Concepts With Names On

[gothwalk]

I am looking for a few terms to go in the Interests section of the DW profile, and I don't know what words to use.

First up, fantasy economics. I find the idea that you can have a fantasy world that is "just like medieval Europe, only with magic" to be nonsense. You can just about have one where the magic is hidden, but if it's overt, then it's going to make differences in the way society and economics work. There are writers who have done glorious things with this; Max Gladstone foremost among them. I feel like there should be a single word for this, or at least a catchier term, but it's escaping me.

Next up, something like goblincore or witch aesthetic, but to describe my own personal aesthetic. 'Scholarpunk' is the closest I've come so far, but it doesn't get the cabin-y rock-and-nature aspect.

And then, something to describe the form of small-scale online social interaction that many people are experiencing in the slow retreat from Facebook. I have the concept of 'dark forest glades', but that's three words, and kind of requires already knowing what the term means before you can get the impression I want from it, rather than the literal meaning of open spaces in dense woodland.

Ideas?

Comments

[korpikuusi]

You don't want dark forest glades anyway because of the space monster aspect.

I pointed out IRL that you get to define any aesthetic that you coin, but you didn't like it, and asked me to post it here so you get to explain it.

[korpikuusi]

I think something to do with "villages" for the retreat from universal platforms, especially in the sense that someone said on Sunday in relation to people finding their own communities on particular platforms, rather than all trying the one-size-fits-none thing.

[gothwalk]

Yeah. Basically, these neologisms work well at one of two extremes. Either they communicate exactly what you mean first time, or you know you have to go look them up. Some can do both for different people, like "witch aesthetic", but I reckon most people need to go look up "goblincore". I feel like "scholarpunk" falls into the awkward space between, where someone might think they know what it means, and not arrive at the same usage I have. "Scholarbilly" comes close to doing the trick, but sounds dafter than I want.