/lit/ - Literature

>>17393590
It began when I was a kid in the golden years of the 1990's. I was browsing one of those toy-commercial booklets, this one was about Playmobil. Now I never gave two shits about Playmobil, but there was a two-page spread about a bunch of magical shit happening in a forest, and the artwork there was fucking fascinating. I want to hear stories about it. But they didn't exist. So I made my mom write them from my diction (I didn't know how to write yet myself)
This was the beginning of my foray into fiction and fantasy. There was a problem though. My mom wanted Disney-esque stories of princes and princesses, which I didn't care about at all. I wanted to focus on the weird people and creatures in the woods.
So when my mom tried to turn the story into another "the prince saves the princess" type of thing I told her to write "and then a dwarf set the forest on fire".
I have been walking down the path I begun then for over 20 years now.