[ SECRET POST #7061 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7061 ⌋

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


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[fscom]

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[fscom]

The obsession fandom has for the English Regency and Late Georgian era just weirds me out.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, it's a distinctive moment in time that works reasonably well with modern ideas about fashion. I'd love to see more Restoration-era stuff, but I would prefer Regency to say, mid-Victorian or more fucking Tudors.

[(Anonymous)]

it's because the clothes are cute and the old-school rich-people lifestyle is fun to fantasize about (since imaginary fantasies don't create the kind of exploitation that the old-school rich-people lifestyle required to function.) Personally, as a historian, I find that era fascinating from a political and cultural perspective, though I must confess I am not immune to the allure of the cute clothes and the old-school rich-people lifestyle fantasy. (But I know too much about the exploitation, and am too aware that I would definitely be one of the people getting exploited, to really wish myself there.)

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, yes, a distant relative made up a family tree dating back to the 1500s in Scotland, and every single person up until one of my great-grandfathers was a farmer. The first time any of my relatives even left the immediate area was for WWI, and the first time any of them went to live elsewhere was 1950. And they weren't super poor - they owned some land - and got to go to school, including the girls, from the early 1600s. So my immediate ancestors were in a considerably better position than many, and it's still all farming, with all the risk and suffering that entails.

[(Anonymous)]

This thing I understand less of all - I find Regency clothes atrocious. Also people keep ignoring headwear and it's the fucking best about Regency clothes, at least it's fun

[feotakahari]

I like the early 1900s, before the First World War. It feels like people actually had hope.

[(Anonymous)]

The Edwardian period?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it was an interesting period politically and socially, but also writers like Jane Austen and Mary Shelley came to prominence in a way that women writers hadn't really done before and I feel like that contributes to it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a really good point.

[(Anonymous)]

I have puzzled about this for a while. I've seen American, South African and Australian writers produce Regencies. I've asked a few of them what the attraction is. Last time I did it, in Australia, at an author talk, I asked what the fascination with British aristocracy is, for people of such proudly independent countries. (I didn't add, and why is it usually dukes?) Someone in the audience piped up, "We like what we like!" which was such a non-sequitur that I couldn't even think of a reply.

I am still baffled.

[(Anonymous)]

WHY THE FUCK IS THE WOMAN IN THE RIGHT CORNER SO FUCKING UNSETTLING WHAT THE FUCK

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, LMAO, Caroline Bingley is just pasted into the photo of the Bennet sisters.