#it results in a lot of people completely unknowingly projecting shit over those real groups that they've internalized
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#“why do people from the same country have different accents”#and “why would there be a butcher in nevarra when Everyone (citation needed) is a vegetarian”#i know everyone is used to fantasy ethnostates#games generally do this because it is quick and easy#but like. folks. folks you'll never believe it.#different groups of the same ethnicity of human beings have different traditions and practices sometimes on a village by village level#like directly next to each other. take a half hour trip where i was born and the accent is different.#i wish sometimes people would look at the words they are writing#and then go. “huh that's a wild thing im saying”#“if i sub in any other group does this sound fucked up??"#this is a major ongoing fantasy worldbuilding problem though especially when people start by reaching for real world shorthands instead of#doing culture building work from scratch#fantasy spain. fantasy france. fantasy england. fantasy china. fantasy borderless peoples with mobile living lifestyles#it results in a lot of people completely unknowingly projecting shit over those real groups that they've internalized#generally i would say if you find yourself about to talk about a group as an unchanging monolith - even and especially if the work they#are from is doing this and it's not part of a greater structural point the text is making in doing so#then you owe it to yourself and the people around you to imagine a richer and more complex world than the one we have received a window int#people can be anything they want to be
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