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Second Apocalypse

The story has two complete psychos as primary characters.

Discworld series.
Because Terry Pratchett does deconstruction of fantasy tropes really well.
Though, you're going to get a different tone out of it. I think it's still worth looking in to.

Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics

>>3742129
>>3742132

Thanks for the recommendations


>>3742133
I fucking love Sandman, which arcs in particular were you thinking of?

>>3742138
game of you maybe?

>>3742129
I second this, although less because of the craziness of the characters and more because it's great.

Also, The Black Company.

>>3742154
I've heard good things about the SA series, but I've never really looked into it before. Likewise with Black Company.

is the character literally half darth vader, or are you saying that as a rhetorical descriptive term?

>>3742177
Why do you even need to ask?

First Law series by Abercrombie
Pratchett's Discworld

For pratchett, read small gods first followed by the watch storyline. Pic is a guide to the discworld series.

>judge dread

>>3742256
Well. the premise is so 'fedora-esque' that it's not an unreasonable assumption.

Not a bad idea mind you, just very neckbeard.

>>3742126
>deconstruction of fantasy tropes

You don't know what either of those words mean.

I've been reading the few translated Witcher books for inspiration, very awesome stuff, especially the first one. They really break down the classic fairytale ideas and put them together in great new ways.

Another question for you guys: do you prefer first person narration or third person?

>>3743474
Third person. First person stories generally tend to be awful.

>>3742177
>Gaze into the fist of your father!

>>3743474
First person. Notes from Underground is one of my favourites and it's written in that style; the narrator is also the protagonist (he's kind of an anti-hero as well as an unreliable narrator because he's insane and unlikeable, although I still find myself rooting for him).

>>3744121
Oh my Freud!

Why don't you just, like, write a good story and worry about themes later?

One of my biggest problems with the Second Apocalypse is that Bakker went into it with the specific intention of bringing academia to the fantasy genre. As a direct result, it reads more like a soulless essay masquerading as a story.

>>3744184
he sure as fuck doesn't deserve her. i always pictured zizek a forevirgin

>>3742126

>>I'm writing a story that's a deconstruction of fantasy tropes, and it follows a villainous protagonist, who's half Darth Vader, half Judge Dread.

Noir.

>>What sort of literature do you guys recommend I read to get some inspiration?

We assembled those tropes for a reason. Now you want to "deconstruct" them?

>deconstruction of fantasy tropes

Into the trash it goes!

>>3742126
So you're writing low fantasy but you're too hipster to refer to it as such?

>>3744225
Its less about theme and more about seeing how a good fantasy narrative is put together, what elements work and all that.

For example, reading ASoIaF inspired me to put in a bit of food porn