#but set in modern times (well

[canisalbus]

✦ Hound mode ✦

#meat! food for the pack! we're eating well tonight! #for context I mentioned earlier that in their setting normal four-legged dogs don't exist #which is a bummer since in canon timeline Vasco likes to hunt and in that era hunting usually involved a lot of hounds #and they just have to do without #own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumblr #Machete #Vasco #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #modern au #comics #typically sighthounds are also known for their high prey drive but I think Machete's reaction time and fitness leave a lot to be desired

[resdayn]

"headcanoning mizu as transmasc is racist because mizu is half japanese" is SO disingenuous

you guys know there are transmasc japanese people right? there are transmasc people who are mixed race? is them existing also racist? should transmascs only be allowed to see similarities to their gender in white people?

#honestly some of you are using 'racism' as a cover to be overtly transphobic and it shows #blue eye samurai #there could be a discussion about interpreting historical gender from a modern lens. but just because bes is set in edo period japan #doesnt mean it isnt ALSO a modern tv show made by people who also did not live in that time period #but really the transmasc discourse (read: overt transphobia) is alive and well in 2023 and it really. Really shows. #my posts #trans #ftm #transandrophobia

[writeouswriter]

Girl, help, the book authors are trying too hard to be "hip" with the fleeting "teen lingo" and trends again, immediately dating their works before they're even released

#eye twitching seeing certain modern slang in for real published books unironically #tiktokian slang that is out of date within weeks #it's a pet peeve of mine but so is modern books mentioning tiktok or stuff at all esp. when not relevant in general #god it pulls you out of the illusion #turns it into this very set in stone time frame rather than letting it just be or resonate on its own which is fine sometimes if natural #you can't avoid some mentions of some things when setting it today but in these cases it's so forced #hello fellow kidz.jpeg vibe in book form #books #this isn't even specific to ya books i've seen it in adult books as well #booklr #petty as i am i once stopped reading a first chapter excerpt for mentioning spotify by name on page 1 i'm sorry #this other book though oh they've used online phrases and boomer insult 3 times and brought up tiktok twice it's on thin f-ing ice #ignore me i'm petty but don't ignore me because this is a legit problem in the media industry #don't even get me started on text speak in the dialogue or texting sections yeah #it's not quite as bad if it's some fake variation of an app or just generic about being online but mentioning by name oh i'm gonna explode #most times anyway #i have yet to see it handled well #this was about slang though so tangent but !! gaah

[skitskatdacat63]

Tradition vs Modernity vs Comradery

+ context & lore:

In the first drawing, Fernando is wearing a capote de paseo, which is what bullfighters wear before the match begins, as seen below:

In the second, Seb is shouting the very familiar "Olé" which is shouted by the crowd to praise the matador. He's a little brat, so of course he's yelling it for himself, but he did get many 💐

The third(which was a random sketch I had that I didn't think I'd finish tonight, so ignore if its messy) has very important context to me. Before going to the final act and killing the bull, matadors dedicate their montera(hat)(and symbolically: their kill) to a a specific person in the audience(or just the public as a whole.) Seb and Fernando are finally in the same color! Seb is bowing!!! And Fernando is honoring Seb!!!! Also ignore that I drew Seb's post-retirement hair. Though, maybe this drawing is supposed to represent Fernando making a dedication to his now-gone rival 😔(Seb: stop telling people im dead!)

Now, some more lore :D

So I talked about this in my last matador post but I'll expand more. I think it's very funny to characterize Fernando in this au as this fun-hating traditionalist. Because you have to understand; he's only this way when it comes to Seb. Because you absolutely KNOW he was doing silly, unserious shit back when he was younger. But absolutely god forbid Seb do anything silly.

It's very ironic because there literally is a part in the third act of a bull fight where it's basically encouraged to be a bit silly. This is a tad morbid, but basically right before they deliver the killing blow, some show their mastery over the bull by doing some superfluous action(ex. kissing the bull, kneeling in front of the bull.) There's some guy who literally would lean on the bull and mime taking a call. But anyways, Seb would def do this. I've not been able to draw it exactly how I want, but he would bend down and do his little bull horn symbol and mime charging at the bull. (Fernando, trying to make up reasons to hate Seb: oh my god, look at this blatant disrespect, look how he is disrespecting the bull, I cannot believe how rude this boy is!)

