#the book poor things tackled the intertwined relationship between scotland and england and their creation of the british empire
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thedailydescent · 14 days ago
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i'm really tired right now and this will be incoherent but highlander bodice rippers, the movie poor things, using scottish folktales in your work when you're not scottish.
this of course goes for everyone who takes stuff from cultures that are not their own to use in their work: removing all the context of when, where, and WHY these things were written, dumbing down or erasing the historical elements completely, and you're left with something unoriginal and empty, easily consumed by the masses. because you just really wanted to write something sexy or scary, but like...surface level.
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