Alternative Tropes
Alternative tropes-like instead of author/murderer it’s historian/time traveler if that makes sense
Like instead of the author/serial killer ship
“So hypothetically if I wanted to visit an era where there weren’t gender roles, which era would I want?”
“If you could travel in time, where would you go and why? *takes notes for future dates”
“Guess what I remembered today at work? <insert history fact here>” *cut to time traveler going back in time to see if it’s true*
“Oh fun fact apparently Thomas Edison had a secret affair with someone “with the same name as me”! (Actually them) They said he made great bread”
“What’s the most time consuming thing someone in history has done?” “I don’t know... maybe Da Vinci painting Mona Lisa? I can’t think of anything else right now” *time traveler gets bored and goes to watch it
“I’ll bet you 10 dollars that I can find the answer to any historical question you could possibly have by Tuesday”
“If you could talk to like anyone ever, who would you talk to?”
“The facts say that James Buchanan was gay” “Okay, I’ll go check”
“FYI there’s a 400 year old sword in a well like 20 minutes from here, let’s go get it”
“FYI there were like a grand total of 7 straight people on the face of the earth before like the 1600s but other historians say they were 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 for reasons unbeknownst to me”
“Did you just ...lick ....that?” “WHATEVER WE DIDNT ALWAYS HAVE YOUR NEWFANGLED 𝘖𝘏 𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘛 𝘈 𝘉𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘖𝘙 𝘈 𝘙𝘖𝘊𝘒 TECHNOLOGY”