look, it's easy, okay? High Fantasy has An Hero whose Destiny is Sword, and Low Fantasy has Some Schmoe whose Job is Sword.
expanding it to a full matrix: Sword And Sorcery has An Hero whose Job is Sword, and YA Fantasy has Some Schmoe whose Destiny is Sword.
wow, this is an exceptionally effective taxonomy.
Sephardic Jews from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1900s. National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, National Library of Israel, The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
Where can I find you if Tumblr shuts down?
bottom of a deep oceanic trench
fallen behind the fridge
Denny's parking lot
mysterious forest glade
mushroom circle
prophetic dreams
Myspace
There's something I've repeatedly seen with posts TTRPG blogs like @thydungeongal or @anim-ttrpgs make/reblog - most recently with that "mental gymnastics" meme - where the post will tell people to play another game instead of going through the effort of squeezing D&D's square block into their campaign's round hole, and inevitably, people will comment "or just pirate D&D books!", which just... doesn't make sense? Pirating the books doesn't make the game better! It's like seeing someone eat soup with a fork and instead of telling them to use a spoon, you tell them to shoplift their forks.
But then I realized something. That's just another symptom of D&D players seeing playing TTRPGs as activism. When they see someone saying "play another game", they mentally add "...because WotC is a bad company!" even if the post very explicitly says "...because D&D is a bad game (for this kind of gameplay)!"
I have no real conclusion for this. It's just stupid.
So I finally decided to archive-lock my fics on AO3 last night. I’ve been considering it since the AI scrape last year, but the tipping point was this whole lore.fm debacle, coupled with some thoughts I’ve been thinking regarding Fandom These Days in general and Fandom As A Community in particular. So I wanna explain why I waited so long, why I locked my stuff up now, and why I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a-okay with making it harder for people to see my stories.
"So when I say maybe fandom should start gatekeeping a bit, I’m referring to the fact that we barely even have a gate anymore. Everyone is on the internet now; the entire world can find us, and they don’t need to bother learning community etiquette when they do. Before, we were protected by the fact that fandom was considered weird and most people didn’t look at it twice. Now, fandom is pretty mainstream. People who never would’ve bothered with it before are now comfortable strolling in like they own the place. They have no regard for the fandom community, they don’t understand it, and they don’t want to. They want to treat it just like the rest of the content they consume online."
I just want to highlight this paragraph OP wrote because I think it's so so critical and it's something I've been trying hard to articulate to myself and in conversations with others. I am that person that's joked 'maybe we should start gatekeeping' but it's not a joke anymore.
Skeletor has forever destroyed our ability to come up with voices for skeleton characters.
this is like saying NASA has forever destroyed our ability to wonder what it's like on the moon. like we can still use our powers of imagination if we want to but the question's pretty much fucking settled.
wghatever the fuck this genre of tweet is i cant fucking stop saying mein scheiss Hund as a vocal stim
As someone who knows a fair amount of German I’m trying to translate these tweets myself and Scheiß can also be used for fuck as well as shit so it can also be “my fucking dog Tank of Peace is drifting 200 nautical miles off the Colombian coast” is a whole new level of funny too me
Please buy Eureka, the lead writer is claiming he's "denjipilled" instead of admitting there's no food in his house
