No cats. Dogs are rare. Cats are seen as bringers of disease and baby eaters (which they honestly kind of are, lizardfolk babies are much smaller than a human infant, perfectly preysized. And gram-negative bacteria found in mammal saliva covers their whole body thanks to groomig. I like cats but they would be terrifying to most sapient reptiles and birds)
Insectkeeping like bees, ants, and termites is big. (Fun fact, tegu lizards love honey.)
No crop fields, but do change landscape and encourage the growth of certain plants.
Do grow plants in pots, for medicine, spices and garnishes. (Pink flowers are the equivalent of parsley or a lemon)
Fowl are domesticated so that thier own breeding season matches up with the lizardfolks, so the lizardfolk have a ready supply of eggs to feed the hatchlings.
Several speceies of birds and snakes have been domesticated , or likely domesticated themselves, as guardians of lizardfolk nests. Their own eggs are taken away and they are placed in a lizardfok nest which they will then guard until hatching.
I eagerly await for the time when a Muslim owned business tries to impose it’s constitutionally protected “religious freedoms” over Christian employees…I am soo certain the US Supreme Court will stand right behind them too😒
This place just keeps getting worse and worse.
Because I don’t think people know about this suit.
Reminder that Hobby Lobby is discriminatory and also the company was found guilty of illegally smuggling artifacts from the middle East.
Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).
Lmaooo peak white feminist antics.
You can read the most accurate transcript here, alongside the racist edited one.
I have studied this in multiple women’s studies classes taught by white professors and they never once mentioned this. Yikes.
in my junior history seminar (taught by a jewish professor) we read both versions and had to write a paper on revisionism and reasons why gage may have done it while also being a prominent abolitionist and editor of an anti-slavery newspaper. i’m pretty sure my conclusion was “she needed to shut the fuck up and print sojourner truth’s real words.”
I’ve seen some posts going around on what not to write in fantasy, many of which amount to:
Don’t write evil kings.
Don’t write people who are evil for the sake of evil.
Don’t write bullies.
Don’t write villains at all actually.
Don’t write mentors.
Don’t let your characters learn how to do hard things on their own though.
Don’t write people on adventures.
Don’t write people fighting evil governments.
Don’t write any fantasy species ever written before.
Don’t write any fantasy trope ever written before.
Don’t write any fantasy plot ever written before.
Just… don’t fucking write fantasy I guess??
And this is such utter bullshit, my friends.
We do need more originality and diversity in fantasy, but we don’t need to remove everything that fantasy is and has been in the process.
(Especially, especially, when diversity is being included in traditionally cishet white male protagonist fantasy stories.)
Maybe the chosen one with special magic powers and a royal bloodline going on a quest with a group of friends to defeat the evil king has been done before with a white cis man a thousand times over, but how many times has a black trans woman got to go on that adventure?
Maybe elves and orcs have been written into the dust, but they still make great templates on which to tell stories with original twists, and there’s nothing about them that stops a good, emotional story from hitting you straight in the heart.
Maybe dragons have been done by every writer ever to write fantasy, but you know what? Dragons are fucking awesome, my dudes. Many readers are always gonna love them.
Maybe we have told the same fantasy stories over and over again, but every step you take away from the known template is a step you have to spend more and more exposition on before the reader will understand your original creation.
So don’t let anyone make you feel like that your (inclusive) fantasy story is too ‘traditional’ to be good. As long as you produce a well written story you’ve put your heart into, it’ll be a story many readers will love.
Yuurgiri would indpendently invent “noodling” and elegantly catch fish with her feet, making Junko have to stop her lest a fish possibly swim off with one of her toes.
Tae would do her best impression of a bear, or a baryonyx.
…Actually they probably never should let Tae watch Jurassic Park.
Monsters and Stuff 