FANTASY
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort" - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit. If I were to have a hole, I think it would be Fantasy.
If Fantasy was a food it would be a Dutch Apple Pie. In other words, something which will always be absolutely fantastic. There is something so appealing about that traditional Fantasy world to me. The ones where for most of your life you could live without ever knowing conflict, where if you need money all you would need to do would be to find a quest or something like that. At it's core, Fantasy is, like all fiction, an escape from reality, and one that attracts me because it's a reality that I will never experience, with Sci-Fi or Post Apocalypse fiction, usually, it's something that could happen, even in my life time. But Fantasy? Fantasy takes place in worlds entirely seperate from ours most of the time, and if they are in ours, they take place in the past. To escape to a Fantasy world would be to leave behind all our problems, but of course in Fantasy there are new problems. One's which I would rather avoid. This view of Fantasy also ignores settings such as Warhammer, in which every day as a human you risk having whatever evil thing show up in your hamlet and turn you inside out.
With an escape also means the loss of everything in the world you escaped from as well. For this reason, I don't believe, even if I had the oppertunity to, would I leave the real world and go to a Fantasy one. While I love to indulge in the art, to live in one would be different, and over time I think I would find myself fantasizing over returning back home...
