>>6348214>>6341052>>6341392>ALL FANTASY / creative imagination is blatant stealing>Laputa??well the flying island / castle idea and name Laputa is obviously stolen from Jonathan Swift and Gulliver's Travels (1726), however I did not know that Miyazaki was inspired by a visit he made in 1985-86 to Wales as well as the Welsh miner's strike lol, that is interesting and explains a lot
https://lithub.com/the-outsize-influence-of-wales-on-fantasy-music-and-movies/https://www.wales.com/culture-and-sport/welsh-inspirations-behind-studio-ghiblis-most-beloved-work>During his time in the South Wales valleys, Miyazaki witnessed the aftermath of the 1984–1985 coal miners' strike and was moved by the struggles of the Welsh miners who fought so desperately to protect their livelihoods. Their experiences mirrored the plight of Japanese coal miners in his home country and Miyazaki sought to capture their resilience in Laputa, honoring the tightly knit mining communities that were rapidly fading away on both sides of the world.>Miners emerge as heroes in the film as they help the two main characters to escape from the villains. Miyazaki’s depiction of their village, made up of rows of little houses hugging the hillsides, was based on the ones he saw in the mining valleys of South Wales. (...)All fantasy, Tolkien Mabinogion etc is about Wales (see medieval welsh lyrics here
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I even did it in my setting Song Of The Oath And Wild (the lyrical opening intro is heavily and recognisably adapted from Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
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Perhaps fantasy inspiration escapism (nostalgia for the quaint mythological past?) surges whenever there is some techno-disruption production regime shift, whether it is 1848 European artisanal domestic fabrication to factory, a 1984-85 Welsh miner's strike, or AI LLM automated art?
