Whilst Seeking A Job, Your Application Gets Incorrectly Filed And You Accidentally Get Accepted As The

Whilst seeking a job, your application gets incorrectly filed and you accidentally get accepted as the Chief of the CIA. Now, you’re covered by so many security levels that no-one has any idea how under-qualified you are.

I do not consider any fantasy worldbuilding complete before you cannot tell me something about

the culture’s sense of humour, with examples of popular jokes,

popular literature VS classic literature,

what children learn in school (especially history, maths, biology),

the common grammar mistakes your conlang’s native speakers make,

the culture’s cuisine, with recipes,

toy production,

the embarassing old songs people sing when they are really drunk, but would not admit knowing while sober.

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REMEMBER: A trope isn’t an evil thing in itself! Tropes are like seasoning. A little pinch here and there is fine, but too much will spoil the dish. 

For thousands of years, you have been cursed to grant the wishes of mortals. The problem is that you don’t really have magic, besides the one keeping you alive and bound, which means you have to jump through hoops and come up with creative but shockingly mundane ways in order to fulfill them. One day, a girl trudges through a dystopian wasteland to find you and for her first wish, asks for the downfall of a tyrannical king.

Requires Fantasy Novel Things (feel free to add more)

- Title contains the words “Wolf/Rose/Sword/Dark/Crown/Throne” - Unexplained white haired girl - Evil Queen that is definitely a red head - The one black haired guy that dresses in all black but his eyes are blue and beautiful - Special Eyes™ - Someone turns into an animal and exactly one (1) person might question it - The Blacksmith - The mysterious hooded woman in the woods (bonus points if she has a fancy stick) - Barn sex - The fastest horse in the land that gets shot by an arrow on page 215 - The one soft spoken healer that gives life changing advice and then is never mentioned again - A truly excessive amount of dead parents - Everyone is British except for one inexplicable Irish guy

Humanity turns out to be the species with the finest grasp of computers in the Universe, and is welcomed into the Galactic Community. After a while we realize we’re now tech support for every being in the cosmos, whether we like it or not.