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10:02 pm: Holidays and festivals rant
Blame tsuki_no_bara for this one, if you like. She asked specifically for holidays in the last rant. (Well, and so did other people).

( Why you don’t have to just copy the Wiccan calendar. Or the Christian one. )

And next, quiet moments!

Tags: fantasy rants winter 2005, worldbuilding: culture, worldbuilding: religion

03:48 pm: Difference rant part two
The second part of the difference rant, addressing those things I didn’t get to last time.

( The difference between characters and poster children… )

Probably a rant on incorporating daily life into fantasy is next.

Tags: fantasy rants autumn 2004, idea rants, rants on gender, rants on nonhumans, worldbuilding: religion

02:12 pm: Religious questionnaire, part two
( What the subject line says )

Tags: fantasy rants summer 2004, worldbuilding: religion

04:25 pm: Religion questionnaire
And back to the questionnaire format again. This time, some things that I tend to consider when setting up a religion.

( Noisy gods and quiet saints )

Religion is a big conflict-provider in fantasy, handled right. The problem is that fantasy authors present whitewashed versions of it (just as they tend to do with battles of the sexes, romances, the conflict between good and evil, and everything else).

Tags: fantasy rants summer 2004, worldbuilding: religion

10:34 am: Rant on gods.
Or religion, part two, I suppose, though this rant was more on religion itself.

( The gods of fantasy )

I don't think fantasy worlds necessarily have to have gods, but it's irritating not to see more done with them.

Tags: fantasy rants winter 2004, worldbuilding: religion