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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      penitent admirer Retweeted Arthur Chu

      This is a big reason I don't think I'll ever write real world urban fantasy if I ever get a writing career going and feel uncomfortable about it as a genre in games and fiction.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1311378729378041856 …

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      Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affect
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Anonversations
      It's a generally shitty thing white writers do to treat real life cultures they consider foreign as just bodies of "lore" for them to mine and then to remix and recontextualize as they see fit, as though other countries are just fairytale kingdoms from children's stories
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    2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      Like I'm not gonna tell anyone to stop, honestly, but it's just so much easier to avoid some of the problems in a constructed world. So oftrn urban fantasy involves either appropriation and misuse, or it involves decreeing *everyone* textually wrong about How The World Works.

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    3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      And notably "ok so every spiritual tradition is wrong" a la World of Darkness is actually Not Less Offensive - it comes down harder on marginalized groups who only HAD their cultural or religious tradition to fall back on.

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    4. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      "Ok so you know how you struggled for centuries to preserve your traditions and spiritual customs in a world determined to stamp it out as superstition & falsehood?" "Yes, Clued In Elite Who See The True Shape of Reality?" "Yeah about that, they were right." "What."

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    5. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      "Don't worry they were wrong too, though, the real shape of Reality is [some asshole brand new deity]/[some weird LSD fever dream]/[something still totally matching the experiences of White Cishet Christians]." "Is that supposed to help?"

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    6. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      This isn't something I'm going to yell at everyone to Stop Doing it Urban Fantasy is Now Banned. It's always gonna be a problem given the actual diversity of human cultures & spirituality! Representation is HARD, & constructed worlds still spring from varied traditions.

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    7. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      But urban fantasy, by dint of being set in (superficially) the real world, is making a statement about that real world, and saying "oh, so all these marginalized religions AND the hegemonic ones are wrong, reality actually looks like a 90s video game" has disproportionate impact.

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    8. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020

      And it just so happens that in many cases the fantasy-cosmoses of these worlds are *still implicitly Christian-centric*. The example @arthur_affect was using a while back about how the WoD still ends up pivoting on the Christian "Lucifer tries to cause a Christian apocalypse."

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent

      He's not trying to cause it, he's trying to prevent it

      12:15 PM - 30 Sep 2020
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        1. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 30 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Reality is still pivoting utterly upon this dynamic of an Antichrist, a Lucifer, and an end of the world that fits *more* into the Christian mold than everything else.

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