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shih-coulda-had-it · 4 months

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my sister and i made a book bingo for 2024 and one of the categories she chose was romantasy and i rarely, rarely do this, but i MUST tell you that my pick for romantasy (a far wilder magic by allison saft) has me looking up one-star reviews on goodreads to validate my feelings.

#shihpost #how do you write a book about teenage romance #and think 'you know what i can give a primer in? settler-colonialism'#except it's not even about colonists vs indigenous population #oh no. the indigenous population simply never exists #instead it's about the fantasy anglo-saxon protestants (new albian katharists)#grumping and hate criming fantasy irish catholics (sumic banvishmen) and fantasy ethnic jews (yu'adir)#and then they KILLED THE INDIGENOUS SPIRIT #FOR PRAGMATIC REASONS YES OKAY BUT ALSO. WHAT A STATEMENT???#people have described it as a royai (fma) fic with a facelift #because the setting borrows largely from fma down to the technology available to its people #but it's wild to me that nowhere in allison saft's worldbuilding inspiration was bipoc #queer relationships exist without question here!! you couldn't distill fantasy asia or fantasy africa??

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