modernsapho:

admiralnaismith:

aflamebeyondtheveil:

my-fair-ladybug:

Requires Fantasy Novel Things (feel free to add more)

– Title contains the words “Wolf/Rose/Sword/Dark/Crown/Throne”
– Unexplained white haired girl
– Evil Queen that is definitely a red head
– The one black haired guy that dresses in all black but his eyes are blue and beautiful
– Special Eyes™
– Someone turns into an animal and exactly one (1) person might question it
– The Blacksmith
– The mysterious hooded woman in the woods (bonus points if she has a fancy stick)
– Barn sex
– The fastest horse in the land that gets shot by an arrow on page 215
– The one soft spoken healer that gives life changing advice and then is never mentioned again
– A truly excessive amount of dead parents
– Everyone is British except for one inexplicable Irish guy

-traveling unreasonable distances by magic and still not having time travel to save aforementioned dead parents

-that one person who calls magic stupid and believes surgery is the next step for man

-dragons in general

-at least one character or place with a Y in the name
-The Village Festival is the biggest event of the year
-the word “lithe”
-the nice innkeeper with their mean spouse
-a character unused to hygiene who freaks out about having to wash

– long and arduous road trip to the Place of the Specific Adjective and/or Noun
– the Castle Ball where the heroine wears The Dress which is described in great detail
– medieval weaponry 101
– the three drinks of fantasy: ale, wine, and fairy wine
– there’s always someone with a Napoleon complex
– the Moon cycle and the Solstices