[ SECRET POST #5759 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5759 ⌋

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[Etrian Odyssey]


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[She-Hulk]


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[Dark Shadows]


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[Metropolis]


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[Warehouse 13]


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Comments

[fscom]

09. https://i.imgur.com/LzH27fL.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I agree - I like the period-typical conflicts, and the delicate balance between the romance and the calculation behind the eventual marriage. It's not just "I love you!! <3", it's "I think I can make this commitment and not regret my choice", and it's something you don't get in modern romance as much because women can walk away from a failed relationship without being "ruined". The limitations on their lives and how they have to work within them to be successful and survive is important to the setting, but it's often one if the first things to be given the boot.

You also get some great relationships between women, whether it's familial or friendships, and I enjoy the dynamics.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't suppose you've got any recs for books with period-typical conflicts?

[(Anonymous)]

It's better all around not to brag about how much research you did and how "accurate" the story is to begin with. Because you will get something wrong anyway.

This is why I never use the Historical Accuracy or Historical Inaccuracy tags on A03. Like, readers should just assume, on the basis of it being fanfic in the first place (often fanfic of someone else's professional historical fiction), that it won't be totally accurate.

[(Anonymous)]

And this goes double if you're a pro author. Because that gets embarrassing real fast.

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly don't mind if it's historically inaccurate as long as the author knows it and is clear about what "rules" their society has. I've seen some really good history-inspired but not historically-accurate worldbuilding that way.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a complicated one for me, because there are times when I very much like ahistorical modern stories in period dress, and there are times when I absolutely hate it.

My solution to this problem is simple: if you want to write an ahistorical period story with modern attitudes but fancy clothes, simply set it in an undefined futuristic science fiction society that happens to have patterned itself after an era of earth history. If you're actually writing a historical story, then set it in history..

[(Anonymous)]

I like Regency slash and I kinda prefer period accuracy (this relationship is sekrit!) but I’m okay with anachronistic social acceptance as long as they’re not using modern language. Just write a “two guys who work at a stately hall doing history cosplay” if you want them to say Dude.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading a lot of Stranger Things fic recently & I'm keeping a running list of all of the blatantly anachronistic stuff people have characters say

No one in 1986 knew what a fuckboy was

[(Anonymous)]

RIGHT?

Like, at least with regency stuff, no one in the fandom was alive during the period, but there are people in the ST fandom who were alive in the 80s! And if you don't want to ask an icky old to beta your story, you can watch a couple John Hughes movies (if you're writing the older teen/young adult group) or like... the Goonies and The Wizard if you're writing kid/young teens, you can literally listen to dialogue written in the 80s! It is NOT hard??

[(Anonymous)]

Regency romance authors are particularly bad about this, IMO. I get really annoyed when a novel gets compared to Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer and... ha, as if. This is also petty of me, but I dislike it when authors can't/won't even stick to basic rules of etiquette. Unmarried young ladies do not make morning calls upon single men. Your heroine of good family and reputation would lose that good reputation if she showed up at the hero's magnificent country estate by herself to see him.

FFS, people... the limitations on social interaction are what make the romance more interesting and challenging. If you want to write a modern romance, just write a modern romance.

[tabaqui]

I love a well-researched period novel, movie, or fan-fic, myself, OP! When someone is writing in Ye Olden Tymes and basically just shoves everybody into tall boots and corsets, it's so irritating. I especially hate the anachronistic language use.

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to be forgiving on both fics and published works on playing loose with period accuracy, but I will be super judge-y and probably not finish reading if there are any brags of "this is period accurate"/"I did a lot of research!" and there are obvious inaccuracies to the period setting.

I always note my period fics as "not period accurate"

[(Anonymous)]

On that subject, does anyone have any recs for well written and accurate Regency/Georgian era fics?