It's no secret that I love fantasy. It's a genre of different worlds and different people, of things both familiar and wondrously strange. And also, magic. But it also tends to heavily feature white, male characters in a setting that often resembles Medieval England (Lord of the Rings, anyone?). Despite that, fantasy still speaks to me. And perhaps I'm so drawn to fantasy because it often allows for protagonists who are "other" - be it through their magic (or perhaps lack thereof), their destiny, their ancestry, their class or social status - really, the list can go on. And that "otherness" was something I could identify with.