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Just read a perfectly fine fanfiction that took place in Germany but something that stood out to me was a chapter where the characters walk across a field and is approached by the farmer yelling at them to get off his land.

I’ve come across this plot point a few times and I feel like it’s worth telling writers that most of Europe has some version of Right To Roam. The laws aren’t the same in every country but generally you’re allowed to walk and rest on private property like fields and forests so long as you don’t destroy anything or leave trash, but not gardens or fenced in areas. The owner of the land might put up a sign asking you to follow certain guidelines like no horses or keeping your dog on a leash but but there’s no real repercussions to not following the rules besides the owner eventually fencing the area off so people can’t enjoy it anymore.

I’ve personally walked around on a field while the farmer was harvesting potatoes with his big ass machine and collected the leftovers while my dog was trotting calmly besides me and he looked straight at me and didn’t care one bit because Denmark also has an old tradition of letting people collect what’s left as a form of charity (for my fellow Danes, that’s what “rev vi marken let, det er gammel ret, fuglen og den fattige skal også være mæt” means in the song Marken Er Mejet) This is just a tradition and not a law however so it depends on the farmer.

The very north of Europe like Norway and Sweden even give people the right to put up tents and camp on other people’s private land (except gardens and such). Again, the laws vary from country to country but as a rule of thumb you have more right to roam the further north you go and less the further south but if you want to write in a specific country look up the laws there.

Wow. Yall are really just allowed to exist in public huh?

Stop me if you've heard this before, but that fanfiction author is giving me the impression that they likely lived in North America instead of Europe (or just, never lived in Europe b4). I live in NA and I can tell you that the "get off my lawn" mentality very much strikes me as an Americanism.

I grew up thinking that private property is taken wayyy more seriously in places like the United States. People can get real stingy about it! I recall a story that my grandma told me about a relative who dealt with a "get off my lawn" type of asshole because that relative was simply walking their dog in a field.

There was also another time where there were some workers cutting branches off of the tree at the house I live in, and a guy across the alleyway was getting butthurt about the workers leaving their tools on his driveway. Like, get over it dude! Those workers won't be there forever.

Part of it comes from America's deep-seated culture, and another part of it is the ugly suburban infrastructure keeping everyone in isolation from each other. I can go on & on, but you get the idea.

MY PATREON CAMPAIGN IS BACK!! 🎉🥳

This time, it's wayyyy simpler and will focus on making comics! Visit my Patreon here: patreon.com/captdedeyes

NOTICE: My Patreon is now 18+ only since it'll have mature content from my upcoming comic project, Heart of Ivy. Later this year, I will open my Ko-fi up for memberships when I start working on a different comic project for general audiences.

Visit my Ko-fi if you wanna support me there instead!

More details to come, cuz rn I'm hacking away on that new comic! I'm planning on sharing WIP pages on Patreon

Oh no...I just realized that on my blog I turned off DMs to everyone despite my commission chart saying that people can DM me if they want :(

I think I disabled that DM option because I kept getting messages from bots (which is STILL a goddamn problem on here btw)

Here's something I've wanted to do for a while now:

And I also have a digital zine up for purchase on Ko-fi and itch.io! ☕

I thought I'd set this up before I start work on my next big webcomic project. So for practice, I built up a standalone website (with Rarebit) for the first comic I posted on WebToon! Each chapter will be posted every day this week until it's complete.

WHOOPEEE it's Webcomic Day!! 🎉

Go read my webcomic if you haven't yet