The suffering

SonHwa February 15, 2021 2:12 am

So my girl just finished eating pancakes, made out of processed flower, whisked with a proper metal whisk, in a plastic bowl on a 1910s kitchen counter - and she doesn't know what sugar is?
I'm all for cottagecore fluff but at this rate she's gonna say she doesn't know what a horse is since she has a tesla truck. At least try to be consistent on some level.

Responses
    Frogbank February 16, 2021 4:58 am

    her grandfather probably just didn’t buy any because it was expensive and since she never talked to anyone then she didn’t hear about it. Plus, the townspeople wouldn’t have been able to afford it anyway.

    SonHwa February 16, 2021 11:06 pm

    My point was more that even though I know manhwas take s lot of liberties when it comes to historical accuracy it's usually more choeesive and thoughtful. For example, everyone's dresses might be from different periods, but good style make it work, that and the exposure to tropes like that.

    However if your story puts a focus on some cottagecore inspired, set in some ambiguous middle ages, life of an outcast, it requires a lot more work.
    It's weird if a poor executionor has a wire mesh fence from the hardware store. It doesn't make sense that she's never heard of sugar she she has baking powder to make pancakes rise. I can see the sugar being the refind kind, but I can't see her having a well off familiar kitchen cabinet from a decade later.
    It just goes on and on and it honestly makes it seem like there was hardly any care put into it which is such a missed opportunity.

    Frogbank February 17, 2021 1:35 am
    My point was more that even though I know manhwas take s lot of liberties when it comes to historical accuracy it's usually more choeesive and thoughtful. For example, everyone's dresses might be from different... SonHwa

    Ahhh, I get what you’re saying now~~ I still think it’s a cute story, though a little more on the historically inaccurate side, haha (︶o︶) (⌒▽⌒)