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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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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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."

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The issue isn't really with the dragons and wizards and steampunk mechs, though, so much as that the whole world of the work is fictional. Like if someone were to say that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy takes place in or about the late 1970s, I wouldn't see much of a point in disputing it even though the Earth is decidedly not a computer built by mice to calculate the ultimate question to which the answer is 42.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Obviously not, that would be ludicrous. It was COMMISSIONED by mice.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

Oh yeah, sorry, of course.