Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

the dude over here giving an entire theogony just to tell a story about a yokai

AND ANOTHER THING

folktales never bother introducing cultural heroes or significant deities. the assumption of the folktale is that it is being told in a folk context where such cultural knowledges are already widespread. USE FOOTNOTES

if you aren't asking yourself the question “why is this story being told” throughout the entire process of putting together your folktale you are failing; it's not as simple as coming up with a cool story and sticking a folkloric wrapper on it

folktales can be cool stories!! but they're never JUST that; they're always informed by the agendas of the people telling the tale

i’m also bothered by the authorial voice thing in general like the point of a folktale is transmission of cultural knowledge it has different aims than an ordinary fanfic and it SHOULD be written differently

it just makes it feel childish to me like you can't trust the audience to figure out that this is a story without slamming them over the head with it at the beginning and end

“but how will people know it is a folktale if i don't situate it in the context of some fake imagined lore-sharing” idk have you tried switching up your authorial voice

META frame narratives are fine i’m talking about the obligatory five paragraphs at the beginning where some elder gathers a bunch of younglings around them and is like “now let me tell you a story…”

why can't fanfic authors writing folktales just be normal instead of shoehorning everything into a frame narrative

“kibi didn't you literally just publish the first chapter of a folktale collection which situates the entire thing as a frame narrative” THAT’S DIFFERENT

you ever like a thing but absolutely detest the fandom

how do you write an arranged marriage fic and rate it T

do you know what marriage is for

« "I'm twenty years old, though still a virgin," she said. "If you're too violent with me, I won't be able to bear it." When they finished making love, they noticed she'd bled little, which made the mattress wet. » glad to see this trope was alive and well in early qing dynasty china

« Outraged, the official pointed to their deity and scolded them, "The city god is supposed to serve the city. If it is too ignorant to cast its magic, or if it's just some disgusting ghost, then it doesn't deserve to be worshipped; even if it's a useful spirit, it should make economical use of resources and manpower—isn't it counter-productive to spend money on it, raised from collecting the residents' possessions?" When he'd finished speaking, he set the effigy on the ground and gave it twenty lashes. »

“TIME 4 CRAB” is a phrase with such raw feminine energy

still reeling from that time a pokémon trainer named Lilith with an ID of 036663 wonder traded me a Krabby named TIME 4 CRAB

i don't read leftist essays these days mostly because i don't want to hear or know about people who think having a twitter account and being good at writing are all it takes to entitle one to an opinion