[ SECRET POST #2743 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2743 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

14. http://i59.tinypic.com/6pp4et.png

[(Anonymous)]

What about modern hairstyles and language? And things like the women are usually wearing makeup and are shaven? Etc, etc.

[iceyred]

Not the OP, but it always throws me out of a story when I see women in primitive societies with smooth, hairless legs. Are they tweezing? Was Nair a thing in medieval times? What sorcery is this and how can I learn it?

[(Anonymous)]

http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/beauty/hair-removal/5-hair-removal-methods.htm

[iceyred]

That was really interesting. Thank you. :)

[(Anonymous)]

The shaven women! And hygiene, and the fact no one mentions how awful their breath is!

Also, I'm always disappointed that things like elimination, body odor, defecation, menstruation and other bodily functions are never dealt with. I know they may be extraneous to the plot, but let me know your characters need to pee every now and then!

[inkdust]

That's funny, I never have any interest in seeing the pee need, etc, addressed. If the characters don't seem to eat for three days, that's a different story.

[alexi_lupin]

If everyone didn't wash or brush their teeth though wouldn't you be used to it if that was just how you lived?

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't worry about hairless women - there's a special type of stone that you can get that removes hair through friction. Ancient peoples probably used that.

[(Anonymous)]

Game of Thrones -------------------------> that way

[(Anonymous)]

sa - sorry misfire

[philstar22]

Why would you assume that modern beauty standards were a thing in all societies, though? Just because women could shave doesn't mean that they would in every society in history. There are some settings where it really isn't realistic.

[ketita]

I vote for a return of the monobrow!

[annethecatdetective]

Right. Like, if it's ancient Egypt, then yes, shaved all over. But if it's like a 'ye olde' European-based society, I don't know... I'd just like at least some unruly eyebrows on a 'beautiful' woman or something. SOMETHING.

(but inversely I once yelled at the television because someone said something about body hair in ancient Egypt, where they did remove it all)

Well, it is a different planet, in a different galaxy.

[(Anonymous)]

Mayhap they have different dyeing techniques. And different dyes and fibers due to different plants existing there could mimic our modern fabrics.

Re: Well, it is a different planet, in a different galaxy.

[(Anonymous)]

Potentially.

The uniformity of color in their clothing is not consistent with hand dyeing in any galaxy though.

Re: Well, it is a different planet, in a different galaxy.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Well, I don't know that that is necessarily so, but there is also the possibility of trade or, hell, an Ancient might have lived there once upon a time and built a machine or something. Maybe they had refugees from another, more industrialized society at some point that happened to be people who worked with fabrics. The point is, I'm don't think that assumptions you might make about technologically undeveloped societies on Earth would necessarily hold true on another planet, in another galaxy, in the Stargate universe.

[(Anonymous)]

Yay for a Stargate (kind of) secret 2 days in a row.

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering what this was from! (Thought it kind of looked like TNG, but I couldn't think of an episode where this might have happened, except for the one where Q makes them act out Robin Hood and that wasn't a real place where fiber technology would be an issue).

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's from that (really horrible) episode Irresistible. Sheppard was hot in it though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! These make me so happy (even if it is critiquing the show).

[caecilia]

omfg I don't even notice that but what bothers me is THE HAIR

LIKE YEAH I REALY BELIEVE THAT YOU, LOWER-MIDDLE CLASS GIRL WHO IS CONSTANTLY TALKING ABOUT MONEY PROBLEMS, ARE ABLE TO TO GET YOUR HAIR STYLED EVERY WEEK

AND YOU, MEDIEVAL PRINCESS, THOSE HIGHLIGHTS ARE NATURAL? OR A GIFT FROM GOD? idk?

i get you is what i'm saying

but i mean, that's tv for you

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly hate it when in a historical setting, the men always look incredibly scruffy, unkempt and dirty but the ladies always look like they fell directly off a Vogue cover, all perfect locks and flawless, hairless skin with only the tiniest smudge of dirt on their dainty cheeks to signal "Oh yes, look, she's totally just as dirty, the poor creature!".

[caecilia]

oh lol yeah, that too! Or when they're all dirty but not TOO dirty, they still have toothpaste commercial teeth

[(Anonymous)]

If it's a pseudo-medieval planet in a Sci-Fi series, I can deal with strange, synthetic looking colours and materials because hey, different planet, different plants and critters to turn into fabric and dyes.

But if it's a (pseudo)historical setting? Please no. Best example is still Merlin, with Morgana who looked like she got all her clothing at a mix of cheap goth store and Hot Topic and Gwen and other court ladies whose dresses looked like they were actually made out of panne velvet - both of those, the goth get-up and the panne velvet, are just about the biggest "DON'T DO THIS EVER" when it comes to costumes for any medieval market/Rennaisance Fair, why would you use that stuff in a (pseudo)historical show?