Nov 15, 2022
This is a deeply niche post but I am thinking about how, similar to Americans writing wildly historically inaccurate Abducted By the 18th-Century Scottish Laird-style romance novels, the Time of Isolation on Barrayar would probably be a really popular setting for romances!
There’s probably a whole university course in it actually ‘Depictions of the Other: Barrayar through Galactic Eyes,’ with Professora Vorthys.
#vorkosigan saga#lmmb#I feel like there’s textual support for this I mean ekaterin complains about kids romanticising the ToI#oh- what does a barrayaran vs a betan romance novel look like?#I think Bullock Creek is fairly Barrayaran and also pretty closely fits how miles approaches romance#geography is trying to kill you! you have to trick everyone around you! lots of Duty to Family#notably he never told Lorna any of the shit he did for her to keep the farm#which fits with miles in ACC
