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* ''[[Discworld]]'' is somewhere between this and [[Low Fantasy]], depending on the book. Elephants, turtles, space, geological pizza...it's mentioned [[Once an Episode|at the start of every book]] but seldom remarked on by characters.
** The amazing thing is not that there are giant elephants on a giant turtle, it's that there's such a thing as elephants or turtles at all.
* ''[[Jonathan Strange
* [[Naomi Novik]]'s [[Temeraire]] series is pretty much historical fiction in the Napoleonic era ... except there's dragons. They are mostly bred by the military for use as flying war vessels.
* The world of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is like this for a lot of people. There's a [[Masquerade]], but for those in the know, daily life is daily life. Harry advertises in the Yellow Pages under "wizard", writes pamphlets for dabblers in magic, and although we don't see this during the books most of his business seems to come from finding lost items and exorcising frightening-but-not-really-dangerous ghosts.
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* ''[[The Sims]]''. Ye ''gods'', ''[[The Sims]]''. Between the three games and all their expansions, there's genies, Plant-Sim hybrids, werewolves, [[The Undead|various assorted undead]], android-things, Bigfoot, levitation, teleportation, Sim-eating plants, alien abductions, half-alien Sims, magic powers, meteors falling from space, time machines, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|those bloody splines reticulating all over the place]]... the list goes on.
* Like above, ''[[
** "So where's the house made of broccoli?"
* In the original ''[[Zoo Tycoon]]'', use of the right [[Easter Egg]] can let you purchase and display unicorns, mermaids, Loch Ness monsters, bigfeet and yeti alongside your mundane animals.
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* ''[[Real Life Comics]]'', though it's been pretty tame for the past year or so, deals with this in the form of the character Tony. He's an evil genius who's conquered the world (and, subsequently, gave it back); he built a WarMech, a time machine, and a portal generator (mostly out of gum and old computer parts); and he spends some time as the Black Pants Samurai. How do Greg and the other characters handle this? "Meh. Business as usual."
* In ''[[Flying Man And Friends]]'', [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=224 cookies grow on trees], Camembert cheese can crafted from scratch [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=272 in mere seconds], stuffed toys come equipped with [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=266 airplane wings and rockets] - and no one seems to notice that these things aren't ordinary.
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' featured a pleasant town somewhere in England that happened to be home to (or drew in) devil-worshippers, [[Mad Scientist]]s, ghosts, zombies, sentient robots and the like, while the characters included an inventor who made a time machine from a teapot, a [[Spy Catsuit|sexy spy]] and a sometime-journalist prone to [[Back
** ''[[Scary Go Round]]'''s successor ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' continues in the same vein (and the same location). No-one seems to bat an eyelid at having [http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100811 a robot in the school].
* ''[[Skin Deep]]'' is like this half the time with it's plot of "mythical creatures [[The Masquerade|living secret from humanity]]." The characters that grew up in mythical society act as if there is nothing out of the ordinary about a town populated by mythical creatures, while humans understandably have troubles getting past that fact.
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