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Daniel M. Ford@soundingline.bsky.social |
I wonder what the market actually is for fantasy that _isn't_ world changing, that _isn't_ about characters standing athwart the levers of history. Because it feels like all I want to write anymore is "weird little guys trying to get through a week" and I dunno
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Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
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My favorite weird little guy trying to get through a week.
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The Male Hysteric
@graay.bsky.social
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I feel like if you want this you need to look more at stuff targeted for women. Cozy is new-ish and romance has always been there.
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@burstaholic.bsky.social
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"Slice-of-life" stories are a big genre, sure
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@burstaholic.bsky.social
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If you don't already know about Travis Baldree, read "Legends and Lattes" immediately ❤️
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Abby
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Same, and there’s a precedent for it (Terry Pratchett) but most post GoT/ASOIAF fantasy has had a political rise-and-fall-of-kingdoms focus
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Quite Unusual
@quiteunusual.bsky.social
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That's called 'slice of life' it;s populr in Japan at least.
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Cacao Byproduct
@cacaobyproduct.bsky.social
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I would love more fantasy like that and sci fi I tire of every protagonist being THE CHOSEN ONE
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Peppermint Goddess
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That sounds like it would be a fun read. I get a little exhausted reading Chosen One Changes the World stuff. Like, don't they ever have to clip their toenails or do laundry?
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Melissa DuVant
@melissaduvant.bsky.social
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Cozy fantasy is going through a whole *thing* right now. Trad-fantasy but smaller stakes is still around - I suspect Dungeon Meshi is going to inspire some people, and that's very much "weird little guys trying to get through some stuff" (and explore the dungeon)
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Nissan al-Gaib
@coolsword.bsky.social
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I am desperate for this type of fantasy
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Sean Kozma
@seankozma.bsky.social
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10/10 would read
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kate
@bookhaven.bsky.social
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This is exactly why I'm reading cozy sf and cozy fantasy these days. Exhausted with the world changing/shaking plots. More Legends & Lattes type stuff, plz
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Heroes Peak Podcast
@heroespeak.bsky.social
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Don't know if you enjoy manga or anime but this is exactly type of story in Frieren Beyond Journey's End and it's hot right now. Leisurely paced story after the big adventure where the protagonist is mostly looking to collect spell books & retrospectively understand her lost compatriots
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Hoplite The Wallaby
@armoredscout.bsky.social
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The miller and the mason who are in fact endlessly privy to world changing shit but it just kinda passes them by Our perspective never leaves these two bit characters
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Lina Bee
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes on and things of that nature are so wholesome. I really love stories about friendship. Friendship can be working through a hard time. It doesn’t have to be THE world so much as YOUR/THEIR world and that can be any setting
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Brian Edits Things
@brian-rowe.bsky.social
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I love hearing stuff like this because I have such a hard time writing fantasy with global stakes. Mostly because even in my most sparkly self-absorbed power fantasies, I still can't imagine being actually able to save the world from anything.
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Brian Urlacher (aka Grant Forks)
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Laurance Watt Evans somehow managed to make stories out of really small stuff. There was often a tenuous connection to bigger stuff in the Ethshar novels, but that stuff was boring. The small stuff was boring too, but sometimes in a charming way.
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Daniel M. Ford
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"But stakes!" yeah, the stakes for a spear-carrier trying to live through a battle he doesn't understand the causes of are still PRETTY HIGH if you ask me
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Udge
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Be encouraged by e.g. the film „My Dinner With André“, nearly two hours of dialogue between two actors on a single set, a critical and popular success. Write your books well and they will make their own audience.
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Katherine Catmull
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Sounds like A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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Chillbo Hangins
@fivethree.bsky.social
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Oh the market’s there! Legends & Lattes is a great example, the stakes extend no higher than the fate of a coffee shop and it thrilled people (myself included).
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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“Bilbo’s previous dinner parties”
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Kristin Pratt
@prattkristin.bsky.social
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I’d love for more "weird little guys trying to get through a week" stories. There’s plenty of drama/tension/stakes in everyday life, and all of those little everyday decisions and battles are what build character.
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suiwise gamgee
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Man I feel this. I’m just writing about two guys actively dodging plot (aka world shifting politics) and just trying to live and have relationships and travel. Not everyone has the power to change the world and those stories are interesting too (especially in these trying times)
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Weaz
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idk how you feel about him or his work so i'm sorry if you're not a fan, but there's a book of Joe Hill short stories, and the more fantasy-leaning ones really are just weird little guys getting through the week, and i loved them
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