Reality and Fantasy
May. 26th, 2006 06:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bardiphoukaOK, let us approach it honestly. Most of us who are seriously involved with the fantasy genre, especially as writers, are on occasion accused of copping out of reality. Certainly Fantasy can be escapist. But so can most fiction at one point or another. And yes Fantasy can be about flight, whether it is trying to run from something or at times trying to run to something. Dystopia or Utopia, take your pick.
But I think that there are also times when Fantasy just rears back and kicks Reality hard (we shan't say where) to get its attention. Fantasy can be the best way in some situations to show what the true Reality is.
Which is another issue. Far too many people today have no idea what is Real. Look at all the so-called "Reality" shows on TV today. Wake up people, it is not about reality..it is verisimilitude, which is not the same thing, not the same thing at all.
Speaking of reality though,at the moment there are app 110 thousand people without electricity in the area, which is a good chunk of the metro population. And I do hope those in the area who stumble across my Live Journal from time to time, or whose live journal I read, are ok.
But I think that there are also times when Fantasy just rears back and kicks Reality hard (we shan't say where) to get its attention. Fantasy can be the best way in some situations to show what the true Reality is.
Which is another issue. Far too many people today have no idea what is Real. Look at all the so-called "Reality" shows on TV today. Wake up people, it is not about reality..it is verisimilitude, which is not the same thing, not the same thing at all.
Speaking of reality though,at the moment there are app 110 thousand people without electricity in the area, which is a good chunk of the metro population. And I do hope those in the area who stumble across my Live Journal from time to time, or whose live journal I read, are ok.
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Yep!
Date: 2006-05-26 05:52 pm (UTC)You should post like this more often--you're very bright. (hugs)
Re: Yep!
Date: 2006-05-27 07:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 08:58 am (UTC)"Realistic" fiction rooted in this current notion of what reality is could be accused of "copping out" too, if they want to play that card. They should look in the mirror. Writing "realistic" fiction instead of living their own lives? By their logic, they are clearly running from their own life situations. *rolls eyes* Pfft! Who are they to define/assume what the goal of writing across the board is, anyways?
Ah well, if the reality-police come near me I shall kick them in the shins and that shall be the end of that. *hands out CdL books like Jack Chick pamphlets* :)
Copping out. Good grief.
Our power went back on today, but I woke up with a sore throat from lack of air conditioning/filtering. Lame allergies. Grrr arrgh!
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Date: 2006-05-28 02:28 pm (UTC)As for fantasy being a cop-out. Sadly, most published fantasy is exactly that, not to mention very badly written. Which just follows Sturgeon's Law. A visit to our local bookstore revealed no delint, no Windling, two Gaiman and several hundred various tie-ins for rpgs etc.