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theonceandfuture · 1 month ago

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the stoneforged are my non-ableist replacement for "dwarves" (see here and here, i think bbc merlin has its own issue of ableism regarding characters with dwarfism) as a species in mythology. they are technically a type of elf (think lightforged = high elves, shadowforged = dark elves, minus the racism associated with the drow's writing)

hopefully, soon i'll have found the time to draw out my designs for some of the species prominent in albion, and i can reblog this post and add my personal designs for these species. keep in mind that i'll still have characters with dwarfism in this story! i don't think the solution to ableism is to erase the characters with dwarfism entirely (cough cough, disney's snow white), instead i've just been Normaler about it.

#honestly all of arthurian mythology has an ableism problem because sometimes it's really unclear if they mean fantasy dwarf or person with #dwarfism and either way it tends to he pretty fucking ableist!#a better source for the issue with disney's snow white remake would have been this one tiktoker with dwarfism who has a series unpacking #ableism targeted toward people with dwarfism but i couldn't find his videos!#<- i actually don't know if the consensus among the community of people with dwarfism prefers person first language that has kind of just #been pure instinct. not a concious choice. i know this creator said either way of referring to little people works but idk #okay anyway. context for this post is that this blog is dedicated to my heavily arthurian inspired bbc merlin rewrite. this world in genera #has all source of fantasy creatures and species but i haven't fleshed out all of them yet #once and future; a bbc merlin rewrite #my posts #text posts #ableism #dwarfism #genuinely idk how to properly tag this i feel like people will get mad if i put it in other tags #well. this project is rooted in arthuriana and bbc merlin and that's what i'm criticizing so. i guess just the usual tags? sorry guys #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin bbc #adventures of merlin #arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #dnd #dungeons and dragons #<- for the drow mention

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