today my teacher said “we’re gonna do a new poem form today called a sonnet” and i said “sonnet the hedgehog” way louder than i intended to and everyone stared at me and that was a low point
the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise – what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that
Tolkien had the time apparently
LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
also a fact: a!bro doesn’t have a middle name but periodically adds, deletes, and replaces the middle name on his wiki page for Good Kicks. previous offenders include:
Dave Sizzlin’ Strider
Dave AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Strider
Dave Strider-Strider-Strider-Strider Strider
Dave The Rock Strider
Dave McSexMan Strider
Dave Please Stop Banning Me Strider
Dave You Can’t Silence The People Strider
Dave
So Help Me God I Will Destroy The Dastardly Corporate Fuckjacks Who Have Staged A Coup Of This Here Wikipedia Page Strider
Dave I’m Sorry Corporate Fuckjacks Please Continue To Fund Me And My Gratuitous Selling Out Thx!! xoxo Strider