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"I cast Fire Shield" thematic AND hot

"I cast Crown of Stars" hot hot hot

"I cast two portals" hot and ominous

"I cast Grease" lol you're a level 20 wizard and you're buttering the floor

#manipulate him right back

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

I emphasize: DOES NOT mean that it is poorly written.

It does not mean the story is bad. Or the concept is bad. Or the words themselves are bad.

It means it is rough. It is unedited. It is not submittable, saleable, ready for publication. It's raw and messy and needs work.

As all first drafts do.

Even professionals at it for decades, dominating the industry, do not write a publishable piece of fiction when they sit down to write.

If you've seen videos of artists working from rough sketch to final piece you can compare the two.

Your first draft is bad because it is a draft.

Reminding new authors of this is a way to lessen the fear of perfection. To get out of your head and just write. To let them know it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be written. You can fix whatever you hate in revision. You're going to be revising anyway. No matter how great the first draft reads you will be revising it. Probably more than once. So don't worry if it isn't perfect first time out.

It is not meant to be an aggressive and cruel expectation or condemnation of beginners or some declaration that your first draft must be terrible or you've failed somehow.

That is asinine.

- "the term is gendered" (it's not, and feminine equivalents were sometimes created specifically for the purpose)

- "they didn't actually do things as knights" (who didn't? The Hatchet women fought the Moors. A few other Orders had women as masters of arms. Both martial and formal examples)

...and a few other reasons that come down to "I don't like imagining my manly men in steel had women in their ranks, girls have cooties".

And the reason I say this is because recently, Wikipedia updated their page on "Knight", specifically adding a section about women with the title of knighthood, and what function they performed. And I know: "Wikipedia is not an academic source"--but every academic institution will accept the sources and articles used to back up wikipages, which confirm what has been said.

I saw this and needed to answer.

The gendered versions of 'knight' come from Romance languages, and literally just change the word to fit the gender of the subject (within a binary). So it isn't like English, where a female knight has always been a 'Dame', but, using Spain as an example, the word for Knight in Spanish is 'Cabellero'. This is the default masculine.

The feminine word for Knight? 'Cabellera'.

Similarly in French: "Chevalier" becomes "Chevaliére".

In Italian, "Cavaliere" becomes "Cavaliera".

Outside of Romance languages, "knight" is just a title for a social rank, so even the English Dame is by default a knight by rank, but may not have the title (although not impossible).

Just a note about translations and ... well, patriarchal bullshit.

When you say "Hatchet women fought the Moors" I was like "hey, that seems to be part of my local history, how have I never heard about it?", and when I googled it ... I actually have heard about it, it's the Orden del Hacha from Catalonia (Orde de l'Atxa in the original Catalan). But ... there's something odd going on. Why the fuck in English they have translated like "Order or the hatchet"? You know, in Spanish and Catalan there's no really a difference between "Axe" and "Hatchet": There's a single word for them, "Hacha/Atxa". But in English, there's a difference. A Hatchet is a hand axe, pretty much the smallest one you can think of:

So It's pretty remarkable that whoever translated the name of the order to english first decided to use "Hatchet" and not "Axe". I'm pretty sure if this was a order of men warriors the name would have been pretty different. Specially when THIS was their coat of arms:

Five words on color choice: I don't give a fuck.

I love blue: it's been my color all my life.

Here's the back of the neck 💙