Comments | attack_laurel: I think I'll keep my sofa, thanks.

attack_laurel

I think I'll keep my sofa, thanks.

Feb 02, 2009 08:01

I had a very odd day yesterday - I felt massively disassociated from everything, and completely without motivation. I always feel guilty if I'm not working on something creative, so I knitted a custom purse, and started on a silk/alpaca knitted reticule for my purple Victorian outfit (little tiny needles!), but I didn't feel particularly absorbed ( Read more... )

living in the past, research, a&s50(stash), sca

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lifeofglamour February 2 2009, 14:23:46 UTC

Go back in time? Are they joking? I've got just two words for people who want that: Modern medicine.
I'll stick with the traffic and cell phones and advertising and soulless corporate job, and be thankful for them, just so I can keep modern painkillers, antibiotics and surgical techniques.

Leisure time is good too. :-)

gargoyal3 February 2 2009, 18:34:10 UTC

and dentistry :)

mincot February 12 2009, 23:40:18 UTC

THANK YOU. I'm a medieval historian, and *I* have no wish to live in either the early modern period or the Middle Ages.

And please do not get me started on people's misuses of the past The middle Ages were neither a golden age that acts as a foil for the percieved abuses of "modernity" (though it must be said that first-century Greeks opined that the "modern generation" had no manners or learning), nor were they *so* terrible as to make any and all modern problems seem trivial. They were not where one could find the "pure ethnicity" of one's percieved nationality, either.

lorebubeck February 2 2009, 14:26:28 UTC

AMEN SISTER!

I like sanitary conditions and my temperature controlled house!

rikibeth February 2 2009, 14:30:30 UTC

I adore watching the "1900 House" series and the others that followed it because I *know* I don't want to leave my lovely, comfortable 21st century for more than a few hours!

Now, if I had a TARDIS for SHOPPING expeditions, that'd be something entirely different.

kittyblue February 3 2009, 05:56:37 UTC

I just want the TARDIS.

... For aesthetic purposes.

..... On the front lawn. ^_^ (My mum would kill me.)

rikibeth February 3 2009, 14:26:32 UTC

Right, once I elope with Ten, I'll convince him to park it there?

ziactrice February 2 2009, 14:33:19 UTC

Heck, not only modern medicine - how about SEWERS? Can you just *imagine* how ferociously London stank ( ... )

dragonlady7 February 2 2009, 14:49:08 UTC

I like the idea of living like that for short periods of time, sure. I'd love to have the time to do more living history events than I do. But even that-- I'm not quite 30, in excellent physical condition, and require no medication on a regular basis. But I have terrible eyesight and have had my life saved by modern medical intervention in the past, so I entertain no delusions that I'd really want to live like that with no alternative. If nothing else, I am so thoroughly shaped in my cognitive processes by living in a literate age that I can't even keep my thoughts straight without writing them down, let alone remember things people tell me without writing them down, so there are very few ways of life I'd be suited to-- even as a waitress I had to write every order down lest I forget it. Which would hardly go over well in pretty much any pre-modern period, paper being so expensive.