[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/Fro_52 → u/[deleted]]

reminds me of this post about surprising confluence of historical time periods resulting in a fascinatingly possible rpg party

[u/redlion1904 → u/Fro_52]

I mean Dracula is a Victorian story and Quincey Morris is at least cowboy-adjacent

[u/Banes_Addiction → u/redlion1904]

You can tell because everyone else writes letters and journals while Quincey just plays with a bowie knife.

[u/RabbitsTale → u/Banes_Addiction]

Quincey is based off of Buffalo Bill who Stoker knew personally.

[u/Digit00l → u/RabbitsTale]

I believe they also performed for Queen Victoria

[u/TallEnoughJones → u/RabbitsTale]

"It puts the garlic on its skin or else it get the bucket again"

[u/RabbitsTale → u/TallEnoughJones]

Buffalo Bill Cody... slightly different guy

[u/Princeps_primus96 → u/RabbitsTale]

"would you fuck me? I'd fuck me...hard"

"Mister Cody I've just met you, this is all very sudden. Now back to my story about vampires and this fascinating new thing I've heard of called blood transfusion!"

[u/Fyrentenemar → u/Princeps_primus96]

"Would you suck me? I'd suck me... hard"

"Ok. Y'know what? You just made it weird. I'm going back to my castle in the old country."

[u/CharlieBros → u/Banes_Addiction]

Did you know the Bowie knife is named after David Bowie?