Time Warp

[fictional]

Time Warp Wives.

What do you lot think of this? I am at a loss. I never know what to make of these people. On the one hand, I admire their dedication to detail. For another, I am really into vanished worlds as well. (Hello, cosplay! Dressing up is awesome. Recreating lost worlds, equally so.) In addition, it's nice to live in a time, where people can be this weird, and not get, y'know, stoned to death or whatever. I support people's constructed, fictional lives, no matter what fashion, as long as they're not hurting anyone, - and it's great that they've been able to find people of like mind to live with etc.

BUT. They are crazy. tin. hats. Like, I get the desire, but not the 24/7 of it all, you know. Obsession can be taken too far.

Here's the other thing. It's like the male-dom thing in bdsm. Like, I've been known to find it really hot. BUT. in sex! Not in real life, right? Politically I find it to be repugnant and stupid. (Femme-dom too, for that matter, but you know what I mean.) For me, the great thing about recreation of these vanished times, means that we can keep the things we like for play, and lose the things we don't. Also I like running water, the internet, eyeglasses & contact lenses, etc etc.

I just don't know.

Thoughts?

Comments

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

You're totally right, it's off how none of the guys have a word to say for themselves. And what if these blokes get laid off or go on disability, are they still going to be glad for a wife who doesn't know how to pump her own gas?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

You know, I sometimes get the same feeling from regency stuff, i.e. how is it possible that one thing can spawn such degress of heteronormativity, while at the same time, being such a logical home for queerness.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nodsnods* Some of that I think is that the Regency aesthetic of (presumed) heterosexual maleness included things which now read as queer. Plus it is all so performative now, functionally *everyone* is in drag, and I got into it through such a queer-inclusive social context...