#whenever I'm reading these things I assume the author just has zero sense of their own characters' awareness and presence in their own world | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

llycaons · 2 months ago

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smt I find SO annoying in a period work is when a character expresses some very common attitute typical of the time towards, like, women, and the mc specifically really overreacts like WOW DUDE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABT to indicate they're Good People as if they've never heard those thinge before??? obviously, characters don't have to agree w mainstream attitudes of the time but they could act less like a 21st century teenager dropped into the year 1780 whose just grown up in a vacuum from the society around them and just hearing about like, financial abuse for the first time

#whenever I'm reading these things I assume the author just has zero sense of their own characters' awareness and presence in their own world #and they're just trying to make a point for a younger reader #or (even more pathetic) be relatable to a reader who can't conceive of the idea that people in the past lived under very different condtion #unless the character is SUPPOSED to be painfully naive or very young ig #but it seems to me that it's undercutting the courage of the ppl intentionally defying the oppression they lived under and experienced #context matters obvi...like this is a situation in which the mc WOULD know better #and the author is being dumb abt it #cor.txt

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