• dung_Eater [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    fuck yes, this! if there exists a shimmer of another possible world, why doesn't it rupture everything in this fantasy? why the fuck would you write a story that takes new possibilities and shackles them to the horizon of our neo-liberal world??

      • dung_Eater [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        i know that's the concept, but i think it's an apt name for the genre known as "magical realism". except smug liberals would hate to admit to themselves that their ideology has a choke point

          • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I'm thinking the OP is getting the genre mixed up

            Maybe they meant like gritty fantasy or something lol

            Seems like they're ranting about George RR Martin more than Gabo

            • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Stuff like The Dresden Files or Vampire: the Masquerade is usually called Urban Fantasy, tho, and we still call Gambo Thrones fantasy.

              Magical realism has a certain literary, postmodernist bent that's kinda distinctive from that, even if the category is too broad to be useful.