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aeide-thea · 11 months

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god i forgot abt this but seeing hands of the emperor fic on my dash just now reminded me of like. learning abt māori pepeha and how you pronounce whānau and having the sudden realization 'oh you just fully appropriated that for your book, didn't you'

#like. riffing on a culture isn't necessarily Bad—#that kj parker walled city book is like. riffing heavily on rome the whole time #(although like. i didn't have a Problem with that but it WAS a little like. what's yr point. are you going somewhere with this.)#(afaict no‚ he wasn't really going anywhere with it‚ he just thought it was tasty-crunchy.)#—but i do think if i were‚ you know‚ a white westerner writing Fantasy Pacific Islanders #i might at the very least include a note somewhere in my unedited million page book about stuff i was including #that a lot of people might not know was uh. Heavily Derived from an actual irl marginalized culture #anyway i don't know that i have a point here it really was just like. *deeply* jarring to me when i learned that #& jarring again to be reminded of it #so. making it all of yr problem too ig 👍#bookblogging

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