I remember 90s fandom culture had a thing for gypsies. Both (romanticized versions of) real world Roma and fantastical...
talkinggorillabutler asked:
I remember 90s fandom culture had a thing for gypsies. Both (romanticized versions of) real world Roma and fantastical equivalents. They got name checked in World of Darkness splatbooks, a subsection in the "new age" section of the bookstore, I remember traveller analogues in several fantasy book series of the time. Any idea where this came? I know it ended up with romani community trying moves from US Civil Rights Movement playbook in Europe, including turning the g-word into a slur.
I like how on tumblr it’s like “oh, the Romani are so downtrodden” but in the 90s before the internet caught on there was the Budapest expats (that’s where Reason invented the blog from!) so we got sooooo many lessons to beware of the gypsies