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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8349359" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Yep. Absolutely.This. I delight just as much as most folks in a novel song or story or whatever. I love seeing a new artistic movement emerge. But I also enjoy it when someone does really good acoustic folk ballads, or a really kickass rock song, or makes new music that resembles and speaks to the soul of old jazz classics. Neither is better than the other.That is kindof how the gods work in my Islands World setting. Like, the gods are real, and have both material and immaterial existence, can be in many places at once without any loss of focus or presence in a given place, and they're part of the things they represent at a fundemental level*, but they are also the stories told about them, and they manifest in those who emulate those tales or who write new tales with their deeds that speak to the nature of the gods. When you move truly soundlessly through the forest at night to get the perfect moonlit shot at your prey, and execute the shot perfectly, Artemis is literally with you and also...sortof is you.*Sehanine is the Lover's Moon, but also the moons are all literal physical objects in the space outside the atmosphere of the planet, and she is also the moonlight, and also she is the moment when moonlight illuminates a hidden danger or allows a lover to see their beloved's face in the darkness during a hidden tryst, while Artemis is the Hunter's Moon, and the moment when prey appears poised in the soft blue light of her moon, and also the thumping hearts-joy of chasing prey and of competing in a footrace and of lunging for the throat of an abuser or oppressor</blockquote>

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