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I'm curious, is it the setting? The times frame? The tropes and trappings? What turns you off about fantasy?

Like I've been reading a bit of wuxia and xianxia recently, which is sort of like chinese low fantasy and high fantasy respectively? What about more like Narnia or Oz? I guess Narnia is sort of medieval adjacent, tho... Wonderland maybe?

I can get into sci-fi horror there are some of the "love death and robots" episodes that still haunt me years later, but I've been craving more hopeful stuff like star trek recently.

I don't really know? Maybe the tropes. I've tried LOTR and GoT. Plus various other smaller authors. The only fantasy I kind of like is urban fantasy like Rivers of London. Even fantasy movies I'm pretty meh on.

The Wuxia/Xianxia I've seen doesn't interest me but that could be because it is the shows and I hate how fake the characters are.

I am more drawn to less hopeful stuff when I'm feeling down. Probably not the best coping mechanism. 😅

Hm, that's interesting, You've tried both ends of the classic fantasy scale. I'm trying to think of less standard fantasy. Did you ever give discworld a read?

I've read The Colour of Magic and didn't hate it. But I felt no need to read the others. I need to find some more animal centric fantasy to tap into my horse girl childhood. Lol.

Fair enough, de gustibus non est disputandum.

I cant speak too much to animal centric. I watched the animals of farthing wood when I was way too young, and seeing talking animals die has made all but the happiest, edge-free media unwatchable to me. You show me Ed Stark getting his head lopped off, and I'm like "Whoa, bummer" but you tell me about Aslan biting the dust, and I am a wreck for days...

I just realized the other two fantasy kind of stories I loved. Watership Down and The Secret of NIMH. I'm a true animal girl and I doubt there are many adult options of those. :(

Honestly, books don't often hit me hard. I've only gotten got by a few like A Man Called Over or Never Let Me Go. It's gotta be made to be tearjerkers (or I have to be in the worst mood).

Watership down.

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Well, that's me with the thousand yard stare and childhood flashbacks.

I loved that book. And Bambi and The Plague Dogs.....you know...I like weird books about animals having fucked up lives. That's a therapy session if I could afford them. Lol.

That's interesting to me. Because superheroes, at least the ones with magic, would count as urban fantasy I think? Like Thor is definately more towards traditional fantasy. But characters like Doctor Strange are more urban fantasy. And even elements of Captain America have some fantasy to them.

I can see that. And I love the MCU (to a point). I guess I see them more as scifi?

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