Sarelm's Corner

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

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That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

And this, children, is why you can't replace translation work with AI

i think people really under sell the physical side effects of mental health disorders sometimes. like sure the depression and anxiety may be 'just in your head' but when what's in your head happens to disrupts your sleep schedule and prevent you from going outside regularly and eating consistent meals and exercising and generally taking care of your body. well it sure takes its toll huh.

watched enough explosive friend group break ups that now every time some of my friends are kinda quiet towards me im like "damn what if theyre in a secret group chat compiling an extensive list of everything ive ever done wrong?" as if thats like a normal thing to experience in your friendships.

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

while playing DnD one time more than a decade ago we were about to get into combat and I said "I'm gonna nuke some dinos before shit gets real" meaning I was going to microwave some chicken nuggets before we rolled initiative and my wife loves this phrase so much I asked her for chicken nuggets just now and she asked if I wanted her to nuke some dinos before shit gets real but I do not want to have to wait until shit is about to get real I want the nugs now please