I am willing to tolerate a certain amount of "warrior culture" wank from my science fiction entertainment but the level KT took it to was genuinely uncomfortable
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Oh yeah she definitely bought into the mythos of the warrior ethos more than a little. Like I said it was nice to see things from another POV but I can definitely see why her books made people uncomfortable.
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Was it worse than the Mandalorian? I never read her books
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The Mandalorian is highly sympathetic to Mandalorians but it doesn't actually come off as believing they're superior to everyone else in the galaxy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Or, like, outright say that people would be happier and healthier growing up on Mandalore on self-sufficient farms than in the wretched hives of Coruscant
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Man you would really hate it, it was straight up blood and soil shit She decided the stuff about Mandos being raiders and predators was propaganda and that their way of life was every man having a self-sufficient homestead that he was prepared to defend by force himself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
TBH that sounds less Jeffersonian US and more Viking Era Iceland.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect and
She claimed she modeled them off the Picts but honestly we don't know much about the Picts.
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Replying to @nivenus @arthur_affect and
Yeah, we definitely don’t know enough about the Picts to model anything off.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @nivenus and
It's a bunch of propaganda about the Celts that honestly is fash-adjacent (Robert Howard was into similar ideas)
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She I think openly said she was inspired by people's accounts of Gaelic barbarians living in freedom and harmony with nature in contrast to the decadent, bureaucratic, slaveowning Romans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and
I guess the picts might have been Gaelic, and they might have been anti-slavery. We have no way of knowing really.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect and
Current scholarly consensus is the Picts were basically Welsh but less Romanized. Pictish inscriptions unmistakably are very similar to Brythonic (Old Welsh). The Gaels, like the Saxons, came later.
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