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It's so hard to pick a favorite! In terms of fictional settings, I'm interested in almost any time period that's written really evocatively, with a good eye for interesting historical detail. I'm not a stickler for everything being 100% accurate, but I don't want clumsy research or too much fudging of the details that ruins the historical atmosphere.

Ancient Egypt (any dynasty)
medieval English/French
Regency
post WWII gothic setting

Forty years from now when we hopefully have sorted climate change out, got the plastic situation under control, civil rights have increased, democracy in the West has righted itself and freed itself from influences from Russia and China, and modern medicine has made even further advances.

Honestly, I find a lot of historical time periods interesting, but I think we can rose tint them quite a bit.

Sengoku era Japan because holy shit all the warlords were secretly bugnuts, really good at writing scathingly sarcastic letters to each other, and a literal sandal-carrier rose to become the first great unifier of Japan (Oda doesn't count he died before he could do anything with it). And also everyone was actually gay for each other that's not just a fun reinterpretation of how their relationships and letters rolled out.

The multitude of anime, manga, and game properties that milk Sengoku era for fiction are actually not that far off from reality. Date Masamune has a particularly epic level of "excuse me what the fuck?" surrounding a lot of his actions, letters, and later writings about what went on in his court, but Oda, Toyotomi, Tokugawa, and Uesugi were also varying levels of outrageous and the best part is, most of the information about them survives to this day intact because of the Tokugawa-era lockdown of Japan and the overall interest in preserving history. It's only been just under 500 years but their historical artifacts and writings are more intact than half of what was going on in Europe. We know things, and those things are ridiculous.

I am enthralled with everything you've said here. Are there any good books on this era that capture the amazingness of it?

I'm still searching for some myself, so alas no recs. I've been mostly bingeing on historian blogs translating various letters, right now I'm knee-deep in a Date blog that I...have apparently closed the link to, shit. I know it was on tumblr so a search is probably easier than not.

There's a reason Sendai is still in love with its founding father, Date Masamune was a bit wild but looked out for his people. My favorite tale so far is still how he had to give his army a list of rules to follow on their march back from Kyoto, which included respecting every town and every person they passed, but rule 5 was basically "don't set the camp on fire again." Yes, again.

Thank you for replying! Man this whole era sounds wild. Off to look for some blogs!

Ancient Rome. I feel like it perfectly encapsulates the turning point between the ancient world and the foundation of the world we recognise now.

The Victorian/Edwardian Era.

No matter how hard I try, I always come back to it for one reason or another. I have given up at this point.

Ancient Egypt and the Victorian Era. I'm just fascinated by those time periods.

Probably the 1990s. Yes, there was a lot of crap going on, but perhaps it was less crappy than usual. Decent medical care and contraception were available.

Ancient Greece/Egypt/Rome/Celtic cultures/Viking era
Period of the Russian Czars
Medieval Europe
Mayan, Aztec, and Olmec cultures, generally the historical indigenous history of Guatemala especially and also Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras
The early fight for equal rights (gender, race, sexuality, class)- I just get inspired by reading about all the amazing people doing amazing things

80's, if only for the design and aesthetic of media and advertisement.

Mostly the Vietnam War era, about 1955-1975. I find everything surround that war fascinating, including the political climate, how society was changing, how people's views were changing. All the technological advances, the space race....

Just so cool, and amazing, and sad, and interesting.

The seventeenth century

Just such a massive turning point and so much weird chaotic shit going on everywhere and at this really interesting junction between modern and premodern and chaotic and earthy

Late Roman Republic, because everybody was off the shits

Italian Resonance is what I want to say because I adore the art and near everything about the society, but I'll wager on 3000 years ago in ancient Egypt. (but maybe a century or two before Atem became Pharaoh cause that shit is whack!)

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