Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

zlatiah@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 months ago

Hifantapodysfut.

Pronounced [haiːfæntʌpoʊdɪsfuːt].

(Transcribed according to IPA/English.)

Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 months ago

What’s the etymology?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · edit-2 2 months ago

It doesn’t have one. I was making a joke.

Hifantapodysfut = High-Fantasy-Post-Apocalypse-Dystopian-Future.

It’s in the title.

SanguinePar@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

You maniac, you made up! God damn you all to hell!!

Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 months ago

So that’s the etymology

Deceptichum@quokk.au · 2 months ago

Now what’s the entomology?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · edit-2 2 months ago

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