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I believe that it's Arya Stark who dislikes needlework, not Sansa. Of course this is a desperately important point to have noted in your excellent essay.

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hahahaha outed for not having read game of thrones

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Couldn’t get passed the affectation of not using capital letters.

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This quality of "great old works feeling weirdly modern" is something I've been encountering more and more, starting to think that the concept of "modernity" is fake.

"[...]and that the fashion in self-consciously self-serious literature rn (for various structural reasons, which i would like to write about, and which i am trying unsuccessfully to write about) is specifically to make things that people kind of dont naturally like…….on which…..more later….hopefully……"

i need to see this fleshed out please and thank you :)

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Renaissance poetry is underrated as a source of RPG / video game content.

Patrick Stuart's deep dive into The Faerie Queen is pretty good if you want somebody to read along with. He just did the whole thing canto by canto I think?

falsemachine.blogspot.com/search/label/Faerie%20Queen

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"also an image of britomart as a young girl hating needlework, like sansa stark"

Arya, not Sansa.

EDIT: I see someone else pointed it out.

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symp, you can watch me play dragon's dogma 2 when it comes out soon, if you'd like 👉👈

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