Also there's something to be said about how the matador shows mastery over the bull by kissing it or bowing to it...and Seb is technically the bull in this au and Fernando is the matador. There's just this unfortunate level of weird power inbalance that still lingers even though their rivalry is over and can't be affected anymore. There was no succinct answer about who truly was better because Seb was forced out of it. So there's always gonna be this level of "is he just pitying me? Is he just mocking me? Is he just patronizing me?" on Seb's part whenever Fernando praises him or makes dedications to him. And Fernando's always going to be haunted by the fact that there's no answer to who is truly better because he'll never know if Seb had reached his full potential or not. Anyways, they also have nasty sex while wearing their costumes and do weird bull/matador roleplay :)

#god do not ask me at what time i am writing this post #its genuinely so bad and terrible 😭 #i meant to only draw the first two but remembered i had the sketch of the third one #and thought hey might as well finish it!! at a uhhhhh already late hour #BUT HEY I DREW THEM ALL AND I LIKEY SO :) #third one is a bit messy tho cause im still not 100% on what i want their 'aston' era clothes to look like #but good enough for [undisclosed hour] so yes hello please take more matador au :) #was just pondering drawing more chibis bcs ive made more aus since those chibi sets i drew #and now have these so :) yayyy matadorsssss :D #but anyways the joke of this post is that whole modernity vs tradition meme so hope that makes sense :) #its super late and my brain is lacking comprehensive thought so i hope this all makes sense #catie.art. #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #fernando alonso #vettonso #matador au

[araneitela]

Me staring at test results: It makes so much sense for her, but if I don't specify or elaborate, then we end up with the fanon take. Ugh, how do I easily explain that if you look at the word 'sex' through a much more old-fashioned lens instead of the modern one, that you'll get a vastly different picture of it?

/takes angycat.png typing to my tags

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. #[ post-it. ] in a way; you are poetry material. you are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. #[ i'm so tired. i need to write a post on this or something. and somehow add it to my pinned. in some way. ] #[ 'sex' and 'seduction' are /not/ wrong in my opinion. HOWEVER-- they are /very wrong/ if we go by modern labels and perception. ] #[ god the horror of writing a muse that is so interlaced in a modern world; setting and culture but seems to /ooze/ something archaic. ] #[ this level of refinement isn't of our times in my opinion. these things that she loves aren't commonly loved nowadays. ] #[ there's so much about her that is old-fashioned to me and it's so in my face. and yet fanon doesn't see it. ] #[ i can't believe i'm an old millennial who's screaming boomer or older things. ] #[ but like can we acknowledge that sex in today's age isn't the same as it used to be? not /always/ but more generally so. ] #[ can we acknowledge that /seduction/ didn't always mean what people see it to mean now? ] #[ can we acknowledge that the FEMME FETALE TROPE HAS CHANGED /LEAGUES/ since the 2000s? ] #[ which is my biggest beef actually. and maybe all of my frustration plays into this most. it's that the femme fatale now is sexualized. ] #[ while that is /not/ what the femme fatale used to be. kafka plays into the old school femme fatale so well. film noir days. ] #[ i had this same struggle on yelan where they make VERY OBVIOUS draws to it by her music in her trailer. god; the jazz. ] #[ but kafka suffers from this so very much as well to a point where i don't dare to call her a femme fatale because then it's fanon. ] #[ the fanon i hate so much. ] #[ but just uuuughhhh. UGHHH. it's so much to explain. ]

[bifrosted-flakes]

The best part of watching wuxia tv shows is the product placements and I mean this genuinely give that tang dynasty warlord a Coca-Cola

#I will never be tired of in character advertisements #I’m sure this is a thing in c dramas set in modern times as well I just don’t know as much about those #the untamed #mdzs #word of honor

[potahun]

physical and mental needs: fang duobing sipping on boba teas with a straw

#lhl #mysterious lotus casebook #fang duobing #that and ice americanos #obsessed with the image of various zeng shunxi in full fang duobing attire with his boba teas on set #modern fang duobing drinks bbt 100% and all the time #damn now i want bbt as well should have gotten one yesterday

