“The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear. Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals.”

If you’re going to try and make your medieval fantasy world full of Gritty Realism, then by definition you have to show the positive parts of the time period you’re trying to emulate.

Copying and pasting your tags because they’re perfect:

Gardens! Colourful food! Everyone eating bacon! Apprentices going on strike because they are SICK OF EATING FISH! Books! Guilds! Festivals plays market-days and fairs and mummers and lawyers and religious arguments and dancing (and none of that TV/movie takes on the volta and all of that, oh no, gimme the peasants’ version where big hefty farmer boys tossed their big hefty gfs up into the air and caught them again) COLOURFUL CASTLES WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS DREARY AND DARK MY GOD has no one heard of tapestries. Or PAINT.

Historical accuracy seems inaccurate to people that have been trained to see the same drabby Ye Olde Mittel Ages setting again and again AND AGAIN. It has efficiently created a feedback loop wherein actual period-accurate costumes would seem out of place because they are TOO colorful and TOO cheerful.

Them: Stop casually referencing Shakespeare in everyday conversation.

real estate agent: so what kind of property are you looking for?