inspiration blog for MissJamieKaye

Do you like rabbits?

Older women are so, so beautiful, and older trans women are no exception. Celebrate the beauty of our elders! Celebrate trans beauty!

I wish more fantasy settings had the stuff discworld does. I don't mean the big themes, although I do wish more books had those too. I mean fantasy settings where there are newspapers, birth control, pizza, vibrators, crisps, unions, dog biscuits, fan clubs... just normal stuff that turns up when you have a lot of people in one place. A lot of fantasy seems to take the view that you won't have any of this stuff if you've got magic, but why wouldn't you? Some fantasy settings don't even have pencils. And what about toilet paper? Food that isn't enormous, elaborate feasts? Literacy rates? Pop culture? It feels like Ankh-Morpork in particular is just ticking over as usual when we're not looking and that it really does have a million people in it. And yet sometimes other fantasy just... doesn't bother with any of this stuff at all.

Yes, this! Ancient Rome had take out. Ancient Sumerians had complaint letters about folks who shorted them on substandard copper. People wrote stupid graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. There were children who doodled dogs in the edges of their books as far back as children had books. The monks illuminated manuscripts had cat paw prints where they got into the ink. People have been people for all of history and sure, there are grand sweeping empires, but inside the empires are little stories about the actor who messed up his line in Orestes.

Discworld Heritage Post

I haven’t watched DS9 and had to look up backstory, but this is an exceptional monologue.

The fact that you did that without having seen the show blows my mind, thank you???? aaaa