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oidheadh-con-culainn · 1 year ago

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i do think it's kind of funny that ao3 seems to have made a blanket change to all the "mythology" tags to make them "religion and lore" (not a good change) EXCEPT the "arthurian mythology" tag, which remains intact despite a Number of people trying to get that one reworked or at least different wrangled for ages. they're like "we're taking mythology away from all the contexts where it might be applicable. and leaving it in the context where it's dubious. this is a sensible change"

#Choices Were Made #genuinely very funny that they left that one specifically #extremely annoying that they changed the others #especially the (dubiously correct) use of irish and welsh #when the Norse tag etc does not use any language except english #so it feels weirdly othering #especially because the exact translation of the irish doesn't match the english #like béaloideas is not simply 'lore'. it is far more specific than that.#so it doesn't feel like a carefully thought through change #not to mention “ancient” which. crucially. they have not used for the norse tag #so it's only the irish and welsh material that's ancient huh?? those are not living traditiona to you huh???#it's arbitrary inaccurate and problematic #also can they stop making the Ulster Cycle tag redirect into the general tag please !!!#that's like making captain america redirect into the general mcu tag... it's a venn diagram not a circle...#i want to be able to look for other ulster cycle fics and not scroll through twenty pages of 'assorted fandom plus fairies'#which is what dominates the irish mythology as-was tag and why i never found it browseable #but the new one is like. no actually i am not writing fic of 'ancient irish religion and lore'#that's not at all what I'm writing about #i am writing about medieval irish literature #'irish mythology' was never my favourite tag but god it was better than this

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