Breathless Delight

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Personal commission for Hanna!

grumbling about feelings

I know I’ve said this before but vampires

therefore I am in dire need of a heist film where a group of vampires band together to steal back their old stuff from museums

Oceans 1100 AD

Very interested in the hardest part of this beign the vampires trying to trick someone into granting them permission to enter the premises earlier in the day

I feel like this has several simple solutions!

(all ideas shared on this blog are public domain, feel free to go nuts. you can find more story ideas like this on my ko-fi)

Hoops I've embroidered this year ✨️

Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period

for me, like the prev tags said, this goes more for big things than little ones

plenty of people in the past weren't as racist, sexist, classist, etc. as the official party line for their time and culture. hell, they found the diary of a Yorkshire farmer from the early 19th century where he basically says that (male) homosexuality is natural and doesn't deserve the death penalty then imposed by English law- and implies that some other people around him felt the same way. your protagonist doesn't have to hold Macro-Level Views that you or readers would find abhorrent

but. you can sell that much better if the person seems thoroughly grounded in the day-to-day culture of the era. of course there's a king! obviously corsets are basic, ubiquitous support garments! [insert most common local religion here] is objective fact! using slang is rude in many settings! one doesn't talk to men about one's monthlies! etc.

(and like yes you should probably acknowledge that people held the Negative Macro-Level views too. it doesn't have to be your protagonist, but barring alternate history...it's unrealistic to have NOBODY feel that way. you can play around with it, too, in how you can give sympathetic characters some ideas that we now consider controversial or unfortunate and keep them sympathetic)

Totally agree with you, what I meant originally here was less that every character needs to hold abhorrent views all the time and more along the lines of the fact that if you're writing, like, a feminist character in a story set in 1775, you shouldn't have them talking like they know what twitter is, they should articulate their beliefs like someone from 1775. I love reading historical fiction about characters who are more progressive than many of those around them but it irritates me when their progressive beliefs aren't, as you put it, thoroughly grounded in the era they're meant to be in.

characters talking like they’re from 20XX or having modern political opinions about systems of oppression can circle back to victim-blaming

if you’re using real historical suffering and injustice, putting twitter takes into a character’s mouth like they understand global economics or know about the Geneva conventions diminishes the actual real people who lived through those events “slaves should have leveraged their roll in the plantation economy for better working conditions” “if these Chinese peasants just read books more they’d be able to fight the British empire!”

lot of poorly written historical fiction can feel like they’re calling historic people dumb and making fun of them while patting modern readers on the back for knowing marital rape is a no-no

A cosmic tribute to my current favourite comment in YouTube history

the gender performance of dolly parton and bruce springsteen (sources: x x)

went to a discussion led by elliot page earlier today and there were many good things said but at one point the other presenter asked him "what's a cool thing about yourself that has nothing to do with being trans?" and he said "uhh this is all I've got going for me" and then paused before adding "if anyone has three oranges, I can juggle"

I've really been enjoying using blue ink recently

some dykes for your feed :) going to be making pints of this later this year >:)

[ID: A digital sketch of a butch lesbian standing with his hands in his pockets. He is wearing a plaid shirt buttoned to the top over carpenter pants. He has his carabiner clipped to the hammer loop. He is smiling, and lines are radiating both from his smile and from his carabiner of keys. Under the image is a handwritten caption that reads: “butch joy in the bathroom mirror at 10:38 pm”. END ID]

weird vases

Me when Spock

From TV Guide, April 29-May 5, 1967

....by Isaac Asimov