#is it perhaps going to be nightvalian in nature where these things just happen and no one is in charge of dealing with it? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

equalseleventhirds · 2 years ago

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i mean .listen. sometimes ur fantasy story is a big metaphor abt the world and society and the government and current events. and sometimes it's silly stuff abt 'hey what if the annoying customer at work did get eaten by a plant monster?'

bcos my god sometimes i gotta do something chill

#there's room for some meaning in there probably but mostly just like. i can't get caught up in humans legislatign magic.#it hasn't happened that's all i can have. or if it has happened it is not very effective #if i try to confine magic stuff that way it loses its meaning #does this mean that my urban fantasy world is going to be a little stranger and ungoverned?#is it perhaps going to be nightvalian in nature where these things just happen and no one is in charge of dealing with it?#yeah (altho obvs not quite night vale that's a different sorta universe)#i gotta write a thing i like u see. i gotta.#also frankly an attempt at addressing the legal personhood of ghosts is gonna wind up hamhanded and unrealistic from me prolly #there are ghosts and people deal with them i think. there may be insurance for ghosts but there's no laws abt them.#that's the world i gotta make that's the one i can work this story into

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