Thread by @SecretGamerGrrl

That thread goes on to say "granted these stereotypes about goblins all predate her writing" but... they really don't. As someone pretty well pickled in fantasy juice over my life, goblins are always either tiny green guys with big ears who stab you, or Brian Froud muppets.

And like, visuals can vary a little if we're digging up ancient mythological sources, and you MIGHT see some concept of "greedy" or something in the sense of like, oh this horrible little thing sneaking around stabbing me also just grabbed every shiny thing it saw on the way,"

they're not at all the sort of creature one imagines managing a stock portfolio. They're the sort of creature one might imagine managing a burlap sack full of bugs, poorly, they keep falling out holes in the sides or being eaten.

If you want some sort of fantasy banker, the most

obvious thing that comes to my mind is to have a bank run by some laid back dragon. You get to have a little scene where the protagonist is taken aback by a dragon both being real and not out terrorizing people, then you give the dragon a nice little smug speech about people just

voluntarily walking in and adding more gold to his treasure hoard. This writes itself.

Want to keep it humanoid? Keep dragons in the back pocket to play straight as scary monsters, or you're looking ahead to movie adaptations on tighter budgets? Leprechauns. Everyone understands

that leprechauns have pots of gold, and closely guard them, make deals with legalistic language needed. You'd maybe run a risk of unflattering Irish stereotypes if you're some kind of hack, but that clearly wasn't a concern when you're introducing the Weasleys in the next scene.

Yeah, this is the other thing!

https://twitter.com/mumbly_joe/status/1478082312977977348

She had no problem just making up her own weird whimsical things for a bunch of stuff where there was an obvious choice to pull from the monster manual, and then takes more commonly understood names and concepts, mashes them

together, and then makes it super racist. Elves, as understood by... literally everyone in the world, except whoever came up with Santa's workshop:
You've got tall mystical wise but haughty immortals.
You've got forest archers.
Either way, they're all always hot and high-femme.

Then this bigoted hack comes along all, "hey, those things that like fix your shoes in the night, those are elves, right? Gonna have all the rich families have a bunch as personal slaves. But they're cool with it, and I'll throw in how idea of freeing them is a complete joke."

Hindsight is 20/20 and all but wow we really did let some some monstrously cruel bigot who doesn't even have a child's understanding of mythology and fantasy slap a bunch of words pulled at random from a D&D book onto grotesque racist crap and made her a billionaire didn't we.

AND then we let her just blatantly steal the name of the main character/series from a legitimately underrated 80s fantasy movie.