Very correct!
To add to this, bandits could also be:
- desperate farmers during a bad harvest
- rebels funding their cause
- mercenaries between contracts
- soldiers on campaign, both ally and enemy
- noblemen’s thugs sending a message
- refugees who are completely out of options
Banditry in fantasy and fiction has unfortunately become a sort of shorthand for “low level humanoid enemies you don’t have to feel bad for killing” but it heartens me to see people investing creatively in their settings “bad guys” backstories.
An example of how bandits in fantasy are disconnected from the way real bandits worked is Marion du Faouët, a woman bandit from Brittany in the 18th century.
Bandits in a lot of fantasy are full time bandits. They have no other job, and usually live away from the rest of society.
Marion du Faouët, aside from being a highwaywoman, was a mercer, selling, selling fabrics & cloth.
Because yeah, turn out that there isn't a special group of people called criminals... there is no "criminal society VS honest society", the two are part of a whole.
And fantasy stories should work more on that : seasonal bandits that do crime when they can't do their job. Fishers who do some pirate stuff on the side. Thief guild member that have legitimate job on the side, not just cover.
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I’m about a year or so late on this meme, but I thought it was fun to make a little animation of everyone’s favourite snake obsessed vampire exterminator.
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Waaaaay back in the Horse Days I made a series of MLP themed posters where the main idea was to not actually show the horses at all -try to keep it a little vague, but still use all their colours and symbols.
I think it came from the idea that some people would like to show their fandom of MLP without the obvious and implicit ponys in it for one reason or another, ergo the posters.
This one is Rarity; who is simply fabulous *darling*
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Food is caloric input that goes in my tummy.
Vidja Gaem is visual stimulus that tickles the eyesballs.
I used to want to be a police officer once, but now I know better. Institutional violence is nothing to aspire to.
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Waaaaay back in the Horse Days I made a series of MLP themed posters where the main idea was to not actually show the horses at all -try to keep it a little vague, but still use all their colours and symbols.
I think it came from the idea that some people would like to show their fandom of MLP without the obvious and implicit ponys in it for one reason or another, ergo the posters.
This one is Rainbow Dash; everyones favourite pride flag coloured sports-lesbian.
emotional state/Live Octoling Reaction™️ when it’s 2am I lose near every splatfest battle i got in, getting in 2 x10 battles in a row, losing both , saying “look I’ll do one more match but it’s getting depressing” then somehow with 0 festival shells WINNING A 100x by 1%
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My favourite thing about living on shitty Terf Island (tm) is all the shitty old men who look like boiled thumbs and throw their shitty beer cans everywhere every match day.
Agaisnt the storm is a very fun city builder with some really cool lore, one bit of which is the mysterious queen who we never really see- aside from her mask of course.
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