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Musing about corvids and onions
Feb. 1st, 2024 02:54 pm I'm starting to consider purposely drawing Oboe and Ocarina as jackdaws, rather than crows. I still will refer them as crows in my writing. Or rather, I'm considering the Doyalist portions dance around the word, "black bird", "corvid", ect. while the Watsonist portions just upfront refers to them as crows.
TBH, I'm still very uncertain how I want to approach Taxonomy in my VoH fanfics and art. So much of the world building implies that it was meant be Medival Europe, but without any research into historical accuracy. Like a Disney movie.
But also, it's clearly a different reality. Almost like an isekai universe. In some ways, the world building would make more sense if it was one those medival fantasies that are actually post-apocalyptic. Because setting aside some of the sillier references to media, a lot of the world building is dependent on 20th century music and composers have existed in some form.
I take a lot of influence from historical fiction in my fanwork. So I feel inclined to reference things such as apples, onions, tulips, ect. as if I was writing historical fiction.
But I've been playing a phone game called AFK Arena. For being a game made to generate tons of money through "whaling" and will one day go offine and no longer be accessible, I really enjoy the amount of world building put into it. In particular the unique flora and fauna and how recipes are incorporated into the game. Such dishes resemble what we're familiar with but made with ingredients that are fantastical.
For a simple example, basic dairy products come from cowlpie (cow/kelpy) milk. So rather than imagining a world of cattle in grazing pastures, domesticated cattle would live more like marshland varients such as Camargue cattle.
Sometimes it makes sense to apply a heavier fantastical element to the fantasy realm of VoH, but I seem more inclined to lean in favor of realism.
TBH, I'm still very uncertain how I want to approach Taxonomy in my VoH fanfics and art. So much of the world building implies that it was meant be Medival Europe, but without any research into historical accuracy. Like a Disney movie.
But also, it's clearly a different reality. Almost like an isekai universe. In some ways, the world building would make more sense if it was one those medival fantasies that are actually post-apocalyptic. Because setting aside some of the sillier references to media, a lot of the world building is dependent on 20th century music and composers have existed in some form.
I take a lot of influence from historical fiction in my fanwork. So I feel inclined to reference things such as apples, onions, tulips, ect. as if I was writing historical fiction.
But I've been playing a phone game called AFK Arena. For being a game made to generate tons of money through "whaling" and will one day go offine and no longer be accessible, I really enjoy the amount of world building put into it. In particular the unique flora and fauna and how recipes are incorporated into the game. Such dishes resemble what we're familiar with but made with ingredients that are fantastical.
For a simple example, basic dairy products come from cowlpie (cow/kelpy) milk. So rather than imagining a world of cattle in grazing pastures, domesticated cattle would live more like marshland varients such as Camargue cattle.
Sometimes it makes sense to apply a heavier fantastical element to the fantasy realm of VoH, but I seem more inclined to lean in favor of realism.
