thetownsendsw

[thetownsendsw]

yeah im still thinking about the minotaur sorry but just . imagine youre born wrong. imagine your entire existence is a punishment from the gods. for something you had no control over. imagine your mother holds nothing but contempt for you. she wont even look at you, not really, & she keeps crying & you keep crying & reaching towards her with your little arms & someone drags you away from her. & they keep you hidden & alone & a stranger comes & builds an impenetrable prison around you so youre doomed to forever haunt these endless corridors & youve never known kindness or companionship or love. & when they call you a monster. well. you believe them

#mythology

[thetownsendsw]

I'm always criticizing eurocentric fantasy worldbuilding, but one thing I think it's underused are city-states and trade republics and leagues. Not that they don't exist, but they're often in the background, the fantasy genre is so focused on monarchies and dynasties and noble drama, while those systems have so much room for intrigue and stuff without getting into "who's the TRUE heir of the super magical monarch" (yes, I know they had aristocratic families that ruled almost as monarchs, but trust me, Medici drama is another beast from regular feudal stuff)

Venice with its stupidly complex election system and their eternal rivals in Genoa, Florence home of the Rennaissance, the Hanseatic League, and lesser known examples like Novgorod, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Taifa of Córdoba, the Consolat de Mar (technically not a republic but kind of an Iberian Hansa) and if we go farther back, the leagues of city states of antiquity... you know what, I'm bored of feudalism. Next time I do a fantasy setting, it will all be city states and republics. Fuck feudalism.

#worldbuilding #fantasy #renaissance fantasy

[thetownsendsw]

dana akdjfjckfjfm

[thetownsendsw]

Just had the guy claiming Peter S. Beagle stole his new book come through my shop, ranting about it, how he has 3,000 pages of evidence and the British publisher already pulled it, and calling Beagle, towards whom he’s been found liable for elder abuse and fraud, a “bastard”.

Cause you know, ranting to a random clerk at the airport four minutes before closing makes you sound SO convincing!

#bookseller #bookshop life #peter s beagle

[thetownsendsw]

I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :)

#art

[thetownsendsw]

Why is this a Shel Silverstein poem?

Just saw a pigeon walking around with no head

[thetownsendsw]

the problematic girlboss bracket: round three!

propaganda is encouraged!

#I don’t usually bother with these but #faithsweep

[thetownsendsw]

#proudly support the Long Coat + Big Hat-iarchy

[thetownsendsw]

A Tiger and His Boy

[thetownsendsw]

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

#us politics #current events

[thetownsendsw]

I know I'm a bit late to saying this but frankly if I found out a secret society of magic-users were just playing nonsense sports and making up slurs for the rest of us instead of helping us out with famines or leukemia I think I'd apply for a job with my local witch hunters

[thetownsendsw]

[thetownsendsw]

Ironically all 3 of the books I was vaguing in that post for being cozy and charming in a way that bores me uncritically establish a vaguely Christian cosmology and then just don't get into the larger implications which also annoys me.

[thetownsendsw]

#art #history

[thetownsendsw]

🕯.

🕯. 🕯

🕯 prayer circle 🕯

🕯 for a housing 🕯

🕯 market 🕯

🕯 collapse 🕯

🕯.

[thetownsendsw]

#what have I done

#mythology

[thetownsendsw]