{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I remember 90s fandom culture had a thing for gypsies. Both (romanticized versions of) real world Roma and fantastical...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/623310157530742784/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>talkinggorillabutler</strong> asked: <p>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.</p></div>\n<p>I like how on tumblr it&rsquo;s like &ldquo;oh, the Romani are so downtrodden&rdquo; but in the 90s before the internet caught on there was the Budapest expats (that&rsquo;s where Reason invented the blog from!) so we got sooooo many lessons to beware of the gypsies</p>"}