Almost every fantasy world is based on Earth in some way, really.
This is also true. Even China Miéville's stuff takes inspiration from various world myths in terms of cosmology. But that is probably inevitable: We are human, after all.
i'd give you naneypoints for finding the source of the quote, but you already have all the naneypoints
"I feel like people overstate the Stormcloaks’ racism. Some of them are racist, yes, there is no denying that. But Ulfric fights for what he believes is a noble cause, as do the soldiers. He’s been put through hell fighting for what he believes in, and there are doubtlessly some heavy emotional scars that fuel his views of others. Soldiers on both sides of the war display an almost disturbing glee at the thought of killing members of the opposite faction. ‘Skyrim belongs to the Nords’? A generic battle cry for the race. Even Lydia shouts it during fights. The treatment of the Dunmer in Windhelm, while upsetting, could be helped if they would get up and try to work. In other cities in Skyrim, the Dunmer members of society actually try to act as members of their communities, and are treated as such. Even inside Windhelm, there are elven people who are respected because they work. The Argonians are kept separate from the Dunmer for their own safety, due to heavy tension between the two races. Even if the Imperials do win, this is explicitly stated. I still like to imagine my character would do something to help resolve the situation after the war, but it isn’t purely because of hatred that they’re segregated. As a Dunmer Stormcloak, I have respect for my allies, and they’ve shown nothing but respect for me in return.”
What are you doing with your life that required you to spend all that time on this paragraph.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Almost every fantasy world is based on Earth in some way, really.
This is also true. Even China Miéville's stuff takes inspiration from various world myths in terms of cosmology. But that is probably inevitable: We are human, after all.
i'd give you naneypoints for finding the source of the quote, but you already have all the naneypoints
Thank you.
The interesting thing about China Miéville is that just as he wrote that paragraph, he has written equally potent praise of Tolkien's subtler contributions to the fantasy genre. If anything, he is far angrier at what Tolkien's followers and their failure to think critically or innovate than he is at Tolkien or his works.
sometimes the worlds look very familiar to us, but they are never the real world, and there is still a craft in making the most reality-like world seem real on the page, and bringing it to life
even writing non-fiction can involve a degree of scene-setting which requires the use of the author's imagination. Non-fiction without worldbuilding is often very dry and alienating.
and the best poems create a world of their own for the reader to inhabit, even if it's only a tiny world that collapses once the poem ends
"Let me be clear here. There is no excuse for the sort of extremist folk social justice crusades one can find on Tumblr or Twitter or Freethought Blogs. With a few treasured exceptions they are full of nasty and hateful people devoid of intellectual integrity and basic human kindness, and I am suitably embarrassed to be in the same 50%-or-so of the political spectrum.
Then again, there are lots of nasty and hateful conservatives and reactionaries devoid of intellectual integrity and basic human kindness too. Go take a look at Free Republic. Maybe we can call it a tie?"
On the one hand Tumblr is mean to my pasty white nerd ass, on the other hand, nazis, let's call it even.
reality for the modern human being is different from what it was in the days of Homer, or even of Shakespeare
i mean, there was a time when 'here be dragons' sounded plausible; people might not necessarily have believed it, but they could suspend their disbelief with little effort because there was a lot of world out there that hadn't been explored
in the modern globalized, secularized society, it's not enough to say that ghosts walk among the living, or that Faerie lies just around the corner, not when we know what's in the sky and what's in the atom, and we have satellites mapping every inch of the Earth and people carrying phones with cameras in then wherever they go and the media informing us of events on the other side of the planet more or less as they happen
if you wish to write a fantasy and set it in London last week, you have to convince the reader that magic existed in London last week, and that means explaining where it was and why it wasn't mentioned on BBC News
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
NEXT TIME
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
sometimes the worlds look very familiar to us, but they are never the real world, and there is still a craft in making the most reality-like world seem real on the page, and bringing it to life
even writing non-fiction can involve a degree of scene-setting which requires the use of the author's imagination. Non-fiction without worldbuilding is often very dry and alienating.
and the best poems create a world of their own for the reader to inhabit, even if it's only a tiny world that collapses once the poem ends
It's fun
i think some things, some characters and concepts, just can't really inhabit a realistic world, at least not without making it seem unreal
this does not mean they aren't worth exploring
Then again, there are lots of nasty and hateful conservatives and reactionaries devoid of intellectual integrity and basic human kindness too. Go take a look at Free Republic. Maybe we can call it a tie?"
On the one hand Tumblr is mean to my pasty white nerd ass, on the other hand, nazis, let's call it even.
Kill all math nerds.
and i hate that i can't just say this without fighting the urge to put in a disclaimer distancing myself from SJWs on tumblr
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i mean, there was a time when 'here be dragons' sounded plausible; people might not necessarily have believed it, but they could suspend their disbelief with little effort because there was a lot of world out there that hadn't been explored
in the modern globalized, secularized society, it's not enough to say that ghosts walk among the living, or that Faerie lies just around the corner, not when we know what's in the sky and what's in the atom, and we have satellites mapping every inch of the Earth and people carrying phones with cameras in then wherever they go and the media informing us of events on the other side of the planet more or less as they happen
if you wish to write a fantasy and set it in London last week, you have to convince the reader that magic existed in London last week, and that means explaining where it was and why it wasn't mentioned on BBC News
other times i think the world is fascinating, but i'm simply too dense to grasp it
neither seems conducive to me being a writer
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead