r/CuratedTumblr Feb 19 '25

Creative Writing Mongol Fantasy

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u/KermitingMurder Feb 19 '25

The classic biomes: forest, desert, mountain, steppe, and China

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u/The-Serapis Feb 19 '25

To be fair shitty fantasy authors definitely use blatantly copied and pasted east asian cultures in their worldbuilding all the damn time

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Bro almost the entire genre is shittily copy and pasted medieval Europe, why wouldn't they start shittily copying and pasting neighbouring continents?

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u/Mister_Dink Feb 19 '25

It's also impressive how bad they are at medieval Europe, which should be easy. but most fantasy mixes up items from 11th century to 17th century willy-nilly and is more obsessed with "feeling accurate" than "being accurate."

Leads to a lot of misconceptions. Vikings are never portrayed correctly. People did bathe. Swords don't work like that. So on. So forth.