buckykat [none/use name]

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Cake day: August 21st, 2023

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  • Later in the same conversation we get:

    “On the one hand, that social order lasted for millennia. The idea that it’d continue for another three centuries isn’t exactly hard to swallow,” I said. “However… There were other things changing, too. Industrialization, the Scientific Revolution, the Dragon Wars… In the end? I don’t know. We’ll never know. The Rosewood Kingdom is gone. King Lysander Rosewood is dead, his legacy reduced to blood in the gutter and dust on the wind. But…” I sighed. “…Maybe we can make it that way, someday. Maybe we can build a better tomorrow, a world without hunger, where all want for naught. But we don’t live there yet. And the path is long, winding, and poorly lit.”

    This shit is communist propaganda and I mean that in the most positive sense possible.


  • RoyalRoad slop recommendation:

    What Little Remains of Terpsichore Ironheart, which I previously recommended about a month ago, is now in book 2 and only getting better. One of my favorite things it does it take classic fantasy/mythology tropes and recontextualize them within a historical materalist framework. Like, elves-as-trickster-fae-who-steal-people-away-in-the-night is explained thusly:

    “Elves got new things by either making those things themselves, or as a favor from a friend or a neighbor. Elves considered money to be a saddening way to abstract away the delicate, interconnected social fabric of a community, of people helping each other out because it was the right thing to do, they didn’t have anything better going on, or even just because the help would take the form of an activity they enjoyed.”

    “It sounds… It sounds like a fairy tale,” Faith murmured.

    “Yeah, humans wrote a lot of fairy tales about elves,” I said quietly. “A lot of stories about the elves stealing humans away are… Not completely fictitious. Elves didn’t have a social practice of kidnapping humans, of course- that’s a stupid thing to do- but we did have a social practice of taking in lost strangers and treating them like our own. Plenty of humans found themselves without a place in the society that raised them, and decided… Fuck it, I’ve heard about the elves and their excess and plenty. Let’s go see if they’ll take me. And they did! Consistently, without fail, the High Elves would accept humans into their midst, accept them into their families. Half-elves were always pretty common.”