reject the melancholy cabbage

brsis:

the preamble, or, let’s get some shit straight before we start

the formal regency period is 1811-1820, but i’m boosting this out to the ‘popular’ span of time between high rococo and the georgian era and the start of victorian era sensibilities, so - 1795 - 1830 or thereabouts (victoria doesn’t take the throne until 1837 but the transition, from a fashion point of view, starts creeping in from about 1825 so run with me here) because the generalisations that can be made of the 1811-1820 period can also be made of the 1795-1830 period

i am also limiting myself to england and france, because let’s face it so does every other historian - admittedly for good reasons as from 1600 to 1955 or thereabouts england and france were the centre of the world for the western fashion industry - and mostly women, although i’ll try and chip in whenever i have some info on men

caveat; this is drawn from my own knowledge and what books i have available to me - i may have some bits wrong or not quite spot on, and some bits eg. time frames are educated guesstimates. but for the sake of fiction it should do the job

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Wow, this is incredibly fascinating *_* I’m just sorry you didn’t go into Spitalfields because I know absolutely nothing about it. Riots??

Anonymous asked: WELL as a mandarin speaker i have to disagree with you on how much more non-european you can get ahahhha but um. yeah, tortallverse, not the gr8est worldbuilding! and white fans, not the gr8est, uh, not the greatest at refraining from whitewashing characters

LMAO, good call. And yeah! I mean. I’m a white fan. I throw no stones. But when it’s pretty easy to find out what fake ethnicity someone is supposed to fake be, put in the dang effort, friend.

Anonymous asked: also what the fuck, i come back to read your blog and it's lutecest everywhere. hdu give me feelz at work :P

I regret nothing. :D

Anonymous asked: thayet is multiracial, "fantasy central asian" as you say on her mom's side. not white. she *is* described as pale-skinned but also having features that are distinctly marked as nonwhite by tortallan observers. i am sure there are pale-skinned multiracial actors out there who would fit the bill!

Well, and also, her dad’s side is also… Central Asian… conquerors? Unless I’m missing something? Like, it’s repeatedly stressed in the books that her mom is the one who’s K’miri, but her dad is Saren, and Adigun jin Wilima and Dusan zhir Anduo are as distinctively non-European names as you could look for. Squinting at the map and thinking about her [questionable] worldbuilding in Sarain, it’s probably supposed to be more Afghani or Kazakh than Thai/Burmese like the K’miri names are, so it’s not impossible her dad looks totally “white”, but my point is basically, you can be multiracial without either of those races being suitable for casting with an Irish actress.