Flipping Fantasyland: A Southern Fantasy of Kobold Proportions
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Description
Things were going well for Mila ever since she managed to move far from home and carve a life out for herself in the big city. But now she’s been isekai’d as a kobold to a land all too similar to the home she fled, and she finds herself just as at odds with it now as she didbeforeher mind got spliced together with the version of her that originally inhabited this body solo. Plus the chairs are all human-height.
What’s a kobold to do?
A queer isekai story set in a fantasy American South, this is a tale about community, found family, and fighting against unjust systems.
[Participant in the Spring 2023 Royal Road Writathon challenge]
Cover art by the delightfulJuniper Peliska, who has more of their art atLepidopteraArt.com.
Information
- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2023
- Author
- AwesomeEllie
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 4.6/ 5.0
- Followers
- 73
- Views
- 25,121
Chapters(33 total)
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Community Reviews(3)
- Em-dasRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0The author has put some thought into what isekai stories are, and on top of that, has enough writing chops to be interesting besides. I’ll get back to the story when I get a stretch of (calm) free time, because I feel like there’s a lot of warm fuzzy details to appreciate. Like Naw-Naw.
- SolipsisRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Let’s set one thing straight. The queer romance aspect is, as of chapter 10, very light, and the story stands for its own merits. If you are hypersensitive to the topic, then yes, don’t read it — but you should already know that from reading the summary.
AwesomeEllie starts with a unique take on the isekai idea: the protagonist is a merger of two "versions" of herself, one human in our world, and one kobold in the universe the story takes place in.
The writing is fluid and enjoyable. Care is taken to flesh out each character in the party, opening up for interesting possible character development.
Note — I arrived here expecting high stakes (from the summary and prologue). Instead, I discovered a slice-of-life tale in a world that cleverly combines medfan expectations and inspirations from the southern States. If you want to read this story, be warned — as of chapter 10, the pace is slow, the plot low-stakes, and the story focused on interactions within Mila’s party. - Saint YinRoyal Road★ 0.5I can't enjoy a story this distracted from itself. The initial perspective sounded interesting and I was glad there wasn't an immediate System thrust into my face, which is all-too-common for fantasy isekai nowadays, but I simply cannot connect to a pace as glacial as this one. Perhaps this just wasn't what I was looking for in a story.