#give me a doorstopper about an entirely alien species on another planet thick with worldbuilding and I will politely decline | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

marypsue · 1 year ago

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Yanno what, I like high fantasy just fine, but the older I get and the more I read, the more I'm starting to think I like high fantasy better when it's in-universe fantasy fiction for a different story instead of like. Me, directly reading/watching/etc it.

#i like LOTR as a series and I like the peter jackson movies #but i almost like it better through the lens of a fictional character who loves it #(also real-life friends who love it but that's not what this post is about.)#i get sooooo bored so easily of constructed-world/secondary-world stories that don't have any connection back to my own #give me a doorstopper about an entirely alien species on another planet thick with worldbuilding and I will politely decline #BUT. give me a modern-no-magic-setting fictional nerd obsessed with that doorstopper? it's go time babey #fucking loved the shannara series as a youf because it was all the tolkeinesque high fantasy constructed world stuff #BUT it was set in a POST-APOCALYPTIC FUTURE of OUR WORLD #only it had been so long that almost nobody remembered!#so you'd have characters fighting these giant monsters in these abandoned wastelands of unnaturally even rock #(parking garages)#over magical artifacts whose power would kill anyone who wasn't Chosen #(radioactive material that certain families had been mutated by and developed a resistance to over generations)#fucking love that shit. that's so much fun.#but give me the same series and take out the post-apocalyptic future part and I'd never make it through two books

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