#thousands wounded

[calandrinon]

casually romaniamogging everyone at folk group until my accent slips and i find myself in republica mogdova

[darlingofdots]

so obviously I am thinking about a Temeraire/Bridgerton crossover, because that's who I am as a person, and I know exactly how I would do it, but it does involve Considering the Implications (the best part of worldbuilding) and it really brings out the fundamental differences between the two worlds. For instance, while Bridgerton at first glance looks like there just isn't any racism in this universe, the backstory makes it clear that there used to be and they just got rid of it within living memory. The show itself makes no attempt to elaborate on that (which I'm okay with; I would have gone about it differently but it's fine) but if you're even a little aware of world history at this time all the holes become really evident. What about slavery? What about the colonisation of India and the impending Opium Wars? What is the role of Empire in this alternative timeline?

Meanwhile the world of Temeraire is explicitly depicted as racist but is much more deliberately grappling with this fact. There are conversations about abolition and the horrors of the slave trade that significantly impact the plot and the British Empire's role in geopolitical conflict is both made clear and explicitly critiqued, and the characters' arcs involve deconstructing their own biases and choosing to dismantle the system and pursue justice.

This discrepancy makes it kind of difficult to reconcile the two texts with each other without breaking fundamental genre conventions or doing grave injustice to the characters and their arcs. It's a really interesting puzzle I am rotating in my head instead of going to sleep like I should

[randomweas]

Beirut Blast: On Camera