• JaggedRobotPubes
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    85 days ago

    [said with the suggestion that this is bad] “There’s a pan-Celticism sort of situation that has developed in fantasy, where everybody thinks that all of that can be thrown in together - that’s Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, Manx, Cornish, the lot - and it just becomes one big amalgamation and anybody can pick anything they want out of that pot,” said Prof Fimi.

    That’s because it’s fine and they should do it freely anytime they want. This is such a god damn stupid article. Jesus Christ.

    Trash.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 days ago

      You underestimate how weird pop culture’s random assemblies are.

      You can’t just have characters from the Fenian Cycle meeting with characters from the Morte Dartur, that’s a mess.

      The fictional equivalent of what Robert Graves was doing. It’s just bad scholarship.