chat

8425 readers

155 users here now

Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.

As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.

Thank you and happy chatting!

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

It's kinda weird when people will say a piece of media takes place in "Medieval times" and yet it's a fantasy world. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

No, Game of Thrones didn't take place in Medieval times lmao. Dragons and wizards didn't exist in ye olde England.

It would be funny if people did this with more recent time periods and fiction. Like people genuinely thinking that victorian times had giant steampunk spider robots.

I will say it is a little concerning how often I hear people say shit unchallenged like "It takes place in the old days" about something that is a fantasy world that never actually existed. Makes me worried people can't tell fantasy from reality.

Edit: This petty rant is because I was talking about GoT with a friend and told them that the constant sexual assault put me off watching it and they were like "Yeah, but that's what it was like back then."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (5 children)

My pet peeve is when a fantasy setting is based firmly on European medieval society, but operates in an early modern capitalist economy, instead of feudalism. This is most fantasy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right? Where are the serfs!?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Writing theory dennis

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

It is easier to imagine [an entirely different world with magic and dragons and shit], than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This still could be feudal in its decline which saw the emergence of market economies, but generally I agree. I've soften on that opinion as I learned more about the social and economic development of merchant lead reorganization.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Peasants have to annually pay their feudal lord one (1) gold coin that they were somehow able to procure despite living miles away from the nearest city in the middle of a village nobody from that nearest city knows exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

and all the anachronistic plate armor too! as a setting, "medieval times" is fantasy even without the magic