#trepang from the modern nt made it as far as china! | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ehlnofay · 21 days

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something that always really galls me in fantasy is the lack of cultural exchange... all part of the weird emphasis on race as like. a species difference. this one goes in this box that one goes in that box and never the twain shall meet. but you have different peoples living right next to each other over massive time scales and you're telling me there has been no intermingling? no sharing and melding of ideas aesthetics and customs? I'll kill you

#it feels so wild to me!!!#like even in difficult circumstances people interact and they learn from each other #like I'm thinking about the trade between the yolngu people and makasar trepang fishers. even though australia is geographically isolated #this shit happened!!#trepang from the modern nt made it as far as china!#to this day the word for money in yolngu matha is the same as in indonesian #and you mean to tell me that two fantasy cultures without so much as an ocean in between them don't talk. I'll kill you!!!!!!#anyway remind me to talk sometime about the hidden influence and association of namiira on bosmeri culture and religion

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