#portal fantasy

[vyriadurav]

(Edit: using this as a pinned post about all my books for now in lieu of another one. This was formerly for International Lesbian Day but now is a one stop shop for all my books) For starters, consider checking out

Catnip Amazon | Itch.io | Alternative Ebook Sellers | Audiobook For all his life, Sol has believed he's only worthy of affection as long as he's useful--and he intends to prove his ultimate use by restoring a colony on Venus as a new home for his friends and lovers. But upon arriving, he realizes there's more here than he bargained for. For one, the resident artificial intelligence wants to make friends with him. For another, the nanites want to completely change his body... and in the process reveal her true self. Stuck (or perhaps blessed?) with a new form, she must find out what it means to live, to be loved for who she is rather than her work. Catnip is a cozy space exploration novel about a trans woman's journey to find herself and what it means to be loved for who she is, with the help of her polycule and a lesbian AI. If Sci-fi isn't quite your speed, you can also check out

The Hatchling Amazon | Itch.io | Alternative Ebook Sellers

Sarric dreamed of dragons all his life; such flights of fancy captured his imagination at a young age and sustained him through the cruelty of the hunters that ruled the isolated mountain town of Rivermist. One day, a real dragon appears before him, dazzling him with her beauty and an answer to the unease that's afflicted him for as long as he remembers. He's eager to take what she offers--but the greedy hunters, driven by tales of treasure hoards, will do everything in their power to destroy her. The Hatchling is a fantasy about a trans woman's journey of accepting her identity and her new found family.

If you want something a little spicier, consider reading Wyrmheart Itch.io exclusive

A mage without home or family seeks to establish a legacy for herself so that her name might ring out through the ages.

An assassin is charged with striking at the heart of a draconic cult that surely hides some greater evil.

Wyrmheart is a story set in Maria Ying's Those Who Break Chains universe and tells the story of trans women making their way through life in this fantastical world.

You can also take a look at my Patreon where I am currently writing several things, but primarily

Forged in the Light of New Stars

Forged is a t4t lesbian isekai story about a closeted trans woman and a repressed, rotten egg (in the trans sense) who find themselves transported to a vibrant, magical world filled with advanced technology, mysteries to discover, and most importantly: a place where they can their truest selves. Follow Gwen as she strives to take control of her life, to be the woman she's always known she could be, and find true happiness.

Follow Brian as he struggles to cast off the chains that his family has bound him in, to undo the bigoted messages they poured into him constantly, and find out, deep down, who she truly is.

Watch them fall in love with each other and with the mystical world of Tellara and all the new friends they make along the way. See them uncover secrets about the connection between Earth and Tellara and their purpose as travelers between worlds. Magic, alchemy, and queerness collide in this otherworldly journey.

#t4t wlw #trans lesbian #transfem #trans author #wlw #original fiction #transfem author #Dragons #transhumanism #science fiction #fantasy #modern fantasy #isekai #portal fantasy #novel #polyamory #yuri #girls love

[constantlyfalling]

Have a safe passage.

#photography #nature photography #cottagecore #aesthetic #fantasy #fantasy photography #naturecore #beautiful #ireland #portal #portal fantasy #travel #alaska #my post

[microsff]

"You know portal fantasies?" my colleague says at lunch. "When someone goes adventuring in another world?" "Exactly! Now, why don't they write about someone from a fantasy land coming to this world?" I think of the crimson tentacle forests of my home. And sip my coffee. "Mhm."

#Microfiction #writers on tumblr #VSS #Portal fantasy

[nothwell]

#gay romance #historical romance #mm romance #mlm romance #queer romance #victorian romance #romantasy #isekai #portal fantasy #historical fantasy

[amberkendslacy]

#alice in wonderland #the chronicles of narnia #peter pan #wizard of oz #dorothy #wendy darling #pevensie siblings #disney #portal fantasy #isekai

[bibliophilecats]

Read recently: Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher (at least her non-horror books) have become an auto-buy for me and I am working my way through her bibliography. Even the books I do not love are way better than I lot of other books.

This one has a great premise, and I was excited for it. And I was looking for a short, quick read.

Unfortunately, I had a really hard time getting into the story and it took me forever to read the book. I was close to dnf but did not want to give up (there were little morsels I loved, such as the werewolf). And I am glad I continued because the last 1/3 was amazing. So overall, I am finishing this book on a high, with a good feeling and recommend it to anyone - with the notice that the first half was very slow for me.

