bloody bunnies
Jan. 23rd, 2004 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperI keep getting attacked by bunnies. Time travelling bunnies that want me to put a girl from nowadays into the Roman Empire, in Rome. Except the locals keep running a commentary....
'Ere, you know the new girl? She's not local.'
'Yeah. Looks are all wrong. Sort of half-celt, half-(whatever they call the area the saxons and angles came from in Roman times). All barbarian, anyway. She's bloody tall. Broad shoulders, too. Some sort of amazon, I'd say.'
'Seen her skin? And her teeth're too good to be true. They're white. Straight. None missing.'
'Too fucking clean, is what I say. And far too educated for a barbarian.'
'Sounds like a philosopher. Still a complete barbarian.'
Something they never think about, in those kind of novels. We'd stand out a mile because of our height (yes, even the short ones of our time would be at least medium height), build (ever tried to sit in a medieval chair? My hips are too broad to do that, and that's if you stripped me down to skeleton alone). Our skin's too good, and our teeth certainly are. And that's before we open our mouths... Ever considered the sheer amount of theoretical maths and physics and biology the average schoolchild absorbs? Compared to what the average person a few centuries ago knew, we're advanced scientists. Not to mention the actual looks. Most English folk have such mixed blood that we look very little like the original settlers of Britain, at least not how they looked back in Roman times.
'Ere, you know the new girl? She's not local.'
'Yeah. Looks are all wrong. Sort of half-celt, half-(whatever they call the area the saxons and angles came from in Roman times). All barbarian, anyway. She's bloody tall. Broad shoulders, too. Some sort of amazon, I'd say.'
'Seen her skin? And her teeth're too good to be true. They're white. Straight. None missing.'
'Too fucking clean, is what I say. And far too educated for a barbarian.'
'Sounds like a philosopher. Still a complete barbarian.'
Something they never think about, in those kind of novels. We'd stand out a mile because of our height (yes, even the short ones of our time would be at least medium height), build (ever tried to sit in a medieval chair? My hips are too broad to do that, and that's if you stripped me down to skeleton alone). Our skin's too good, and our teeth certainly are. And that's before we open our mouths... Ever considered the sheer amount of theoretical maths and physics and biology the average schoolchild absorbs? Compared to what the average person a few centuries ago knew, we're advanced scientists. Not to mention the actual looks. Most English folk have such mixed blood that we look very little like the original settlers of Britain, at least not how they looked back in Roman times.
