DefiledForever trope is also avoided. Jirel isn't married, is said to have had several lovers in the past, and the stories never try to use SlutShaming against her or pain her as any less awesome because of it. At least where Pav and Andred are concerned, their respective chapters make it clear that consent is important and that [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty the way they treat Jirel]] is ''not'' okay.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Hard to say if it was intentional, but after the QuestionableConsent in the ''Black God'' duology, ''The Dark Land'' and ''Hellsgarde'' both have Jirel set clear boundries and treat the villains' sexual assaults as inherently heinous acts.

* FoeYay: Jirel has had this with quite a few of her adversaries.
** Her "relationship" with Guillaume is a rather dark example, as it starts with him forcefully kissing her after conquring her castle, and later has her giving him a KissOfDeath which damns his soul to a realm worse than Hell. (Though she later regrets and undoes this punishment.)
** Jarasme has quite the chemistry with the heroine, with both women being utterly ''obsessed'' with defeating each other. She's quite attractive to boot, and the attention this recieves in the narration almost gives the impression that Jirel is EatingTheEyeCandy.
** Pav and Andred both have quite a thing for Jirel, [[VillainousCrush though this is very one-sided.]]
** Jirel calls Guy of Garlot "pretty" to his face, and may even have been planning to seduce her as part of her plan. [[NotDistractedByTheSexy Guy however shows no interest in her whatsoever.]]
** While it really doesn't have time to go anywhere, Jirel and Northwest Smith develop quite a mutual appreciation for each other during their brief time together. They do however team up pretty early and cease being foes at all.

* TooGoodToLast: Only received half the amount of stories her Northwest Smith tales got, and there's just enough material to give the character some personality and a definitive style.

** Overall, the series strikes a good balance of making Jirel a badass who triumphs at the end, [[EarnYourHappyEnding but only after tons of physical and psycological strain.]] This becomes all the more impressive when you consider how many later FeministFantasy heroines have fallen into the traps of becoming either a FauxActionGirl or a BoringInvincibleHero.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It can be hard for modern readers to really appreciate how novel the series was at the time, given that the ActionGirl has become such an innate part of the genre that most fantasy games lets the player [[PurelyAestheticGender outright choose the gender of their protagonist.]] [[TropesAreNotBad However,]] while the stories may come across as somewhat {{Troperiffic}} today, they are still considered ''good'' stories.

* NightmareFuel: Being a DarkFantasy taking cues from Creator/HPLovecraft, this naturally pops up from time to time. When it happens... let's just say it lives up to [[SurrealHorror the "weird" part]] of WeirdFiction.

* ContinuityLockout: ''Jirel Meets Magic'' features a CallBack or two to ''Black God's Kiss'', but -- unlike ''Black God's Shadow'' -- it doesn't explain the events of that story at all, leaving any reader who started here [[note]] For unknown reasons, at least one collection ''did'' in fact start with ''Jirel Meets Magic'' [[/note]] in the dark.

* ValuesResonance: Overall, the series strikes a good balance of making Jirel a badass who triumphs at the end, [[EarnYourHappyEnding but only after tons of physical and psycological strain.]] This becomes all the more impressive when you consider how many later FeministFantasy heroines have fallen into the traps of becoming either a FauxActionGirl or a BoringInvincibleHero.

* TooGoodToLast: Only received half the amount of stories her Northwest Smith tales got, and there's just enough material to give the character some personality and a definitive style.

* ContinuityLockout: ''Jirel Meets Magic'' features a CallBack or two to ''Black God's Kiss'', but -- unlike ''Black God's Shadow'' -- it doesn't explain the events of that story at all, leaving any reader who started here [[note]] For unknown reasons, at least one collection ''did'' in fact include ''Jirel Meets Magic'' first [[/note]] in the dark.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It can be hard for modern readers to really appreciate how novel the series was at the time, given that the ActionGirl has become such an innate part of the genre that most fantasy games lets the player [[PurelyAestheticGender outright choose the gender of their protagonist.]] [[TropesAreNnotBad However,]] while the stories may come across as somewhat {{Troperiffic}} today, they are still considered ''good'' stories.

* FoeYay: Jarasme has quite the chemistry with the heroine, and she's quite attractive to boot.