Evangeline Sorrel

@forestoath.bsky.social

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24 / Trans Lesbian / TTRPG + SFF literature enthusiast / leftist / writer 🌿 (she/it) https://ko-fi.com/forestoath

Assumption 3: Fantasy by definition concerns a Battle Between Good and Evil. This is the one where the cover copywriters shine. There are lots of fantasies about the Battle Between Good and Evil, the BBGE, sure. In them, you can tell the good guys from the evil guys by their white hats, or their white teeth, but not by what they do. They all behave exactly alike, with mindless and incessant violence, until the Problem of Evil is solved in a final orgy of savagery and a win for the good team. Many fantasy movies and most interactive games go in for the BBGE, which partly explains the assumption about books. And it’s true that in fantasy, character is often less important than role (also true of Greek tragedy and much of Shakespeare, where role and character can be the same thing). Carelessly read, such stark stuff may appear to be morally simplistic, black-and-white. Carelessly written, that’s what it is. But careless reading of genuine fantasy will not only miss nuance, it will miss the whole nature and quality of the work. This is what’s happened over and over to The Lord of the Rings — even in the film version, where, though Tolkien’s plot is followed faithfully and the Ring is destroyed, the focus on violent action and the interminable battle scenes overshadow, and perhaps fatally reduce, the moral complexity and originality of the book, the mystery at its heart. As for my stuff, how anybody can call it a Battle Between Good and Evil is beyond me. I don’t write about battles or wars at all. It seems to me that what I write about — like most novelists — is people making mistakes and people — other people or the same people — trying to prevent or correct those mistakes, while inevitably making more mistakes.
The tale of Lyonesse is sometimes suggested to represent an extraordinary survival of folk memory of the flooding of the Isles of Scilly and Mount's Bay near Penzance[8] when the sea levels rose during the Bronze Age. For example, the Cornish name of St Michael's Mount is Karrek Loos y'n Koos – literally "the grey rock in the wood", suggesting that the bay was once a forest.
Ghost in the shell deluxe manga
A black tshirt with minecraft my little pony variants of the yogscast on it
Fave 9 ganes in no order: 1. Lies of P 2. Alien Isolation 3. Signalis 4. Citizen Sleeper 5. Labyrinth of the Demon King 6. Sifu 7. Hardcoded 8. Bloodborne 9. Dread Delusion
Wich Ward - a handmade solo ttrpg game, one of a kind. Adorned with watercolour paintings
A hardback copy of hard wired island; A cyberpunk ttrpg
Vermis 3 with two patches - Infestation, Bewitchment. Next to it is 'melodies of the unknown' the Vermis Cassette.
Art is afraid to serve a pornographic function; that is in the express aims of servicing a desire. (often framed, erroneously, as escapism) Genre fiction, such as romance, serve a desire be it for fantasy, or specificly fairies, or tech dystopias aping a 1980s aesthetics. Of course great works transcend this desire into emotional and resonant storytelling, with well executed and stylistic prose, but a restriction on what is possible to write - and what is taken seriously within writing - only limits those who would transcend these base desires. It is this, balancing fulfillment of desire (and for trained author writing should be an act of masturbation, personal desires fulfilled) while also applying thought and care into a wider context of the works one creates. That is to say a piece of writing does not need warrant to exist, but it does warrant care.
The Legend of King Arthur: Pilgramage, Place and the Pre-Raphelites, the book linked with the exhibit that i own a copy of
Brian Froud's book "Good Faeries" - unseen is the fact that on the reverse flipped is the book "Bad Faeries"
3 pull quotes: 'one of the master fabulists of our time' INDEPENDANT 'One of the major works of fantasy in this century' OBSERVER 'One of the greats' STEPHEN FRY
a pint of beer, 'penzance mild', next to a nonfiction book, 'the lost rainforests of britain' by 'Guy Shrubsole'
Cover image of Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sextions Castles book
The cover to "Faeries of the Faultlines, as observed and documented by Iris Compiet". The cover is of green leaves, and a green elfin face stares out almost one with the leaves.
Screenshot of the word Propserous
a drawing of an eylff in shock complete with drooping ears and horns, one of them broken. She is covered in druidic tattoos and jewellry. Her name is Marffen, an eylff raised in kin (human) druid society.
A copy of moby dick alongside a mostly drunk pint of a dark ale.
My top song from spotify wrapped ~ Gawain by The Trials of Cato
'The magic circle' by J.W. Waterhouse. An 1886 oil painting that depicts a witch or sorceress using a wand to draw a fiery magic circle on the Earth to create a ritual space for her ceremonial magic.
fanfic: And bob and Mary went to the kiffledunk inn, and merry was shouted at by a rude person for you know what. published ex-fanfic: This world is a dark world of dark things because people are mean because of the seventeen blood types and women are slaves in this world and there is a special school for individual born of vibrant blood types. Roberto and Merry went to the Mickleberry pub which is a special treat and was founded by the good witch who won it in the war, the magic wars which happened 6 years ago. Merry was shouted at by an angry man for she has ginger hair which is a metaphor for racism/queerphobia/ableism and ties somehow into blood.