Notices by Artemisia Vulgaris (commonmugwort@social.coop), page 2

@bookstodon Can anyone recommend an entry point to Wuxia for a middle-aged European steeped in Western Historical Fantasy - a great story, well-translated and easily available? No web-novels, please. Downloadable, text only, and the best translation you know.

#SilentSunday

There’s a post going round asking if your fantasy game farming is US-style or European, and not only does Central Europe not define what is European, but *there are other options, continents of them*, so if you’re building any kind of fantasy, please consider what affects land-use patterns in many different kinds of places.

I only know my part of the world well, but even there, the Germanic assertion that all the land in Europe has been long parcelled out and there is no wilderness is absurd. Mountain summer pastures on land too rocky to farm, too isolated in winter to live on full time, and too far from large villages to transport perishables from, eg, are common in the Balkans, and transhumant herders used them into this century.
Not every rural economy has wheat fields and cows.

Blackthorn blossom, white thorn leaves
(sloe and hawthorn)

@youronlyone Thank you for the reply. In principle, I agree.
In practice…
I rather suspect the reasons are funding reasons. It would be extremely difficult for a US production with no English in it to find the money. Yes, that culture should be changed - it is changing, and the Shogun show is part of that change.
It would also be hard to find the actors, and not just the Portuguese-speakers. I don’t think it’s accidental 3 (at least - the ones I recognise) of the Japanese actors have US

@youronlyone you mean they should be using Portuguese for Portuguese? I get where you’re coming from, but I can see an argument for saying an adaptation of a novel written in English in which the English protagonist understands Portuguese and is fluent in it to the point where the book’s narration language and dialogue are both written in English can have English dialogue.

Your occasional reminder that not everyone lives in the United States.

Began my day by making a donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians. There’s so little else I can do. If you can spare it, maybe you could too? #Gaza #Palestine https://www.map.org.uk/

I’ve been using metatext for iOS since I arrived on mastodon, pretty much, but it’s become unusable. Been unhappy with the available alternatives - too cluttered aesthetically- but I’m really liking the look and usefulness of mastoot so far.

I dunno folks maybe siloing everyone and everything into ever smaller and more antagonistic cultural groupings was a bad idea

@liztai Orthodox Christians have a tendency to conspiratorial thinking. Myself, I trust Kisin more than Putin, but I trust Putin about as much as I’m willing to put my hand in a viper’s nest.

@liztai I guessed that part 😁 Just making sure I knew who you were talking about

@liztai Kisin?

@liztai no, I take you at your word. I’m sure it is fascinating - for several reasons - but there’s no way I’ll watch it. I very rarely watch interviews, and never with people I find creepy.
I would be interested to to know what you gleaned from it, if that is something you want to do.

For all our sakes, please stop equating “junk food” - a set of products deliberately engineered to addict you to sugar and ruin your mood, your physical health, and your relationship to the ecosphere you are a part of for the benefit of capitalists - with pleasure? #food #ThatViralPost #DeliciousFood

Less than a month back on my intermittent muscle work and the low-key but regular practice might be doing something maybe?

There’s a pleasant ache in both latissimus dorsi anyway, which seems like good news for my swimming and kayaking plans.

I think I hike uphill faster too.

It’s always hard for me to keep the consistency going, so this public record is a way of encouraging myself

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The snoozer startled:
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The pavement dweller:
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