#i can say this bc im a fantasy author btw. historical fiction authors get your SHIT together | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mqfx · 2 months ago

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sidenote: I think it's funny when ppl are like "but back in the day" etc etc when the story is Fantasy. there is no "back in the day" we are making it up. not a comment about the ask I got btw I am talking about g/o/t fans who justify the age gap marriages with "BUT BACK IN THE MEDIEVAL TIMES" like bro? 1st of all even they didn't and second of all how does that matter this is a novel some guy wrote not a historical treatise and 3 GRRM did that to make a point not bc he wants you to ship it??? anyway

#hewwo #for more on this ''realism in fiction'' debate go check out auerbach and pavel they beef about it iirc #my old man (and by extension i) fall into the pavel camp #which is: ''a story does not need to be realistic to be meaningful. something doesn't have to be Real to be True''#i can say this bc im a fantasy author btw. historical fiction authors get your SHIT together #you can use anachronisms but ONLY if it fits the vibe. like bloody jack #that bitch was historically inaccurate as hell and lowkey a bit orientalist (she had a filipino boy servant named paradiso.)#but goddamn i loved that series

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