/lit/ - Literature

>>21707352
>The more old pulp fantasy I read, the more similar I find things posited on /x/ to be to many of the concepts found within these stories.

Before the internet people were mostly copying esotiric stuff and folklore, not to mention twisting science fiction into fantasy equivalent. Since the advent of internet and modern publishing industry people have degenerated into hardcore copying from each other, people no longer read actual souce texts, instead just reading a story that uses said sources, resulting in a spiral of half-understood, uninspired usage of concepts. Not that it didn't happen decades ago, but in the extreme it does now.

Modern fantasy is near absolutely self-referential.