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Hunter (Totally NOT a communist ☭)
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Oct 01, 2018 12:02PM

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It's hard to explain exactly but it's really useful to me but I haven't been able to find it at all and I don't know the meme's name or anything.






....BUT I FOUND A REALLY GOOD FANART OF CELESTIA I WANNA PUT IN HERE BUT IT'S SLIGHTLY SPOILER-Y

I told her I think it's several reasons. First of all, almost all fantasy takes place in a pseudo-medieval world, and bubonic plague was the disease that ravaged people back then. Cholera is very firmly a Victorian disease, but even then, it only was a public health issue for places like England for a few years, which is where a lot of Victorian fantasy novels take place in.
Secondly, bubonic plague seems like such a....fantasy disease, for lack of a better word. It seems really aesthetic with the plague doctors and the 'medicine' used to treat it. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I genuinely think a lot of people believe the idea of bubonic plague to be attractive because of the aesthetic image it provides. I mean, what is more romantic than doctors dressed in full-body leather bleeding you with leeches? Now compare that to the image of yourself in a bejeweled mask having a cork shoved up your anus to stop the flow of diarrhea. Not very romantic, huh?
Thirdly, I think it goes back to the whole 'cholera isn't as well-known' thing. Most people have heard of it, but shrug it off as something similar to typhoid or tuberculosis, which isn't good because saying things like 'cholera causes a fever' is misinformation.
It's actually a bit ironic people don't think cholera is romantic or aesthetic, as back in the day it was actually called 'the love disease'. Europeans considered death to be a beautiful thing until cholera arrived and swiftly proved them wrong. I think that alone could be a fascinating topic for a book, fantasy or not.
But I don't think it matters at the end of the day. Mom has challenged me to put a reference to cholera in every single one of my works, including my contemporary novels, and I am more than happy to do so. I even put cholera in some of my fanfics. The world deserves to know more about this disease; doctors are correct when they list it as a 'neglected tropical disease'

Why did they think of death as beautiful? Especially after the plague ravaged them centuries ago. Surely *that* made them think death could be terrifying?

I think it's that whole 'plague ravaged us centuries ago' The people in the Victorian Era hadn't experienced it and while I'm sure records of it existed, people likely romanticized it because they hadn't experienced it, if you get what I'm saying. They felt like it was something in their past and they romanticized a lot of stuff from that era anyway.
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Elizabeth ♛Smart Girls Love Trashy Books♛
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The picture is only really a spoiler if you know what/who you're looking at, but the description I gave it has a major spoiler in it so....yeah maybe don't read that lol["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>



A kuudere is basically 'cold on the outside, sweet on the inside' meaning most of the time they're really cold and unconcerned about things, but around people they're close to they become very warm and sweet. It's considered to be the opposite of a tsundere which is 'hot on the outside, sweet on the inside'

I would have thought the opposite of tsundere would be someone that acts nice to someone but on the inside hates them.

I don't make the rules. I think it's because one is cold on the outside like ice, and the other is heated on the outside like fire.

I remember in fifth grade and it was announced that would be our next unit in gym, and I could not believe my ears. It HAD to be a catch. But when I walked into the gym that morning, four huge DDR machines were set up in the room, two for my class and two for the other class. And it was like, the real DDR. And everyone on my team was convinced the second I stepped up to the mat, I would make us lose, but the instant my chance came, I blew literally everyone out of the water. I was actually upset when it was another one of my team members' turns because they ended up messing up the really huge combos I got and stuff.
My team won the DDR unit both years, all because of me. To this day I'm extremely proud of that achievement. I played it constantly back at home too because I had it on the Wii.

Also Me: "Have :) The :) Girl :) Pole-dance :) For :) Her :) Date :)"


You got: Kawaiiko
Aww. You look like a Kawaiiko. I guess that's not such a bad thing. Wait, you're not at an age where that's going to be weird are you? You really enjoy wearing frilly clothing, and acting as cute as you possibly can. Again, how old are you? Should I still be talking to you, or distancing myself from you at this point?
See the full list of personalities: http://imgur.com/gallery/yCJO1zx

Does it fit? I thought I would probably get himedere to be honest.

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Elizabeth ♛Smart Girls Love Trashy Books♛
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