/lit/ - Literature

>>19393514
I am absolutely fucking slightly annoyed with the state of modern fantasy. Everyone is trying so hard to be different and unique, but it all ends up being the same. So much anal focus on magic systems and worldbuilding that no one gives a shit about with no attention paid to writing an actual story with characters who do things.
All fantasy these days looks like it's knocking off tolkien. And that's only because I don't play much DnD because I'm pretty sure that's the shit they're actually ripping off. They've all got the noble humans and the industrious dwarves and the violent orcs and the pure elves and they all say "well ive got this really interesting magic system" and I just don't care because you're doing the exact same dark lord returns plot that everyone else is doing and has been doing since long before tolkien. but at least back in his day, people still gave a shit about characters and giving their characters things to do. Oh and the best part is that despite the dark lord shit they always do, modern fantasy rejects the idea of morality altogether and tries to be grimdark and morally grey.
I am going to single-handedly fix modern fantasy. I am going to RESEARCH folklore and history and use it to create a NEW fantasy world derivative of the timeless mythology that is proven to work. I am going to write CHARACTERS who have hopes and dreams and want to DO SHIT that matters and they will DO SHIT indeed because I'm tired of motherfuckers doing shit I don't care about. I will show you piss bastards how to really do a morally grey story by setting it in a world with hard-defined good and evil. You can't have grey if the audience doesn't know what black and white looks like.
I am tired. I am annoyed. I am going to write something that is actually fucking good for once in this god damned generation and I don't care if no one reads it, I just want to prove that this sorry ass excuse of a modern fantasy genre doesn't have to be shit.