Need Help With An Idea I have for My BL Novel?

@Kaydreamer Kaydreamer
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 03:56:11 +0000

@Kaydreamer wrote:

I find it usually comes of as rather weird for a story set in America to have eastern folklore pop up. Having a supernatural element with the fortune teller is all well and good, and you could expand upon that, but I'd go with western mythologies. I wouldn't use Korean folklore unless you shift the setting to Korea.

People used to do this with Japanese folklore, and it just came off as strange. Gods, myths and legends are often tied to important locations in the countries they're from, and they just don't work well outside of their setting. (With the notable exception of American Gods by Neil Gaiman, because a major theme of that novel was how immigrants to America bought their gods with them.)