[ SECRET POST #6002 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6002 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ooooof, very mixed feelings about this one (also I know nothing about the setting or the property in question, so just going off what's said in the secret).

On the one hand, I very much agree that writing historical stuff using hyper-modern terminology about identity is frustrating! Not only is it historically inaccurate, but it's a flat and boring way of writing.

On the other hand, a lot of people use the fact that historical attitudes were different as an excuse to indulge in straight-out bigotry. And that misses the mark even worse than writing everything as totally up-to-date and contemporary, and I think there's just no justification at all for it. People historically were more than capable of thinking rationally about, discussing, and criticizing the dominant social mores of their time and advocating for equality, humanity and decency; they just didn't necessarily do it in the same ways or using the same language that we do today. That dynamic is so interesting to me and it's such a big part of what I want to see out of fic set in historical times - it's the fact that history *isn't* linear and often people think in ways that are just *different* from what we would expect.

On the third hand, getting that kind of historical difference right is very difficult and often requires significant research. So I can't fully blame fic writers for not wanting to do it and just falling back on contemporary attitudes instead.