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"The problem with trying to be historically accurate, is that history doesn't care"
So much of the time we think of historical cultures as being very uniform, but people have always been weird, and our expectations of past behaviour don't always match the reality!
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My personal Tiffany Problem moment is the bit about Don Quixote's helmet being made of cardboard. It always throws me because my mental image of the year 1605 just doesn't include people having cardboard conveniently lying around, even though logically I know they must have because of its use in contemporary bookbinding.
I think a fantastic name for a protagonist in a medieval-setting historical-comedy series would be Tiffany Problem.
Imagine.
Tiffany Problem and the Courtly Love Septangle
Tiffany Problem and the Totally Justified Peasant’s Revolt
Tiffany Problem and the Face-Blind Knights
Tiffany Problem and the Blemmye Emissary
Tiffany Problem and the Pointless Crusade
Tiffany Problem and the Genderbent Monk
Tiffany Problem and the Hayward’s Privilege
Tiffany Problem and the Feudal System in General
Idk, i’m just spitballing here. But if you use this you have to cite me.
it's the worst when 19th-century or earlier antique wooden furniture was actually painted white originally
like
damnit I came out to have a good time being a hater of McKartlynnes everywhere who go ham with the chalk paint and call it Shabby ChicTM and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now
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People on here have covered the Tiffany Problem (that we've got such a strong impression of the past that our suspension of disbelief kicks in for historical facts; ie Tiffany was a nickname for an actual historical name, but it sounds too modern for an author to use in a historical setting without setting off the audience) pretty thoroughly, but one aspect in particular makes me sad.
They used to paint armor. It wasn't supposed to be shining and metallic. That's impractical for both protecting it from rusting, and probably tactical reasons but I don't know shit about that. It's the same as the marble statues from Greece/Rome: the paint faded/wore off, people cleaned up the remains and then assumed that's what they were supposed to look like. And medieval people especially used to wear very colorful identifying stuff, sometimes like a tunic over the armor, but also in their everyday. The past was colorful, not just browns and greys. Can we have fun with that? Can authors take the leap to make the armor painted and the clothes colorful?
The Tiffany Problem, Ancient Egypt Edition:
I can call a character Barry and it’d be perfectly historical.
Did Jo Walton name the Tiffany Problem before or after the existence of Tiffany Aching? Because I feel like Terry Pratchett has secretly been enjoying the existence of things like the Tiffany Problem long before he ever made her, but since Tiffany Aching is such a classic example... Anybody know?
