real according to me

We increasingly live in a world without primary sources, or even secondary sources as the average creative is increasingly uncultured, only tertiary; ideas laundered until any context is sanded away. The median artist a dog that's never eaten food, only other dogs' vomit, some only their own vomit as franchises stumble through decades of self-referential undeath.

Unironically yeah. If you're paid to write, it is your responsibility to be knowledgeable about your subject, I don't want to read or play games about swordfights by people who know nothing about swords. I practice HEMA and have a stack of Joachim Meyer's 1570 treatises on my shelf, I don't expect that from everyone but I do expect something.

If you're a hobbyist, I won't stop you from making poorly informed art, but this kind of knowledge is required for good art.

There is no arbitrary cutoff point between uneducated and educated, education should be something you pursue for your entire life. I have a degree in history, but most of the reading I've done in life has been outside of university. You can get free physical books, e-books, and audiobooks at your local library or online. I have no respect for copyright and the utmost respect for knowledge shared universally in sisterly love.

If you have the time, energy, and privilege to create, then you have the time, energy, and privilege to learn, and I reccomend it wholeheartedly. You owe it to yourself and to any potential audience you want. It's fun and deeply rewarding.

I don't want ill-informed, derivative junk, whether it was made by hand or by a machine. Nor do I want everything to perfectly mimic reality, but you need to understand something to subvert it.

athiest magical girl: Using the special powers granted to me by this mysterious artefact I will help the innocent!

Nope, it's actually real