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“The ballad’s enduring appeal (and Romantasy’s, too) is that it flips the traditional narrative of heroism on its head”
In the early Scottish ballad “Tam Lin”, the titular man is rescued from the fairies by the bravery of Janet, the heroine
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/romantasy-history-acotar-celtic-folklore
#Scottish #literature #folklore #ballad #romantasy #TamLin #16thcentury
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#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:
What genre is your WIP?
Tam Lin is Scottish folk ballad where our heroine saves our hero from the Queen of the fairies. It's a #Fantasy but there elements of the mythical, Scottish Folk, naturalist spirit and oral balladry
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#PlotTober 8th October
Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing Tam Lin -
#QueerPrompts 8th October:
International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of a favorite lesbian character
Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay & this...
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Tam Lin really is a - and I can think of no other way to put this - completely f———ed up ballad if you stop and actually listen to the story, isn’t it? Seriously, check it out if you’re unfamiliar https://youtu.be/WhZSkbuGc1k
#TamLin #Ballad #BroadsideBallad #FolkSong #Folk #Roud35 #Child39
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@GaymerGeek I love the song in Anais Mitchell’s album #ChildBallads with Jefferson Hamer. “ What makes you pull the rose, the rose? What makes you break the tree? What makes you come to Carterhaugh Without the leave of me?” #TamLin #AnaisMitchell