someone online: everybody calm down, we’re going to be fine! :))) we’ve weathered worse than this! :) :) :) :) really all this panic just seems like a huge overreaction imho
I’m so sorry to bring this to attention, though it’s important
Please don’t feel bad for bringing it to attention, Jewish Tumblr has been talking about it and trying to get people to pay attention. Outside of Jewish bloggers this stuff usually gets ignored
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.
hey, shoutout to trans men and women who at some point identified as nonbinary and to nonbinary people who at some point identified as trans men and women. your journeys are your own. you are valid. you are doing nothing wrong