[ OT ] Do you prefer posts that are fantasy/science fiction/supernatural , or do you prefer something more grounded in reality ?

I feel like realism prompts always have to be so *serious. * 
 
 The problem with realism is that there's not a lot of liberty you can take with a plot, whereas with fantasy you can write for a multitude of imaginary worlds. 
 
 For example, if we're given the prompt `` a man loses his job'' we can only take the plot along a very narrow trajectory if we want to keep it realistic. In all likelihood, it's going to be a very dry and morose story involving tears and financial worry. On the other hand if a *wizard* loses his job then maybe he was the worst wizard in the world, maybe wizardry is getting outpaced by science, maybe his job is getting outsourced to witches campaigning for equal rights ( or equal rites, thank you Terry Pratchett ). There're a *lot* of stories we can make here, if we're not constrained by a plot that has to be utterly rigid in what is believably likely to happen in the real world.
