Representation Is Not a Substitute for Worldbuilding
RAERAE RANTS · CASTING · WORLDBUILDING HAS LEFT THE CHAT Representation Is Not a Substitute for Worldbuilding If you want a modern multicultural kingdom, build one. I am listening. Give me the migrations, marriages, trade routes, neighborhoods, prejudices, alliances, languages, and history that created it. What I am tired of is a remake borrowing the […]
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Representation Is Not a Substitute for Worldbuilding
If a remake wants a modern multicultural kingdom, build the migrations, marriages, politics, and history that created it. Casting is not worldbuilding.
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