[strugglingclassicist]

Helen: And who did you say you were? Pen: Penthesilea, Amazon Queen, who went once/ to war to save Queen Helen (that was you)./ "Able to make men mourn" my name signifies, / supreme Amazon speeding to the neediness of Troy,/ leader of twelve good warrior maidens,/ battle-scarred/ and with fierce reputation. We were the last/ hope that queenly Troy could keep intact/ and reachable, the greatest beauty in the world. Helen: I remember that day./ The sky was a sheet of crystal/ and the wind was still. I ran to see your arrival/ from my windowsill./ You were like Artemis to us, you arrow-carrying bear-dykes./ I could tell Hector/ and the other men had learnt/ some of their skill from you,/ and then too, what can confuse/ a man more than a naked female/ breast with a bloody ax behind it? Pen: You and I met before the fight./ I rode into the hall/ on the great long-legged stride/ my mother prized me for./ You turned almost at once/ to look me up and down./ My cheeks burned with pride/ though inside/ I felt more like a clown. Helen: The Amazon were coming!/ To fight on our side!/ We women were electrified./ You looked strange to us/ but exhilarating./ I was especially electrified/ by you. Pen: I knew it too, that moment/ at least, when our eyes met across the room./ I was your last battle ax/ and you threw it.

Judy Grahn, the Queen of Swords

#very interesting play #about the story of inanna and her descent to ereshkigal in the underworld but also connecting the figure of inanna with amongst other Helen #but set in modern times (well #mid 20th cent.) #Judy Grahn #tagamemnon #classical reception #quotes

[seyaryminamoto]

I know I just put an ask in this morning, but do you happen to have any good Sokkla birth fic recs? I mean pregnancy is fine too but I'm lacking on actual birth scenes and the few I've seen are so sweet 😭 something about those two's personalities is so intriguing in those fics idk Sokka by Azula's side while she's in physical pain may be my weakest point when it comes to Sokkla and I'm unapologetic

Hmmm, off the top of my head, Proving you Wrong came to mind, even if that's not the core subject but I very much remember a birth scene there haha. I have a lead-up to birth but I didn't actually write the birth itself in Matching Heartbeats Chapter 2... Sorry, it's just insanely challenging to write childbirth, hahaha 🤣 There's also I'll Meet You At The Bottom? I no longer remember if it went in depth with the birth because it's been a while but some part of me thinks it did... For pregnancy there's Yeet!, Changings, and Singing Metal. If you want, you probably can find a lot I haven't had a chance to read just yet in this particular filtered search, while I can't attest to high quality every time, I'm sure you'll find plenty of good stuff there regardless!

Hope that helps and happy reading!

#vanilladrizzlequeen #not that i wanna spoil but there... IS... a childbirth scene... #in a certain massive story... #it may not be exactly what you'd like because well plot reasons #but it miiiiight be closer to what you'd like than you'd expect?? #does that make sense?? #it's possibly the one time I wrote childbirth for Azula #it's soooo hard to get it right more so in settings that are not exactly modern #like man i legit read myself a full pdf on Ancient China childbirth techniques and traditions #to try and make it as legitimate as possible #it's a scary thing to write almost scarier than massive battles (?) #... kay not really big battles are the worst #after Gladiator I'm quitting my job as an epic battles writer and I'll just write slice of life (?)

[llycaons]

xl went through so much insane suffering, things like being stabbed until he barely resembles a human form and being locked in a coffin for literally a hundred years, but I think making him immortal and ever-healing and showing how much he learned from his experiences AND ending his story with so much closure and close relationships makes his tragedies a lot easier to bear than wwx's. like, emotionally

