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Re: Modern colloquial/slang expressions in fantasy?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't give a shit, honestly. I don't give a shit about medievalism in fantasy, and I certainly don't give a shit about realism in fantasy. I just don't care. If you want to have your characters talking like 50s hipsters in a fantasy world, that's fine with me and I would totally read that (it would even be fine with me if you had them doing it in 1100s France - lord knows I love A Knight's Tale). But if it's fantasy, it's fantasy.

I'm not saying realism is bad - it can be really really cool and awesome. But it's not essential to fantasy - certainly there's no necessary connection between fantasy and ersatz-medievialism, and there's plenty of fantasy that is not based on medieval Europe, but the point holds no matter what - I don't think there's any case where you need to hold to some kind of realistic depiction of our world in a fantasy work. I think what matters is coherence, especially rhetorical aesthetic coherence, and I think what matters is quality. If what you're writing hangs together with what you're trying to do, if it's well written, that's far more important than realism. At the end of the day, realistic =! good, and that's especially true in fantasy.