dandelionofthanatos:

The words “fun fact” should never go near the phrase “researching the Nürnberg Trials” except in cases like

“FUN FACT I WAS DOING RESEARCH ON NÜRNBERG AND DURING THESE SCHOLASTIC ENDEAVOURS I DISCOVERED NEW AND EXCITING WAYS FOR MY EYES TO GO TO HELL!”

Or maybe

“FUN FACT my liver has just threatened to hire a hit man on my happy little ass if I ever ‘cope’ with Nürnberg-related soul-deep existential despair via Consume All The Scotch again.”

Like—straight-up copypasting IRL atrocity into a mediocre book about dragons and orcs is fucking ignorant and classless on a cosmic level. Especially when your writing otherwise just parrots and perpetuates gross stereotypes.

Also it’s awfully disgusting to tack the crimes of IRL white assholes onto the heads of coded-as-not-white-at-all antagonists.

Also also much of the ~south American dictatorship~ stuff Golden appropriated was perpetrated by individuals banked by the CIA or some shit. SO!!!!11!1!!!1!!