prokopetz:

a-little-bi-furious:

gentlenight:

a-little-bi-furious:

I really have no time for shitty excuses for lack of labeling people bisexual/pansexual/polysexual in fantasy fiction.

“Oh but it’s a period piece, in the culture they don’t have words for sexuality yet!”

I can go on about how “historically accurate” it is to have dragons in these “period pieces”, but ultimately my bottom line is that this is fantasy fiction, not a historical account, the possibilities are endless in this genre of fiction and yet we never get a universe where people are able label their sexuality, it’s not wrong to ask why.

yeah man if they can come up with entire languages and multiple names for every person and place in their fantasy world then they can come up with a word for bisexual or gay that isn’t euphemistic and doesn’t sound anachronistic

tbh authors also have the option of just including orientation labels with no explanation even if it is “anachronistic”, hell if we have entire fantasy worlds where everyone speaks english in the same american accent with no explanation and inexplicable pop culture references we can have lgbtq+ labels

Plus, very often there were, in fact, words – or, at the very, least widely understood polite euphemisms – for many of these things. You can totally find out what those words were, with a bit of research. Writers just assume that nobody’d ever heard of being gay, bisexual, polyamorous, etc. in whatever era they’re writing about, then proceed to make that assumption true through a willful refusal to do their homework. It’s like all those American period pieces that depict a New York City with no black people in it, then try to justify it with “well, it’s set in the 1950s” – the historical accuracy they’re appealing to is, in reality, ahistorical.