#summer in orcus #t kingfisher #portal fantasy #helen reads 2023 #review

[advashaviv]

I finally did it!! Printed and bound my book for a final read before giving to an editor 🥳🥳🥳

My work-in-progress novel is a cozy fantasy inspired by ADHD. The free prequel is already written! See kessem.com ✨😍

#adhd writer #adhd community #booklr #fantasy fiction #cozy fantasy #portal fantasy #fantasy books #fantasy #adhd #actually adhd #adhd representation #neurodivergence #writers #writerscommunity #writeblr #writing #original writing #original fiction #original novel #books and reading #writing adhd fiction while living adhd reality #adhd fantasy fiction

[magicaldogtoto]

My thoughts on the general idea that isekai anime started to go downhill when they started to be written by men featuring male protagonists in wish-fulfillment adventures is that if you look beyond the current trends of isekai--beyond anime, even--you'll find that there are a lot of works of isekai (or, as they're called in English, "portal fantasy") written by men that featured girl protagonists that didn't have the same issues people find in current isekai when discussing the genre's flaws. (Some of these works are a lot older, and have other issues relevant to the time, but that's another topic.)

Off the top of my head, you have L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, and C.S. Lewis as examples of men who wrote portal fantasies with girls as protagonists that didn't have the same issues that you see people criticize in isekai anime. The main difference I could see between their works and isekai anime that people dislike is that they were writing for a more general audience of children. More often than not, they also had younger girls who were either related to them or the children of friends of theirs that inspired them to write those stories. Lewis dedicated The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to his goddaughter Lucy, Lewis Carroll wrote for Alice Liddell and her family, etc.

Even looking at more recent examples of isekai/isekai-adjacent works that feature girls and are written by men--Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Labyrinth by Jim Henson, Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro--if you look up interviews by those people, they often cite their daughters as inspiration for the stories and protagonists they wrote.

The underlying theme I see here, is that none of them were horny while writing their works. (There's debate about Carroll, but I'm not going to go into that for now.)

I'm not saying that you have to be a dad if you're a man writing these kinds of works, but there is a general sense of empathy for the younger protagonists that doesn't involve sexualizing underage characters. I think that's one of the main reasons why these stories are different from current isekai that people often criticize. Just my two cents.

(There is one European isekai that is written by a man and features an overpowered male protagonist--that would be Michael Ende's The Neverending Story. But that story makes it a plot point about what happens when the isekai protagonist becomes too powerful for his own good.)

#isekai #isekai anime #portal fantasy #l frank baum #pan's labyrinth #the wonderful wizard of oz #the neverending story #alice's adventures in wonderland #jim henson's labyrinth #the chronicles of narnia #lewis carroll #c s lewis #neil gaiman #coraline #michael ende #jim henson #guillermo del toro #my thoughts #text

[byleahgracie]

New story alert! I've started writing a sapphic romance fantasy/historical webnovel for Tapas' "True Love on Tapas" contest!

I'd LOVE if you could check it out and, if you have a tapas account, subscribe and give it a like and comment if you enjoy reading it!!

It's full of time travel, sapphic love, and a quest to save a world, mostly set in Regency England :D

#webnovel #portal fantasy #historical romance #romance fantasy #sapphic #wlw #gl series #girl love #lesbian romance #sapphic love #wlw story

[rroderickrowe]

Pre-Order Alert!

You can pre-order member #rroderickrowe 's next book today! Heretic: Lost in Legend Book 1 releases July 15th.

In the year 3115, Priest-Applicant Justice Preston is sent to the ancient home of the Jamari to research his life and miracles. It seems straight forward until... A church gone rogue. An unexpected discovery of Fae. A murderous bishop.

His boyfriend and guide introduces him to the people known as the Tuatha De Cernon. Stagmen. Fauns. Satyrs. Pixies, dryads, nymphs and others. These people have come through a portal opened by the legendary Jamari a thousand years before. They've been living amongst us in secret for all this time.

And he discovers ancient memoirs written by the Sophia Shaman, boon companion to the Jamari. In her own words he finds proof the Church of Jamari has been subverting the teachings of the legend they claim to follow. Any rumor of this discovery will bring the inquisition and the enforcer priests into his life in dangerous and deadly ways.

He can turn the fragile relics over to the church knowing they'll never be seen again. Or, he can find a way to make them public and become HERETIC.

Cernon, High King of the Tuatha De, wants to use the discovery to entice the church into violating a millennia-old agreement and then have his people come out of seclusion.

Justice can choose to be the bait in the trap, or flee into exile with his boyfriend Ian. Ian, as a practicing shaman, has his own deadly secrets from the church which has long forbidden any spirituality outside the influence of the priests.

In his soul-searching, Justice must choose from so many options and deadly paths he finds it near impossible. But time carries him inevitably into his eventual fate.

#fantasy books #paradigmlost #portal fantasy #rroderickrowe #writers of tumblr #fantasy world #lgbt fiction #readers of tumblr #fae books #writeblr

[psyzook]

As much as I love portal fantasy, and the idea of being whisked into another universe, it pains me to think that I can’t just run my stupid little mouth. Because at every minor inconvenience I do the Michael Scott ‘I’m gonna kill myself’ bit from the office, and they would be alarmed. I simply cannot say ‘go piss girl’ whenever someone has to go and take a leak. Just imagine a character like Legolas or Aragorn having to respond to that.

