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[adler-obsessed]

Hey there, been slowly crawling through your blog after reading a couple of your things (surprisingly came from your elden ring work but happy to discover you write for dragon age and star wars too). Do you work in heritage? I have really enjoyed how in depth a lot of your worldbuilding is regardless of what world you write for and wondered how that may have influenced your work.

I primarily work in archaeological fields! I’ve done jobs as assistant collection managers + european prehistory research roles too. I studied both archaeology and anthropology as an undergrad though so my thought process is very anthropological (though specifically UK trained, US anthro and arch is very different).

It’s definitely shaped my writing - not just in the sense of my understanding of culture and worldbuilding, but I would say it has changed the questions I ask myself as a writer. It comes out more in my original writing than my fanfics though I would say, since in that I am wholly focused on speculating about all the different ways we as humans could exist, such as political and familial structures, gender constructions or lack of, dissolution of nature/civilisation or biology/culture divides etc. Both disciplines help me really get into the cultural eye of a character as it were though.