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I'm interested in starting a pleasure project: a fantasy story, along the lines of a witch delivering a prophecy to a king about a dangerous and deceitful foe who will overthrow him, and the king e...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T12:45:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/47445 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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weakdna says reinstate monica
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2019-12-08T12:45:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
I'm interested in starting a pleasure project: a fantasy story, along the lines of a witch delivering a prophecy to a king about a dangerous and deceitful foe who will overthrow him, and the king enlists three other witches to seek out and destroy this foe. I want to draw on traditional, arguably "cliché" (?) fantasy species, like elves, orcs, goblins, dwarves, faeries, etc. However, I realize that many aspects of these races contain hidden racism--blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white elves that are completely superior, barbaric orcs with dark skin who just happen to be the only race that wears dreads/braids, banking goblins with hooked noses that _totally_ aren't Jews. How can I involve some of these older elements, _while leaving behind the racist subtext some of them carry?_
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-08-20T22:34:50Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 63