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iriscasefiles · 2 years ago

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a word of advice to anyone writing sci-fi or fantasy for the first time: take it from me, maybe don't come up with key worldbuilding details on the basis of making obscure jokes that are literally funny to you and only you

#yes i am subtweeting myself here #brian describing ferin as dwarnian hannukah i could kick myself!#literally my thought process was 'it would be funny to subvert the concept of likening extraterrestrial holidays to christian ones'#except i didn't think about it hard enough to remember that Hannukah isn't an important religious day to Jewish people #(and to the extent that it is culturally important as i understand it this comes largely from the fact that #gentiles assume since Hannukah is a winter-y holiday with some gift-giving it is Jewish Christmas)#so either ferin isn't a big deal at all #or krejjh is from some minority dwarnian subculture that has different holidays and ferin's been culturally given some outsized importance #i could have opened wikipedia and in FOUR SECONDS found a holiday that wouldn't have put me in this bind #or i could've not tried so hard to be clever #i have been turning this over all morning and i 1000% did this to myself #gahhhh

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