LMAO the cis are at it again. It’s been suggested that the facial model for the statue of liberty was a dude and so now all the news orgs are like “is the statue of liberty actually a man?” Well I for one just want to congratulate Lady Liberty on being the largest trans woman in North America if not the world.
The Rabbinical Assembly, made up of 1,700 rabbis, stated that all those who identify as transgender will be identified with the name, gender and pronoun of their choosing, and those will be used when they are called to recite the Torah and the denomination will implement full recognition and accommodation for transgender people within the religious institution. Three Christian denominations have also spoken out in support of trans rights.
There is a new strong female character with short hair and a sword. She is straight “to break stereotypes.” There are dozens of strong female characters with short hair and swords, and they are all straight “to break stereotypes.” There has never been a strong female character with short hair and a sword who was gay or bisexual at all. All new such characters must be straight “to break stereotypes.”
French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830
Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.
OK I WANT THIS REALLY BAD SO I MADE THIS REALLY QUICK
As much as I absolutely adore this, you’d probably have to come up with a fairly good reason for them to all meet up together in the first place. I mean, MLK and Anne Frank were born in the same year, but they lived on different continents and had no opportunity to meet. I’m not saying these cross cultural interactions are impossible, but choosing a certain region with an era isn’t necessarily exclusionary. It just doesn’t occur to people (or rather most writers in general) how well these eras matched up or how to connect these extremely varied backgrounds.
just make it a fighting game and ur good tho
I didn’t pick those roles at random, mind. All four of them are outlaws of some description, and thus have incentive to travel outside their native range – and in particular, all four of them would have any number of plausible excuses for ending up in San Francisco during the late 1860s or early 1870s. Once you’ve got them within shouting distance of each other, getting them in the same adventuring party is a simple matter of Plot.
I feel dumb for not picking up on that. :B I’d definitely be curious to know just what kind of hijinx they’d be getting themselves into (I can already imagine an Ocean’s Eleven-esque heist).
Out of curiosity, why San Fran? I’m a west coaster myself, but I usually picture New York when it comes to historical fiction.
1. San Francisco in the early 1870s is both very prosperous and a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
2. It’s more plausible for a vaquero and a ronin samurai to meet there by chance – New York is on the wrong coast entirely for that.
Kimchi and Justice 