V. Martin
@vmartinwrites.bsky.social
other people i met: a guy who makes chainmail! the society for creative anachronism! monty python fellow! (no, really)
Anachronism
A thing belonging to a period other than that in which it exists (especially something that is conspicuously old-fashioned)
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Seb Duggan
@sebduggan.uk
Sometimes a book jolts you out of it with a blatant anachronism. Case in point: an arrest being made in 1968 with the full modern police caution, which wasn’t introduced until the 90s.
Granted, the author is an American now living in the UK, but a UK editor should have picked up on it…
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Fast Suzy
@fastsuzy.bsky.social
When I see #RubyBridges is 72 today I realize that she is 12 years younger than my (estranged) mother. My parents’ deep racism suddenly recontextualized from a disgraceful anachronistic anomaly, to the sad reality that the people of “that time” are still in THIS time voting and making decisions.
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