45 Things I Want to See More of in Stories (Supernatural/Paranormal Edition)

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1. Main characters who aren’t reporters, detectives, or free-lancers
   
2. Non-Western supernatural creatures
   
3. Non-dragon supernatural creatures
   
4. Supernatural creatures fitting the culture they’re related to (phoenixes in a Greek neighborhood, kumiho in Koreatown, Dhegdheer in a Somali neighborhood)
   
5. Local mythologies
   
6. Urban legends
   
7. Organizations within supernatural hunting (hierarchies, safehouses, information networks)
   
8. Cooperation with the government
   
9. Immortal characters who act immortal
   
10. Immortal characters who have different moral standards
    
11. Supernatural characters who have different moral standards
    
12. Supernatural characters who have different types of gender
    
13. Supernatural characters who have different types of sexuality
    
14. Supernatural societies totally different from human societies
    
15. Supernatural children
    
16. Supernatural families
    
17. Main characters not ending up in romantic relationships with supernatural creatures
    
18. Non-hypersexual vampires
    
19. Aftermath of reveals of supernatural creatures to the world
    
20. Hybrids
    
21. Hybrids who are neither despised nor uber-powerful
    
22. People who are genuinely afraid of what’s going on
    
23. Non-loner main characters
    
24. Main characters without tragic backstories
    
25. Genuine non-romantic/non-sexual friendships between humans and supernatural creatures
    
26. Cooperation between different types of creatures
    
27. Inter-creature wars
    
28. Non-humanoid creatures
    
29. Stories set not in the United States
    
30. Main characters with no training
    
31. Supernatural creatures who have casual non-romantic sexual relationships
    
32. Without those relationships being demeaning or cheap
    
33. Queer supernatural creatures
    
34. Who aren’t queer-coded to be bad or hypersexual
    
35. Rural or suburban settings
    
36. Laws getting in the way of action
    
37. Ethical quandaries about the humanity (or not) of supernatural creatures
    
38. Supernatural supremacy
    
39. Different races within supernatural species (different types of vampires, of pixies, of phoenixes, etc.)
    
40. Schools for supernatural creatures
    
41. Integrated human/non-supernatural schools
    
42. Speciesism against supernatural creatures
    
43. Genuinely nice supernatural creatures
    
44. Powerful supernatural creatures who aren’t super manipulative or evil
    
45. Dragons (because we can always use more dragons)