#self insert #reader insert #portal fantasy #modern girl in middle earth #dimension travel #universe travel #fanfiction #fanfic #lotr #MGIME #self-insert #reader-insert #SI #SIOC

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

What is "portal fantasy fallacy"?

See there's an assumption among people who write portal fantasies that the person must return at the end, permanently. This dates back to Narnia, where the protagonists always have to go home at the end until the very last book, because they are too old and not "innocent" enough for Narnia anymore. Later portal fantasy challenged this and discussed it, but a number just took it in the opposite direction, where the protagonist decides to stay or that this is their true home. It all falls into the same, incorrect assumption that you cannot have two homes, two identities, two worlds.

Amphibia is okay on this regard because the permanent return is a key part of its theme, that some things change and you don't get them back. But many just take it for granted that a portal fantasy must hinge on choosing one of the two worlds, and I find that disappointingly binary and ignorant. Many people straddle multiple worlds, and acting like their only choice is to choose one or the other is reductive and cruel.

#amphibia #narnia #portal fantasy

[constantlyfalling]

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#dreamcore #dreamscape #photography #nature photography #portal #portal fantasy #all of these pics were taken in #oregon #pnwcore #pnw #forestcore #magical forest #forest #naturecore #beautiful #beautiful nature #my post #fairy aesthetic #fairycore #cottagecore #imagine if you could step between a pair of trees #in just the right way #at the right angle #and travel between places

[author-a-holmes]

Nanowrimo 2023 Wrap Up...

So, I didn't make my 75k or break any personal records, but I'm really not mad about that. I don't know why I thought November was the nano event to try that in, November nano's are almost always a disaster for me. In fact, this is only the second time I've ever hit 50k in November.

But hit it, I did! Final count at 1-minute-to-midnight on November 30th was 51,841 words, which has brought my Darkling Manuscript up to 92,696. That's almost doubled the words I've written throughout the rest of 2023 which is incredible, and I'm so happy.

It also means that it looks like I'm still on track to complete the manuscript by January, which was really my main goal. All in all, I'd call this Nanowrimo a resounding success.

If you're interested in some of my other statistics, I've got some more numbers beneath the cut...

Number of Sprints in November: 132 Sprints Time Spent Writing in November: 43 hours, 45 minutes Estimated Remaining: 20-25k words or 7-10 Chapters.

#Writeblr #Writeblr Community #Writing #Writing Community #Darkling #Fey Touched Trilogy #Nanowrimo #Nanowrimo 2023 #Self Published Author #Writing Statistics #Nanowrio Wrap Up #vampire #fey #fae #fantasy #Portal Fantasy #Reverse Portal Fantasy #contemporary fantasy #found family #romantic fantasy

[scifrey]

THE UNTOLD TALE

Book One of the Accidental Turn Series

This novel follows Pip, who is pulled against her will into the epic fantasy novel series she's loved since she was a teenager. However, the world is darker, and far more dangerous than she could have ever predicted, especially when it turns out the hero is a much bigger jerk than she expected him to be.

Pip knows how to circumnavigate the Hero's Journey and the pitfalls and loopholes of this particular world - but what will happen to her beloved characters outside of the comfort of the fantasy they were written for? And what happens when it's not the hero, but the hero's overlooked and bullied little brother who proves to be her biggest champion?

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Forsyth Turn is not a hero. Lordling of Turn Hall, yes. Spymaster for the king, certainly. But hero? That's his older brother's job, and Kintyre Turn is nothing if not legendary. However, when a raid on the kingdom's worst criminal results in the rescue of a baffling woman, oddly named and even more oddly mannered, Forsyth finds his quaint, sedentary life turned on its head.

Dragged reluctantly into a quest he never expected, and fighting villains that even his brother has never managed to best, Forsyth is forced to confront his own self-shame and the demons that come with always being second-best. And, more than that, when he finally realizes where his companion came from and why she's here, he'll be forced to question not only his place in the world, but the very meaning of his own existence.

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Smartly crafted, THE UNTOLD TALE gives agency to the overlooked, and asks what it really means to be a fan when the worlds you love don't resemble the world you live in, celebrates the power of the written word, and shows us what happens when someone stands up and refuses to remain a secondary character in their own life.

New Chapters drop every Tuesday.

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Read on WATTPAD | READ on A03 | BUY THE eBOOK or PAPERBACK (coming early 2024) | Read about the rest of the series

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Cover by @once-upon-a-reblog Map by Christopher Winkelaar

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[the-real-couchrat]

Some fanart for the amazing Portal Fantasy fic by @biplet !

More versions below the cut.

The fic is AMAZING, you should definitely read it! For the drawing, I tested some new shading methods that were honestly inspired by @that-ghosts-art and lavendertowne on YouTube. I guess this could also just be art of newly transformed Dipper, or cannon Dipper.

#transcendence au #my art #alcor the dreambender #dipper #gravity falls #portal fantasy #shading #doodles #I hadn’t done side profiles in a while when I drew this #so I was a bit rusty #I check if the fic has updated every week