No, