Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26296200-20151017191418/@comment-27723099-20151021151804

Fantasy is EXACTLY for things like ASOIAF. It talks about things with a relevance in RL but in a way that it can be applied to many different situations instead of naming a specific RL situation, so it's "timeless". If fantasy had nothing to do with Real Life™, what would be its purpose?