Recent content by Pygmy

Very true! Today we have all this technology that brings the world together. But high fantasy and most types of fantasy sub genres take place in worlds where this sort of stuff doesn't exist. So unless you travel (and traveling is often difficult), these races do not mingle and often develop...

Can't back up that story, there is one about cross walk signs being racist. I cannot confirm the validity of this story or the news source partly due to its bias. To keep on topic, I once had a beta reader tell me that it was racist that the mother of my protagonist, a Latina woman, treated her...

Your friend seems to be overreaching tbh. But again, a simple (and true to life) remedy would be to at the very least eventually develop friendliness and fondness between some of the characters of your world with other characters of a different race. Explain, perhaps, the reasons behind this...

I knew this writer a couple years ago who got a publishing deal for a YA fantasy book, one which featured different races. ARC copies went out to readers for review, and one day she woke up to see that they smeared her poor book all over the internet. According to one blogger, the antagonistic...