forum WHat type of fantasy have you always wanted to read? :)

Started January 27, 2018 by @T1mmy

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I wanna know what kind of work of fiction you've always wanted to read! Maybe you can inspire someone, or tell us what you're working on! Anything goes! :D

Fantasy for an older age range without romance.

XD wouldn't that be nice? I hope one day you will read such a book. :)

I'd love to read more fantasy with genderfluid or nonbinary characters - more representation, damnit, even if I've got to write it myself! Or just more queer characters in general, really. I'll take either or.

I've begun thinking about a world where the magical universe meets the modern age universe, I think it could turn out well if I do it right. I've toyed with the idea of romance but I honestly want the two main characters as friends first, if a romance works out and takes shape so be it.

I want to see more books with already established relationships between main characters where they don't break up for whatever reason. also more poly triads and more dragons. i know we have a lot of dragons, but more dragons on the main character's side. i don't want eragon and dragonriders of pern to be the only books i know like that

i agree with @FantaPop i would also like to see women as the protagonist maybe even a gay woman

A gay, poc, woman !!!!!!!!

@Morgann there are a lot of fantasy stories out there with women as protagonists, there's one that comes to mind about a black princess. it's something to do with dragon trafficking, but i keep forgetting the name.

Read "Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard". The main cast of characters a gender fluid person, along with a super diverse cast of characters.

I generally avoid writing about topics that I have no personal experience in. If you want to make your story more appealing to a wider audience by introducing characters and places with more exotic reliability than you have to be careful to ensure you research it well.

I've always wanted to read a fantasy novel about exploration. A mysterious world without an antagonist beyond nature itself. The journey to discover hidden secrets that not only shock the characters but the reader as well. In the novel I'm currently planning to write I've included several elements of this. Advancing this plot opens up the story about half-way through. Instead of simply being about the main characters it becomes about the world itself.

I love fantasies set in an alternate medieval world that are so detailed you feel like you're actually there. Many of my favorite fantasies focus less on magic and mythical creatures, which I personally do not write about, and more on capturing the rich medieval feel of the setting.

A fantasy book for an older age range that's not about a whiny teenage girl, royalty, romance, and melodrama. I swear that's all you can find these days.

@alice gods wouldn't that be nice? I want more fantasy that doesn't include more sex scenes than a brief mention, if at all. Or focused on best friends instead of pairing off characters the first time they meet.

I think a novel where everyone knows about magic, except it's not in some medieval setting. Get over it everyone, 21rst century people can know magic exists. Deal with it.

Worlds with magic and science coexisting in the modern era do exist. The problem is that we writers are forced to determine how we want them to interact. If healing magic is well-known then did medical science have any reason to advance? If powerful spells that destroy armies exist then what does that mean for military technology? These are questions that we are forced to answer in order to make our world building believable. Since magic simply doesn't exist in our own reality, we are forced to imagine results that we have no frame of reference for. You must understand that the 21st century wouldn't be the 21st century we know at all if magic was commonplace and we must invent an answer for how magic alters the reality of the world. Simply inserting magic while keeping the exact same cultural and historical circumstances of our modern world is extremely difficult to do believably.

Fantasy worlds not based on medieval Europe would be nice, even when I think one isn't basically magic forest Europe it seems to become it or ends up based there later on

makes sense @The Enigmatic Wayfarer

Slice-of-life fantasy based off of the lives of the common folk.

@FantaPop (your first post) You should read Rick Riordan’s books (like Magnus Chase as Luna said; that’s probably my favorite of his series). His characters are all so diverse: different races, religions, and like you said you wanted, different sexualities and gender identifications.

http://riordan.wikia.com/wiki/Category:LGBT_Characters

“You matter…I will do whatever I can to understand and accurately include you in my stories, in my world. I will not erase you.” -Rick Riordan

Oh wow this is an old thread, but if we're reviving it then I'd really love to see some fantasies that don't take place in a Medieval Europe based setting. There's so many extremely fascinating places and time periods that would make for a great setting for a Fantasy.

Something that doesn't have English Knights (tm) as the main focus, or at least base them off of some other military like the Ottomans or the French Winged Hussars or LITERALLY ANYTHING WITH A DIFFERENT MILITARY STRATEGY OR CULTURE.

Fantasy where it doesn't seem like fantasy. It's a slow reveal that the world the characters are in isn't normal, even to their pov.

Fantasy where it doesn't seem like fantasy. It's a slow reveal that the world the characters are in isn't normal, even to their pov.

Oh I like that!

I'm currently writing a realistic fantasy, whole new world and whatnot.