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I was just re-reading Kushiel's Dart, and it was really good, and it just kind of happened. I really apologize to anyone who was looking forward to campaign season. I hope her platform's not all weird or anything.
I don't know why it took like five years for this to occur to me, but: the Kushiel series, which is largely set in France-equivalent country Terre d'Ange, has no Germany-equivalent country. Now that I have noticed it, I am weirded out.
I mean, England and Scotland are also missing, and it's impossible to imagine French history without them, either, but Germany's non-existence seems even stranger to me. Probably this is because my grim hobby of Medieval Anti-Semitism Studies tends to land me in France and Germany more than in other places. I'm accustomed to being able to assume that if there's a France doing something insane on the left, there's got to be a Germany trying to one-up it on the right. It feels unbalanced that this competition is not taking place.
I don't know why it took like five years for this to occur to me, but: the Kushiel series, which is largely set in France-equivalent country Terre d'Ange, has no Germany-equivalent country. Now that I have noticed it, I am weirded out.
I mean, England and Scotland are also missing, and it's impossible to imagine French history without them, either, but Germany's non-existence seems even stranger to me. Probably this is because my grim hobby of Medieval Anti-Semitism Studies tends to land me in France and Germany more than in other places. I'm accustomed to being able to assume that if there's a France doing something insane on the left, there's got to be a Germany trying to one-up it on the right. It feels unbalanced that this competition is not taking place.
