Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.
Terry PratchettWhatโs this here,โ he said suspiciously, โabout us got to give you faggots?โ Oh, we have to have them,โ said Newt, โWe burn them.โ Say what?โ We burn them.โ The guardโs face broadened into a grin. And theyโd told him England was soft. โRight on!โ he said
Terry PratchettA police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city.
Terry Pratchett