#this is the problem w writing historical fiction while your advisor (is that the right word?) knows shit about history tbh

[drinkthemlock]

just showed the first small draft of my br regency story to my teacher and he said: “well i think you need to reforce how problematic slavery is more often”. hello???? one would think the reader knows that slavery and sexism and racism and ableism are bad without the author having to tell them again and again! omg

#(have to specify it’s brazilian regency bc of the anglos…..) #also something about the gay experience not being realistic….. girl the is a lower class black gay man in 1830s brazil. i can’t possibly- #use modern understandings of sexuality with him hello!!! #this is the problem w writing historical fiction while your advisor (is that the right word?) knows shit about history tbh #basically he wants me to write a contemporary novel with contemporary characters (w contemporary ideas) that just coincidentally takes- #-place in the 1830s. the bridgertonification of it all #(something something it’s impossible that all the (usually wealthy) characters in your historical novel have perfect progressive opinions- #that never offend contemporary sensibilities. that would be like someone 200 years from now writing a book in which everyone is a radical- #-communist. it just doesn’t make sense. brazil was reactionaryland in the 1830s. you’d get called a jacobin for being a constitutionalist)