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Worldbuilding Idea #348 - Standards of Acceptance
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Realistically, any White American whose family was here before 1800 almost certainly had some slave ancestors. Thomas Jefferson's slave concubine, Sally Hemmings, was almost certainly the daughter or granddaughter of Jefferson's legal wife. It was a big scandal when one of Sally's descendants escaped and passed as White.
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>Thomas Jefferson's slave concubine, Sally Hemmings, was almost certainly the daughter or granddaughter of Jefferson's legal wife. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I suspect you mean the daughter or granddaughter of his father-in-law?
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Carrot Ironfoundersson is the best dwarf, species notwithstanding. Okay, second best dwarf. Cheery exists. ... Third best due to Cuddy (RIP). Okay, Discworld in general has the best dwarves.
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Discworld Dwarves are my platonic ideal for dwarves. And the exploration of gender? Fuckin killer! GNU Terry PratchettThe religious schism in The Fifth Elephant was amazing worldbuilding and made me love them even more.
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Carrot Ironfoundersson is the best dwarf, species notwithstanding. Okay, second best dwarf. Cheery exists. ... Third best due to Cuddy (RIP). Okay, Discworld in general has the best dwarves.
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Reaper Man is definitely in my top five Discworld novels, and only isn't first due to how amazing his other books are.
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Discworld Dwarves are my platonic ideal for dwarves. And the exploration of gender? Fuckin killer! GNU Terry Pratchett
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Reaper Man is definitely in my top five Discworld novels, and only isn't first due to how amazing his other books are.
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I don't have a list of favorite Discworld novels, that would be too long, I have a list of novels I skip on rereads. Completely unrelated question. Can a list with nothing in it still be considered a list?I'll admit I skip the first few books and start with Mort or Guards, Guards! during a reread depending on which subseries I'm craving. The early books aren't _bad_, but they definitely improved as he fleshed out the world more. The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic especially read more like Douglas Adams in style. _Later_ Douglas Adams, when his cynicism was at its peak and he made his characters miserable in response. The following books are much softer and more philosophical in tone. Death being straight up antagonistic in the first few books (even killing a random cat when angry IIRC) is the most bothersome part of the early stuff. He's my favorite character in all of fiction, so seeing him characterized like that doesn't feel great.
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A pureblood elf that looks like a human is raised by dwarves, learns to fight, befriends goblins, and gets super rich. -
I'll admit I skip the first few books and start with Mort or Guards, Guards! during a reread depending on which subseries I'm craving. The early books aren't _bad_, but they definitely improved as he fleshed out the world more. The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic especially read more like Douglas Adams in style. _Later_ Douglas Adams, when his cynicism was at its peak and he made his characters miserable in response. The following books are much softer and more philosophical in tone. Death being straight up antagonistic in the first few books (even killing a random cat when angry IIRC) is the most bothersome part of the early stuff. He's my favorite character in all of fiction, so seeing him characterized like that doesn't feel great.Yeah, funnily enough I felt Pratchett grew more and more frustrated with the world as time went on, just he found a more constructive way to depict it. Characters like Vimes, Moist, and Vetenari are deeply flawed humans who manage to nonetheless be the best they can and to aid the world as they are. Tiffany Aching is who he wants the world to have more of and meant to serve as a role model especially for his daughter, but for all young people, to encourage thinking and caring and to value the hard labor of taking care of those that other's don't.
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A pureblood elf that looks like a human is raised by dwarves, learns to fight, befriends goblins, and gets super rich.
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A pureblood elf that looks like a human is raised by dwarves, learns to fight, befriends goblins, and gets super rich.Greetings. I am Lávenæsh Twinkfist Heart3big, the unspeakable from the ironeater clan, but most people call me Larry
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"Blood always tells" - some racist jackass whose own family tree resembles a wreath, who probably suffers from a dozen hereditary afflictions themselves. But no, it's melanin that's the real measurement of superiority!
