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@ajanefantasy
I don’t really say much on here, just reblog all the lovely pictures that I think fit my mood or remind me of various things in my stories. I feel like if I say anything it’ll sound like I’m complaining. But isn’t that sort of what one is suppose to do with such a space? Except I still feel like I’m complaining. So I guess I’ll keep reblogging all the lovely pictures that fit my mood and remind me of my stories.
Western capercaillie/tjäder. Värmland, Sweden (6 May 2023).
How does any of this help the MAGA voter?
I get how Trump gets paid and all the oligarchs get richer, but how does canceling csncer research help?
Pansies volunteering among the bricks on a day in June. I’m always amazed at what a single seed can do
Also his deeply underrated ability to clap back
Reminds me of that story about the teacher or lecturer or whatever who told their class "hey, the ceiling has 'gullible' written on it" and anyone who looked up discovered that yep, the word "gullible" really had been written on a piece of card and taped to the ceiling. And after letting that sink in for a while the teacher said something like "those of you who looked up have just demonstrated one of the most important tenets of research: check the source."
stuck together (on purpose) 🤩
#we need simulated endurance hunting for people like shit that's actually enriching for humans as a species#i would be so down for that. use this body the way its supposed to be used (tags via @falconheaded)
Do you have any idea how much I'd pay for a treadmill with a built-in persistence hunting simulator?? I would get on that thing every day
Duncan, the regretful 💧 Five of Cups
Had the pleasure of painting this piece and two others for @dragonageannual 2026 zine! It was so much fun working on this and seeing other people's art and writing!
Process under the cut
One Frozen Moment
(c) riverwindphotography, January 2026
sorry for acting so strange & irregular it will happen again
Wild boar/vildsvin. Värmland, Sweden (February 17, 2026).
me: does this fantasy setting have no misogyny or does it just have women in the warrior class
they: i dont understand
me: *explains in detail the difference between a fantasy setting w no misogyny n a fantasy setting where the creator just added women to the warrior class n put no further thought into it whatsoever*
they: *laugh* its a good fantasy setting, sir
me: *looks inside* *they just added women to the warrior class*
Explaining cause someone in the tags wanted to know:
A lot of fantasy worlds carry structural misogyny that mirrors our own world, that many readers take for granted, because we are not necessarily used to using the fictional space to imagine radically different worlds and consider what “no misogyny” looks like.
So for instance, even in worlds that an author might textually tell us “treat women equally”, and they prove it by having a woman be a warrior (“see? Women can do any job a man can do!”). But, if there’s no particularly different structure to society to handle domestic labour and childcare, then much like our modern world, it places a high burden on women to occupy dual roles in society. They must often be both carer and breadwinner (and also Hot, let’s not forget these settings always want all women to be Hot, and all “ugly” women are evil), while male protagonists are simply “themselves”. They are not truly equal with women because actually, they can look however they want, and also care work is not expected of them. It is rarely a constant passive part of their lives (when it is present, it is a very active part of their narrative, distinguishing them from the “norm” of the world). Women continue to occupy invisible roles in these narratives as the stay-at-home parents, the cooks in the kitchens, the hags, whose stories are unimportant to the narrative because they aren’t considered full and real people with rich interiority. The work of caring itself dehumanises them. The closest we typically get to valuing “carer roles” in fantasy is to create archetypes for the Healer, which are invariably very femme-coded and often tied to damsel-in-distress stories. (The Healer must often then distinguish herself from the devalued image of association with care work and femininity by becoming a warrior as well.)
And then, of course, there’s the uncritical reproduction of systems of violence and war that typically impacts women and other marginalised groups more than anyone else… because “fantasy”…
but the point isn’t to create an ever-moving bar here, because we could talk about all the ways in which this stuff shows up til the cows come home, but to talk about what it means to exercise the attempt to imagine what “no misogyny” looks like. Exploring the possibilities that open up when you ask, “what if childcare was structured communally instead of by individual families and how would that shape our heroes?” and “what if this society assigned gender roles differently/at a different age?” And “would a history in a different world full of female leaders conceive of territoriality differently compared to the Westphalian notion of the nation state as demarcated by men?”
If it starts and stops at warrior women, that’s no different from thinking feminism ended when women got the vote, or the right to die in the army. Fantasy is where our imaginations should explore possibilities, not be trapped by the limits and chains of our current political reality.
Happy Lunar New Year!
I was born in the year of the horse many moons ago and this year is also the fire element so I've painted a fire horse in the style of traditional Chinese watercolor~
Will you be doing anything special to celebrate? I'm far away from my birthland but I will try to make tangyuan 🤤
Happy year of the horse 🐴🐾🤍
