How do I break out of those weird tropes but still write something with gnomes and shit? What does it look like when wizards control the means of production?
How do I break out of those weird tropes but still write something with gnomes and shit? What does it look like when wizards control the means of production?
Cuz the tropes of the genre originated from two old British dudes who had a fetishized version of Medieval Europe. Even progressive fantasy authors fall on using these tropes, the clever ones work around or with them in smart ways sometimes, but it’s also easy just to fall back on them sometimes when you just want to write up some literary junk food.