Aww, thank you! I agree, doing a middle-aged Tom/Ed has been on the bucket
list for a while. It's just—what does it mean to have already been through
the portal fantasy, for that experience to have become part of the
background texture of one's life?
Let me know what you think if you read either of the Raffles fics! And yes
so much agreement on the inhibition/repression. This has come up for me a
lot: I just don't enjoy stories which remove those facets of historical
experience, this is what I am seeking out by reading historical
smut/romance more generally. It's understandable and reasonable if people
are looking for different things out of the same settings, eras, or canons.
But yeah no I'm always hunting for the work which doesn't shy away from
depicting relatively accurate attitudes towards sexuality, hence the use of
funny proxies like "fagging." I figure that someone confident enough to tag
their work with that isn't going to deliver modern-feeling romance!
(Also yes forever to the period clothing. Just: yes. Love all of it.)
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Date: 2023-05-12 04:25 pm (UTC)Aww, thank you! I agree, doing a middle-aged Tom/Ed has been on the bucket list for a while. It's just—what does it mean to have already been through the portal fantasy, for that experience to have become part of the background texture of one's life?
Let me know what you think if you read either of the Raffles fics! And yes so much agreement on the inhibition/repression. This has come up for me a lot: I just don't enjoy stories which remove those facets of historical experience, this is what I am seeking out by reading historical smut/romance more generally. It's understandable and reasonable if people are looking for different things out of the same settings, eras, or canons. But yeah no I'm always hunting for the work which doesn't shy away from depicting relatively accurate attitudes towards sexuality, hence the use of funny proxies like "fagging." I figure that someone confident enough to tag their work with that isn't going to deliver modern-feeling romance!
(Also yes forever to the period clothing. Just: yes. Love all of it.)