So I'm not going to delete my blog, but I really don't post here all that often anymore. I'm kind of just abandoning it? I have a lot of stuff on here I don't want to bother going through and saving/deleting, so I'm gonna just leave everything as is. The only other social media I have is Instagram, where I post art, food, dog, and travel pics. Username is 'atimeforwolves' of any mutuals or followers want to check ot out thanks!
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Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
Princess Mononoke (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
I got marshmallows in your cocoa.
happy valentines day yall i found this in my images the other day and i hope i choke on these lucky charms and die
almost that time agian
This is just regular Danton, I don’t get it.
If you’re going to try and make your medieval fantasy world full of Gritty Realism, then by definition you have to show the positive parts of the time period you’re trying to emulate.
People are very happy to fill their books with bloodshed, homophobia, misogyny, and a nauseating, weirdly voyeuristic (and inaccurate) amount of sexual assault, but are hesitant to touch on the artistic and philosophical legacy of the Middle Ages. Where are the musicians? Where are the frequent church-sanctioned holidays? Where are the innovators and the humourists? Where is your Gritty Realism for the good things?
There are a couple of problems with this whole approach to writing.
1) If you’re apparently going for realism in the first place, why pick fantasy?
2) Given that this is fantasy, why lean on the same prejudices as in our world? You have invented your setting, it’s entirely in your power to change the social dynamics. If you do choose a world with the same social issues that we dealt with (and still do), to what end are you showing those? So your fantasy society is, say, xenophobic…why? If you’re making a point and challenging that view to some sort of conclusion, that makes sense. If it’s there, but not explored, why have it? This is a story, and the rules are different than life. Themes that carry that much weight can’t just be laid on and left there. The issue doesn’t have to be solved, but it can’t be static.
Seconded. If there’s no joy in your “medieval” world, I’m not interested.
Copying and pasting your tags because they’re perfect:
Gardens! Colourful food! Everyone eating bacon! Apprentices going on strike because they are SICK OF EATING FISH! Books! Guilds! Festivals plays market-days and fairs and mummers and lawyers and religious arguments and dancing (and none of that TV/movie takes on the volta and all of that, oh no, gimme the peasants’ version where big hefty farmer boys tossed their big hefty gfs up into the air and caught them again) COLOURFUL CASTLES WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS DREARY AND DARK MY GOD has no one heard of tapestries. Or PAINT.
And. Let. Them. Wear. Gaudy AF. Colours.
Historical accuracy seems inaccurate to people that have been trained to see the same drabby Ye Olde Mittel Ages setting again and again AND AGAIN. It has efficiently created a feedback loop wherein actual period-accurate costumes would seem out of place because they are TOO colorful and TOO cheerful.
…plus they’re cowards and don’t want us to have men in skintight, multi-patterned hose, or buff-legged farmers working in the fields with their shirts tucked up.
SHOW US MEN’S LEGS YOU COWARDS!!!
Exactly! Medieval men loved showing off their legs, let’s respect their legacy.
y’all will call healthy coping methods ableist (going outside & getting fresh air, cleaning your room, taking a shower, journaling) but then say lashing out at your partner or friends is an okay coping method so do you ACTUALLY want to get better or do you just want an excuse to be an asshole
Ajak Deng — born in 1989 — South Sudan
real estate agent: so what kind of property are you looking for?
me: a simple cave with fewer goblins than most