#when I see xl I go marlon brando voice *look how they massacred my boy* #reading books 2 and 4 going wow this is really sad im glad that's behind xl and he's at such peace #reading the flashbacks in mdzs and going WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK #wwx does have a nice little recovery arc in the book but he's still clearly really messed up from a lot that had happened to him #and compartmentalizing and avoiding his past and desperately trying to survive another day #in a way xl really wasn't. he was just chilling #this is why I never read tgcf fic unless it's very goofy or pokes fun at canon #it feels like such a more complete story with no loose ends or lingering issues #tho tbf I don't really search for novel fic I search for cql fic and happen to run into novel stuff that I like sometimes #which is usually modern with magic or dealing with various things I thought weren't handled well like the sex scenes #also he was by all accounts a very stable and happy child and young adult. the shit didn't even start until he was 17 #by that point wwx had lost two sets of parents been hunted on the street by feral dogs as a starving child been tortured multiple times #has lost his home to a violent invasion had given up his core in a painful procedure that he knew would eventually kill him #and been in a war #hm. anyway. #tgcf txp

[anza-redstar]

Just found out that ‘Varney the Vampire’, notorious mid-Victorian penny-dreadful, is on Project Gutenberg and chock-full of important vampire knowledge from the year 1845. Vampires are from Norway, apparently? And can be killed in the regular way by being shot at, but can then be revived by moonlight? And are bad at getting over fences?

“They looked in the direction he indicated. At the end of this vista was the wall of the garden. At that point it was full twelve feet in height, and as they looked, they saw the hideous, monstrous form they had traced from the chamber of their sister, making frantic efforts to clear the obstacle.

Then they saw it bound from the ground to the top of the wall, which it very nearly reached, and then each time it fell back again into the garden with such a dull, heavy sound, that the earth seemed to shake again with the concussion. They trembled—well indeed they might, and for some minutes they watched the figure making its fruitless efforts to leave the place.”

I do also have to give them credit for the conversation that goes “Hey, you know our swooning damsel sister, who has done nothing so far but faint and get attacked by vampires while the narrator breathlessly describes how sexily terrified she is? It’s probably cool to leave her alone with our elderly mother while we investigate mausoleums, you think?” “…Well, we’ll give her a gun, right?” “Obviously we’ll give her a gun, dude.”

“Flora changed colour, and slightly trembled, and then, as if ashamed of her fears, she said,—"Go, go; I will not detain you. Surely no harm can come to me in presence of my mother." "We shall not be gone longer than the time I mention to you," said Henry. 

"Oh, I shall be quite content. Besides, am I to be kept thus in fear all my life? Surely, surely not. I ought, too, to learn to defend myself." Henry caught at the idea, as he said,— 

"If fire-arms were left you, do you think you would have courage to use them?" "I do, Henry." 

"Then you shall have them; and let me beg of you to shoot any one without the least hesitation who shall come into your chamber."

#varney the vampire #and might as well tag this #dracula daily #we all know why i was interested in the pop-culture understanding of vampires in the mid-late Victorian period #it was published 1845-ish but appears to be *set* in the early 1700s btw #which is about equivalent to somebody today writing a thriller set in the late 1800s #and i can't imagine they were doing a lot of research #so this is probably about as accurate to any particular time period as a modern steampunk show is ditto #anyway let's give Lucy Westenra a blunderbuss

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

I see so many talk about RTD1 as if it looked like Season 1 for the entire duration, but it just didn't. There was a lot of trial and error in that early seasons as they figured out how to make the show and refined things as they went. In fact, they were sometimes refining so quickly that the end of Doomsday doesn't even match the start of The Runaway Bride.

#doctor who #dw #rtd1 #you can tell by season 3 that the bbc was really fully invested in that show #it starts to look a lot more polished #and then they go the hd cameras for the specials #if rtd had done the 5th season it still would've look a lot better than his first four #despite what many think he did not set out to make the show look bad #he wanted to look like a well made modern action/sci-fi drama #and end all the jokes about dw just being about wobbly sets #he wanted people to take the show seriously #and he succeeded #it is just that we're now looking back at it from 18 years later #which is a longer gap than between survival and rose #in fact you do see this same kind of evolution in classic who #the way the hartnell stories were shot was completely different from how the troughton stories were #while the shows budget has never been huge #it has always changed and adapted with the times

[ace-fandom-dumbass]

reading the new percy jackson book and the timeline of the series has to have officially shifted, which means if my maths is right (and i'm pretty sure it is) percy's new birth year (books) is the same year the first book came out

