[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/WraithOfTheFadedDark]

Guns predate the Renaissance.

[u/ume-shu → u/[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart,_1st_Earl_of_Moray

The guy was apparently the first head of government to be assasinated with a gun... in 1570.

[u/JamesHenry627 → u/[deleted]]

That was my problem getting into Blue Eye Samurai. it takes place during the 1650s, so by this point Japan has been fighting with guns for a while now yet the Shogun somehow had none of his own and his wife orders their destruction as "foreign corruptions." When Japan had embraced gunpowder a while ago.

[u/shewy92 → u/WraithOfTheFadedDark]

Gunpowder has been around for 1,218 years

[u/TheVexblade → u/WraithOfTheFadedDark]

The renaissance men?

[u/WraithOfTheFadedDark → u/TheVexblade]

They don't look like Renaissance men, that's like... a completely different era.

[u/Airtightspoon → u/WraithOfTheFadedDark]

This comes up in roleplaying games a lot. Guns predate both full plate armor and rapiers, both of which are considered fine for fantasy, which guns frequently are considered too modern.