“The real world is actually really cool”
I Finally had a reason to not go outside... and you ruined everything...

The Magic School Bus is Urban Fantasy, Ms. Frizzle is a warlock serving under a fey patron of knowledge, and the Bus is the mystical patron that no one ever acknowledges is sentient. Q.E.D.

"Baristas and Bosses"
Someone make this into a tabletop RPG

Red: "Your art will hurt people"
Me, making weapons: "Yes."

Now here's the real question we should be asking:
Is "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" urban fantasy?

Red: “Where the hell are the Dragons?”                           The Dragons: self quarantining

HOT TAKE: Magical Girl anime is Urban Fantasy

I love Rick Riordan so much. He started writing to show his son a positive portrayal of people with ADHD and dyslexia, and his belief that people deserve to have characters they can relate to (be it their race, sexuality, gender identity, ability, or culture) hasn't changed, it's only expanded

I was living with my boyfriend's rich father in a fancy neighborhood at the off skirts of town, where deer and other animals could be seen frequently moving through peoples yards at night. I was working a bartending job late and became increasing paranoid on my drive home.  Physically and emotionally drained drained from work, the last thing I wanted to do was hit a fucking deer with my 2010 KIA in this rich person's neighborhood. I drove at 30 m/hr which is slow as fuck outside of a city, almost white knuckled looking out for any deer that could sprint in front of my poor little car.

Driving through this neighborhood so focused on looking for deer and exasperated from work I saw something as the light of my headlights poured onto it, thin and tall and furry and wearing denim.

I SCREAMED. Literally. I screamed in my car for a full second.


And then my mind started to catch up.... wearing denim?


It was a guy. It was just a fucking guy walking down the street with his dog late at night. Because my mind was so focused on looking for a deer when I saw a person in my headlights my brain blended the expected with the reality so quickly I almost drove off the road imagining a Wendigo.

Anyway, that's why I dont believe urban myths about the mothman or what ever. It's just a fucking owl, dude.

I have what I call the "Five Minute Rule" for my writing: If I use a subject/topic/theme/creature/ whatever I mus be able to hold a Five Minute conversation about it without looking like a dumbass with someone who actually knows what they're talking about. If I couldn't theoretically manage that, I either don't include it or do more research until I can.

Legends of Tomorrow did one of my favorite examples of this. They established that the Greek Gods were actual immortals that drew their power from having human worshipers / followers. Over time as the number of followers diminished they simply died out.

Except Dionysus who, when the characters encountered him, ended up as an "Eternal Frat Bro" in an American college. Instead of being worshiped as a God he gains followers by being the most popular guy on campus and throwing the best parties.

5:09 uhm actually, an early episode of supernatural prominently features a kitchen sink when water is somehow evil

“Google says try seducing it?”

Was that Google entry written by a lonely werewolf?

When your religious fanfic is so good, people believe it's canon

I love urban fantasy where the magic is just there. You just see a gorgon texting her girlfriend on the phone, and their girlfriend just casually has dragon wings, horns and a tail. Stuff like that, where a wizard needs to fetch a pen so instead of standing up to get it they flick their hand and it flies to them. Where it's utterly 100% normal, and having them separated would be a weird concept to them

1:14 "the heros will be handling magic...also drink coffee..." And my first addition was "and the elf side character will pull out a Glock to take out the big bad"

"Google says try seducing it?"
OH come on, bard...

As a Native American person who really wants to become a writer, and also grew up on a midwest reservation...I really want this quarantine to be over so I can go to my local professors and elders to collect my tribe's mythology and folklore.
I really feel like my community's stories have been unheard of for so long by the outside world, but they're so commonplace here where I grew up.
For example, we have an old story about a woman who came to a tribe and taught them how to use tobacco and smoke it as a ceremony, and she could turn into a white buffalo calf. In the story, it's said that she could hear the weird pervy thoughts some guy was thinking of her, so she struck him with lightning and killed him. And now, there's an entire established shelter program in my state that protects displaced and abused women and children called the White Buffalo Calf Women's Society. But no one outside of the reservation areas really know about it.

Beginning Red: Urban fantasy is not a genre, it's a setting
Ending Red: Its my favorite genre

So this confirms that Sailor Moon (and most magical girl shows) are urban fantasy