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Episode 4: Civilization and You! (with guest star Fonda Lee!)

Worldbuilding for Masochists

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The Authenticity Fallacy in Fantasy

I actually call that the authenticity fallacy sometimes that readers have like an understanding of what they think is historical. And often it's either it's not accurate for your world because it's fantasy and it's made up so you can do whatever you really want to. Or it's not even actually historical. If it's truly throwing a reader so much that, you know, they're getting knocked out of the story, even though it's historically accurate, but I can let it go mostly. It's somewhat ironic and funny to me because when you read an epic fantasy novel that's set in the medieval era, most people are not like, well, was there generally like, was this like 13

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