{"id":284793,"date":"2018-09-08T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/08\/luchagcaileag-ayellowbirds-dr-archeville\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:50:11","slug":"luchagcaileag-ayellowbirds-dr-archeville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/08\/luchagcaileag-ayellowbirds-dr-archeville\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

luchagcaileag<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ayellowbirds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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dr-archeville<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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wetwareproblem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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melusineloriginale<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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brunhiddensmusings<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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jeneelestrange<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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incorrectdiscworldquotes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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tilthat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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TIL of the \u201cTiffany Problem\u201d. Tiffany is a medieval name\u2014short for Theophania\u2014from the 12th century. Authors can\u2019t use it in historical or fantasy fiction, however, because the name looks too modern. This is an example of how reality is sometimes too unrealistic.<\/a><\/p>\n

via reddit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAuthors can\u2019t use it in fantasy fiction, eh? We\u2019ll see about that\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Terry Pratchett, probably<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Try to implement anything but a conservative\u2019s sixth grade education level of medieval or Victorian times and you will butt into this. all. the. time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was a literaly fad in the 1890\u2032s for nipple rings for all genders(and NO, it was NOT under the mistaken belief that it would help breastfeeding\u2013there\u2019s LOTS of doctors\u2019 writing at the time telling people to STOP and that they thought it would ruin the breast\u2019s ability to breastfeed well, etc). It was straight up because the Victorians were freaks, okay
Imagine trying to make a Victorian character with nipple rings. IMAGINE THE ACCUSATIONS OF GROSS HISTORICAL INACCURACY<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

people just really, REALLY have entrenched ideas of what people in the past were like<\/p>\n

tell them the vikings were clean, had a complex democratic legal system, respected women, had freeform rap battles, and had child support payments? theyd call you a liar<\/p>\n

tell them that chopsticks became popular in china during the bronze age because street food vendors were all the rage and they wanted to have disposable eating utensils? theyll say youre making that up<\/p>\n

tell them native americans had a trade network stretching from canada to peru and built sacred mounds bigger then the pyramids of giza? you are some SJW twisting facts<\/p>\n

ancient egypt had circular saws, debt cards, and eye surgery? are you high?<\/p>\n

our misconception of medieval peasants being illiterate and living in poverty in one room mud huts being their own creation as part of a century long tax aversion scam? you stole that from the game of thrones reject bin<\/p>\n

iron age india had stone telescopes, air conditioning, and the number 0 along with all \u2018arabic\u2019 numbers including algebra and calculus? i understand some of those words.<\/p>\n

romans had accurate maps detailing vacation travel times along with a star rating for hotels along the way, fast food restaurants, swiss army knives, black soldiers in brittany, traded with china, and that soldiers wrote thank-you notes when their parents sent them underwear in the mail? but they thought the earth was flat!<\/p>\n

ancient bronze age mesopotamia had pedantic complaints sent to merchants about crappy goods, comedic performances, and transgender\/nobinary representation? what are you smoking?<\/p>\n

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Adding my personal favorite: people in medieval Europe took baths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

India had ways of processing iron for weatherproofing that we still can\u2019t match 1600 years later.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Truth is stranger than fiction, and history is weirder than you think.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

this post gets better every time it comes across my dash. To provide some more: those Romans also had vending machines, automated puppet plays, doors that opened to the sound of horns when you lit a fire in front of them, and working steam engines<\/i>. All invented by one dude, Hero of Alexandria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The misunderstandings of the Victorian era continue to vex and bewilder me, but all of these are good and I knew only some of them!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

luchagcaileag: ayellowbirds: dr-archeville: wetwareproblem: melusineloriginale: brunhiddensmusings: jeneelestrange: incorrectdiscworldquotes: tilthat: TIL of the \u201cTiffany Problem\u201d. Tiffany is a medieval name\u2014short for Theophania\u2014from the 12th century. Authors can\u2019t use it in historical or fantasy fiction, however, because the name looks too modern. This is an example of how reality is sometimes too unrealistic. via reddit.com \u201cAuthors can\u2019t … <\/p>\n

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