MJScribes
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I read (watch, listen to) fantasy works, because it's the only way to visit the worlds captured in those stories. For me works of fantasy (and sci-fi too, especially those in more far-fetched genres) are the chance to experience unique places, ideas, cultures and people that I couldn't get to know any other way than via books, movies or TV shows.
Also, fantasy has amazing ability to make experiences and events far removed from our normal life understandable, engaging and relatable - and that's a really powerful tool. It can make people see things in ways they would never consider in real life (i.e. I'm from a country that's super homogenous so especially as a child/teen I wasn't quite aware of racism/discrimination based on nationality and fantasy literature helped me understand those concepts and prompted me to learn and examine them in real life - to the point when I realized there were TONS of racism/national discriminations in my country but the groups affected by it were too small to raise much awareness of it and it just went unchallenged and therefore invisible for the most part).
And since experiencing things unattainable by any other means and opening myself to ideas and experiences outside of my common frame of reference is the essence of fiction for me, then obviously I fell in love with fantasy Both as a reader and a writer.
Also, fantasy has amazing ability to make experiences and events far removed from our normal life understandable, engaging and relatable - and that's a really powerful tool. It can make people see things in ways they would never consider in real life (i.e. I'm from a country that's super homogenous so especially as a child/teen I wasn't quite aware of racism/discrimination based on nationality and fantasy literature helped me understand those concepts and prompted me to learn and examine them in real life - to the point when I realized there were TONS of racism/national discriminations in my country but the groups affected by it were too small to raise much awareness of it and it just went unchallenged and therefore invisible for the most part).
And since experiencing things unattainable by any other means and opening myself to ideas and experiences outside of my common frame of reference is the essence of fiction for me, then obviously I fell in love with fantasy Both as a reader and a writer.