Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

@wallhackio in the roman colonies they had this feast called saturnalia where on the last night they would bake a bean into a loaf of bread and whoever got it became the lord of misrule

after christianization this tradition was moved to the end of christmastide, i·e epiphany i·e the day celebrating when the three gentile kings bore witness to jesus

consequently the cake is now known as kings cake

@coriander but it’s complicated. for example over the course of my lifetime publishers have decided to get really into dialogue and shied away from lengthy prose. this is BOTH because dialogue is easy to adapt to film AND because an audience which is more versed in film than literature is more comfortable reading dialogue exchanges than lengthy prose AND (and subsequently) because it is an aesthetic choice in a lot of YA, which preconditioned the preferences of a lot of heavy readers who grew up on the stuff

@coriander a slightly more accurate take would be that the amount of money in film adaptations of books means that publishers are looking for books which are easy to film-adapt, and YA just figured out that formula first

@coriander i mean it’s always been happening but increasingly so i think; a reductive but probably at least somewhat accurate summary is that YA’s popularity has resulted in publishers trying to make every other genre more like YA

@coriander it’d be more neutral if it wasn’t being pushed on authors by big publishing companies

@aescling sure but understand that people can do this with false revelations just as easily as true ones; that’s just persuasive writing

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