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2. Brookstone Wired Purple Cat Ear Headphones with External Speakers
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External cat ear speakers for sharing musicInline volume control forward/back buttonsOver-the-ear cushioning for noise reductionUSB rechargeable for up to 5 hours of useIndependently controlled LED accent lights
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I would think the key to revitalizing high fantasy is to do what Tolkien did but with other cultures as the cornerstone: research heavily, reinterpret, hold to the virtues, present with style.
Tolkien just took the Old English and Norse origins and re-contextualized them to fit a fantasy world he created. Nothing was wrong with that inherently. A problem now is that too many simply base their works on his works or other authors they enjoyed, creating a thematic and mythological feedback loop of the same ideas over and over.
We as fantasy fans need to read more high fantasy that does what Tolkien did, that which draws from mainly a culture, and preferably one that does not inform our current society as much. African fantasy, East and South Asian fantasy, Amerindian fantasy, Mesoamerican fantasy and so on.
As writers though, there needs to be less portrayal and more criticism in fantasy. Portrayal only means how you present something, but many fantasy writers hide behind it. ("I'm not encouraging nationalism, I'm just portraying how it helped these people in this very specific circumstance!")
Though I think it is important to draw from central cultures and portray them effectively, it is also important to raise questions about those cultures and how they treat certain other groups of people. Simply hand-waving these unsavoury aspects of world-building make for a woefully under-explored setting.
EDIT: In case anyone is looking for such works, a few I know are Ehdrigohr, a Lakota-cultured high fantasy RPG; Artesia, a Greek-cultured high-fantasy comic series with a woman of colour protagonist, as well as it's own RPG ruleset and one novel in the universe starring her brother; and although it's tough to find African High-Fantasy, Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi is a great surrealist fantasy set in Nigeria.
It looks almost exactly like those cat ear headphones lots of trans women have.
Wait is this real? You think the liberals would do that? Just coopt imagery from the people's revolution for a quick buck?