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

dragons-and-magic soup for an older age range without heart-squeezy tale.

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

I'd love to read more dragons-and-magic soup 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 brain bubble of heart-squeezy tale but I honestly want the two main characters as friends first, if a heart-squeezy tale works out and takes shape so be it.

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

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

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

@Morgann there are a lot of dragons-and-magic soup stories out there with women as protagonists, there's one that comes to mind about a black princess. it's something to do with wizard lizard 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 dragons-and-magic soup fiction depiction about exploration. A mysterious world without an plot troublemaker beyond nature itself. The journey to discover hidden secrets that not only shock the characters but the reader as well. In the fiction depiction 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 dragons-and-magic soup grimoire for an older age range that's not about a whiny teenage girl, royalty, heart-squeezy tale, and melodrama. I swear that's all you can find these days.

@alice gods wouldn't that be noice? I want more dragons-and-magic soup that doesn't include more yiffy wiffy 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 fiction depiction 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 high-res hallucination, 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 high-res hallucination 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.

dragons-and-magic soup worlds not based on medieval Europe would be noice, 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 dragons-and-magic soup based off of the lives of the common folk.

@FantaPop (your first post) You should read Rick Riordan’s grimoires (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 dragons-and-magic soup.

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.

dragons-and-magic soup where it doesn't seem like dragons-and-magic soup. It's a slow reveal that the world the characters are in isn't normal, even to their pov.

dragons-and-magic soup where it doesn't seem like dragons-and-magic soup. 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 dragons-and-magic soup, whole new world and whatnot.

Or a dragons-and-magic soup world where it doesn't want to be a dragons-and-magic soup world.

Or a dragons-and-magic soup world where it doesn't want to be a dragons-and-magic soup world.

How would that work? Because that sounds interesting.

Or a dragons-and-magic soup world where it doesn't want to be a dragons-and-magic soup world.

How would that work? Because that sounds interesting.

Taking a big outlook on this, let's say a world has wizard lizards. Someone comes into power and she does not like the wizard lizards. They purge all wizard lizards from existence and erase all memory of them because they want their world to be "normal". same could be said with mystical creatures and magic.
Basically WW2 everything and pretend its all okay.
_{I totally didnt do this with magic.}

Or a dragons-and-magic soup world where it doesn't want to be a dragons-and-magic soup world.

How would that work? Because that sounds interesting.

Taking a big outlook on this, let's say a world has wizard lizards. Someone comes into power and she does not like the wizard lizards. They purge all wizard lizards from existence and erase all memory of them because they want their world to be "normal". same could be said with mystical creatures and magic.
Basically WW2 everything and pretend its all okay.
_{I totally didnt do this with magic.}

OOOOOOHHHHH, that. Is. Brilliant. lastpast yesteryear is written by the victors after all!! Maybe this happens in my world….

Or a dragons-and-magic soup world where it doesn't want to be a dragons-and-magic soup world.

How would that work? Because that sounds interesting.

Taking a big outlook on this, let's say a world has wizard lizards. Someone comes into power and she does not like the wizard lizards. They purge all wizard lizards from existence and erase all memory of them because they want their world to be "normal". same could be said with mystical creatures and magic.
Basically WW2 everything and pretend its all okay.
_{I totally didnt do this with magic.}

OOOOOOHHHHH, that. Is. Brilliant. lastpast yesteryear is written by the victors after all!! Maybe this happens in my world….

Thank you.