My name is Wesley (He/Him). I'm 25, decidedly male, and I have a Kevin Bacon number of 4. I'm currently in a wonderful relationship with @thegirlinroom201. My old URL was 11-is-just-as-good-as-10. My birthday is July 3rd. I'm an ISTJ personality type. I support human rights. I'm working as a PHP web developer. This blog isn't anything in particular. It's a grab bag, really. If I happen to say or write something offensive, please call me out so I can correct it. Thanks! Ask me how Luke Bryan personally inconvenienced me.
She’s actually “correct” in a nefarious way by asking you to Google it yourself because, yeah, OP is wrong. He doesn’t use child slavery to source lithium…
He uses child slavery to source cobalt to make lithium batteries
So by asking you to do your own research on the lithium sources, she’s derailing in his favor.
The worst part about writing fantasy is being keenly aware that you’re writing fantasy, which means that you always have to straddle a thin three-way line between anachronism, cliche, and clunk.
Take money, for example. You can’t just have people in a fictional fantasy world walk around using Euros. You consider something generic, like ‘silver coins,’ but before you know it your world starts sounding like a shitty ren faire.
So you think about the world you’ve built and its needs and its history to come up with some unique and relevant terms. But if your terms are too unique and relevant you wind up writing “yarr, you’ll be ransomed for a hundred Trade League Silver Gyrblonks” and realize your worldbuilding is now getting in the way of basic readability.
The Lesson Of The Day is that all the names are already claimed by IRL, and all the almost-good-names that you could invent to get around that were used by some SFF author in the seventies e.g. I bet you can’t do Suns and Moons for your gold/silver coins, I bet some author did that already.
My fantasy nation uses solid gold coins marked by the dental impressions of the reigning king, as a sign of their purity and authenticity.
They’re called Bitcoins.
oh you can go the fuck to jail that’s what you can do, where you’ll be shackled to a chain gang hitting the blockchain with a pickaxe
I’m so scared of 2020, something seems to frightening about this year. It’s gonna be Y2K all over again. The Black Plague is going to come back. I swear. I fuckin swear.