thebitterguy

I was wandering through

ghostwes backlog when I stumbled on this pair of blog postings about the aesthetics of fantasy.

My personal failings prevent me from enjoying it as much as I should (the failings being dat I is dum), but it's neat to read an article about fantasy done by a guy who really doesn't like the genre. The real point being this quote from a comment that Wes pointed out that I also enjoyed:

An interesting tangent to the idea of fantasy being about bling is the fantasy RPG which most definitely IS a crypto-Objectivist bare-knuckle capitalist fantasy in which the peasants spend their lives with their feet in shit while the "elite" go around collecting huge mountains of gold, killing anyone that stands in their way and covering themselves in magical bling.

Hee. I am inspired for my next D&D character. He will be an elf gangsta. What kind of ethnic slur can he be reclaiming? I suggest "woody". Or possibly pointy.