On one hand it makes sense that medieval european social relations imply, well, medieval european social relations and it makes sense to use your novel (or your show) to examine those.

On the other I can relate to many people wanting to see women in medieval fantasy to be represented in some other way than constant misery porn.

The tweet.

  • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    As another user said, if your worldbuilding is based on materialist conception of history then it’s going to necessarily involve class struggle and reaction. If your feudal world doesn’t have these then it’s very disconnected from how reality works and it endorses an idealist view of history if you can just edit out the parts of reality you don’t like when they should be there based on the conditions. This is the primary way that monarchists and reactionaries push their ideology, they make up a clean fantasy world and say that’s what happened instead of the reality.

    Writing a bunch of feudal fantasy fiction where there’s no reaction is Disneyfied monarchist propaganda