#it also means that percy and i were born the same year now (2005) #i specified books because if the show goes with a modern day setting show percy will have been born even more recently #which is actually kind of terrifying to think about #because it'd be (show) ...2011? 2012? based on my math #i was only 2 years away from discovering percy jackson at that time #stopped only by my teacher's refusal to let me use my actual reading level and restricting me to one grade above mine for reading level #anyhow this feels like a weird realization #like im not only the same age as the characters because in series time slowed and i caught up #but i now share the birth year as well. idk #my source for the timeline shifting to keep up with modern day is iris talking about watching wandavision #like im not pulling this from nowhere we've got recent pop culture references in the new book

[lighthouseborn]

actually I don't know if I've said this on the blog before: modern verses Henry has a tricky thing going on with his travel sometimes because he was born on international waters and also may or may not have an official birth certificate i actually. i haven't done enough digging to decide one way or the other yet, but. the whole thing was very non-standard and sometimes causes problems, is what i do know.

#i'm actually not even sure if it was Literally international waters or if actually his parents were located somewhere at the time that #they didn't want to disclose so it was just like. AT SEA. #i know this generally ends up at ''well wherever your parents are from then'' but there's also the question about the certificate etc. #possibly also this is resolved and is more of a past issue he had? esp. considering the verse has evolved and now there's #the schooling element but. u know #thoughts thoughts thoughts #i think it's interesting/fitting that he has the 'obvious parentage and yet somewhat stateless' thing going on it makes sense to me #au — the wind will set me racing ( modern. ) #au — the ghosts that we knew ( modern ii. ) #oh and actually #au — & do the next right thing ( detroit: become human. ) #<- technically has the same/similar history as well

[mikurulucky]

Johan and Peewit are both neurodivergent, you can't change my mind. ^_^

#twas an unknown thing in the middle ages #but in the modern age they'd know what's going on in their brain #headcanon #why johan? #well i've projected so many of my quirks onto him in my headcanons lately #and i've suspected i was neurodivergent in some way for quite some time now #may elaborate in another post once i've got a solid idea for what his traits are both in a medieval and modern setting #peewit definitely has adhd i will say that #johan et pirlouit #johan and peewit #the smurfs

[the-busy-ghost]

Actually our dating conventions are entirely arbitrary and almost anybody’s concept of when the Middle Ages began or ended is justifiable and valid, in fact to some extent even the concept of the ‘Middle Ages’ is entirely arbitrary.

That being said it is hilarious to me that the English pick 1485 as the end of the Middle Ages, that’s so specific. Creates the wonderful idea that the minute Henry Tudor stepped onto a field in Leicestershire all the locals started updating their wardrobe like “Well guess we’re in the Early Modern Period now, better get rid of all this old stuff”

#I mean to be fair I can't really think of a better date for 'ending' the Middle Ages in England #And we do NEED dates #And in the absence of any major events like that in other countries it does get confusing- the unfortunate Scots are permanently confused #Like we're just not sure whether we're in the early modern period or not for basically the whole of the 16th century #But especially up to 1560 #Sometimes people play it safe and talk about 'Renaissance' Scotland but that's just a cop-out #And I say this as someone who freely uses the term herself #So it's definitely difficult to assign a specific event or set of events the importance of moving a country from one period to another #But on the other hand I don't really think anybody knew for sure that the Tudor dynasty would stick around #Or that the massive civil war the English had been indulging in for the past thirty years was definitely definitely over this time #And why couldn't the Middle Ages have ended in 1484 or 1486 instead #I mean did people in Kent or Derbyshire or Northumberland really feel all that different #Just one really pissed off guy down in Somerset in 1510 'What do you mean it's the early modern period now? Nobody tells me nothin!' #It's more odd though because on a popular level a lot of people don't really interrogate that date #Like academics and so on will obviously say 'Well we use 1485 but it's a more complex process than that' #But on a popular level you get people being like 'Well we English left the Middle Ages in 1485 but those other countries were so backward #They still were mediaeval in the 1490s can you believe it!' #But also as I say the concept of the Middle Ages is insane anyway #Roughly a thousand years squeezed under one heading #Historical categorisation is completely insane