#setting a story in the 80s

[drop-dead-dino]

I’m totally normal about these two totally normal dudes :) .

I don’t usually read fics, specially AU related ones, but this one GOT me, holy cow. Check it out if you fancy that sort of thing! 

Love, Death, and Rollerskates by @spadillelicious !

[jerrythebug]

Rise and grind, I'm putting business woman Teddy Kord from Earth-11 on your dash 😳

[elbiotipo]

It's the 80s. I get on in the car with my wifewolf GF. I turn on the radio. "Hungry Like The Wolf" by Duran Duran is playing. I change the station. "Lobo-Hombre en París" by La Unión is playing. I change the station. "Self Control" by Laura Branigan is playing. I change the station. "Entre Caníbales" by Soda Stereo is playing. I change the station. "Shout" by Tears For Fears is playing. I change t

[bubblegumflavor]

Somewhere in New York in an alternate universe...

[quiet-admirer]

I've been considering actually buckling down and writing a story with some of my OCs, but I'd really like it to be a "historical" fiction set in about 1979-1982, and the problem is I like to inject some amount of realism to the things I write, but I wasn't alive at that time and research will probably be difficult.

If I get really into a topic, I don't mind if the research is time-consuming, but I'm guessing that I'm only going to be able to find information scattered in fat lib type of zines or records about the Bear community, which is probably going to be a big effort to compile and sift through what is actually relevant...

There are so many little questions I have, like how hard was it to find clothes in very large sizes back then and at what size did it start getting difficult? How did fashion the time impact kink - like, if certain types of clothing that were more popular lent themselves to certain tropes or themes, like crop-tops or spandex suits etc. Maybe there are completely obsolete things that I'm not even aware of that could be or were used in kinky ways (like, if there was, I don't know, a glove stretching kink back when people had to use those glove stretching tools?). When did certain feedism and g/e terms originate? I haven't been able to find any pre-early 2000s records of feedism and g/e communities, though I've admittedly not done an aggressive search yet.

How easy was it to buy scales over certain weights? Different methods of gaining come in and out of vogue, so what were they then? Diet culture had its own flavor back then, so how did g/e or feedism or their prototypes reflect those differences?

Was it just the wild west and there weren't any of these terms and people just did this kind of kinky stuff anyway or did it fall under the names of other kinks?

Idk maybe I'm being silly or overlooking an obvious resource, but it seems like a huge undertaking and I'd really like to do this research someday once I have the bandwidth, but I'm not even sure I'll be able to find what I want!

But then maybe part of the fun will be creating an imagined feedist past for the 70s/80s! Idk but it's been living at the back of my head for years and I want it to happen someday :)

[vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo]

You know, about the digressions in Les Mis:

I know they can be intimidating and I fully admit that I skipped a lot of them on my first read too (basically I gave up when I got to Waterloo and after that I just started skipping pretty much all of them). And to be fair you won't always get much out of them if you don't have the context, which — if you're not familiar with French history — you probably won't.

But what's great is reading them with people in the fandom who have already done the research and can break down their meaning and significance and point out all the fun references and jokes and explain the context!

Because Les Mis is very much a novel with a message, and much of that message is found in the digressions. Also they're just more fun to read when you realise that Hugo was basically blogging about history, current events and politics, and he's a witty and idiosyncratic commentator, whether you agree with him on everything or not.

Les Mis is his blog and Les Mis Letters is giving you the RSS feed equivalent.

Also you will learn so much about French history and the history of Romanticism and the history of sanitation and... a lot of things frankly. It's perfect entertainment for nerds

[athousandbyeol]

heartlore. [forcebook fanfic]

kasidet thinks jiratchapong is breathtaking—or maybe it's the wine talking. but possibly, he's not the only one trying—because jiratchapong knows it's never enough—wanting.

chapter 1. / chapter 2. / chapter 3.

[flufflecat]

Can someone explain what the narrative stakes are even supposed to be anymore in jjk. All the characters are essentially guaranteed to die, the current cast is comprised almost entirely of characters who showed up 2/3rds into the story and we're supposed to care about them for some reason, and I do not even know what the threat is supposed to be anymore. The apocalypse? Destruction of an amorphous innocent society? Like has ANYTHING been shown of "here's the regular world that apparently needs to be saved" or are we just supposed to assume "this society is just Real Life+, so you're REQUIRED to care if some guy threatens to kill all humanity, because one of those humanities may be... a child" or something. Can you spare two seconds to show anything other than some magic randos fighting, or is it just a superhero story all the time now, minus the fun. Remember when yuuji had friends.

[wystirea]

How I have Kyojuro actually living is he does move to the left just enough that rather than dead center in the solar plexus, it primarily hits his liver and not the nerve itself. Thus also being just enough to not fully hit straight through. Akaza still runs as daybreak hits.

[shopcat]

i've decided if some sort of theoretical atla animated film about the earth avatar has to be set in the modern verse it should either be like INCREDIBLY different from ours to stop things from being ... bad. and that the spirit world influences have really ramped up so that it still feels like magical realism or w/e. but alternatively it would just be really good if it wasn't set in like the 2020s but very obviously the 70s-90s that would be awesome for me personally

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

Ocgrams are so !!! so !! cool !!!!! I hope more people make more of them !!!!

[mimimonart]

In my mind tutu and lohengrin meet early on and it plays out similarly to how it does with fakir and ahiru but like

instead of not trusting her and not wanting mythos heart returned it's not trusting her and not being sure if this elusive magic bird woman should be queen

[minamotoz]

said i was done w dsmp related content on this blog but i need a bit more time to cope w how these two ended

[guillotineman]

The Shining (1980)

This was the stuntman who took Jack's fall down the stairs.

The deleted hospital ending...

[bravevolunteer]

you guys ever think about how in the fnaf universe this corner in utah probably ended up a weird little center of technological innovation. no just me okay-

[quaranmine]

Honestly, has nothing to do with anything in the published hcxfw fic at all, but given the year setting I couldn’t help but be curious (since it sounds like Scar keeps good contact with his mom). If firewatch!Scar and Grian ever hitched up together someday way down the line, you think Scar would try to hide it from his mother (be it his or Grian's request) or is she understanding that Scar is able to be open to her about his feelings?

Hello anon! This is honestly a very specific question that I just have not thought about? Well, not in the context of their families/friends. I do think that the time period would influence things of course. This is a story grounded—often very tragically—in realism, so it wouldn't just be ignored. It is even implied in the main fic that one of the reasons Grian's boss is awful toward him is that he doesn't actually believe that he and Mumbo were just "roommates." How fw!Grian and fw!Scar themselves would navigate a relationship could go a million different ways depending on how the post-storyline/au-storyline goes. (Is this their first gay relationship? Is this a version of the story with past Grumbo or not?)

I haven't written that and do not presently plan to, so I don't want to definitively lock down any specific ideas. You're free to theorize what you want.

However, in general my answer is that I feel like I've traumatized both of these characters enough that I'd rather give them a little peace with supportive family/friends. I think his mom would be okay with it. I think she probably just desperately wants him to be happy after the last decade. Losing your husband and almost losing your son at the exact same time probably does that to you.