And to the rest of the people who celebrate an important day in December that i’m not aware of, or to the people who just enjoy this time of the year, Happy Holidays!
if you’re a straight girl and you only ship gay relationships and completely ignore lesbian ones, that’s a problem, that’s fetishization, and you don’t get to decide that it isn’t
Also, when you exclusively ship white m/m relationships at the expense of interracial relationships, then you’re not only likely fetishizing m/m relationships but erasing/ignoring POC representation and hiding behind insincere allyship to do so.
Something that’s almost never covered in fantasy mediums is common names.
Like we all know fantasy names are unusual, but any name to a foreign culture is considered unusual English names to Indian people are very unusual for example. But naturally, given that it’s an entire culture, there will be some common names, it’d be refreshing to at one point here this exchange.
“So I was talking to Vicnae and-”
“Wait which Vicnae? You can’t just say Vicnae. There are ten Vicnae’s in my village alone.”
This has 100 notes yesterday and 300 this morning what the fuck happened.
People understand the truly important things.
DSA (a German fantasy P&P RPG) actually has the name Alrik, which is hugely popular in the universe. Everyone is Alrik.
This is also a great excuse to use “X the Y” or “X of Y” type names without being pretentious. Calling someone “Thognor The Stout” goes from pomposity to practicality if he lives down the road from Thognor The Small.
my family is from a town in Ireland where everyone has the last name Ryan. literally like everyone. so they differentiated families by calling them by their professions, right?
imagine proposing to someone and they say, “before i answer, you need to know my darkest secret” and then they tell you that they are the author of “my immortal”
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.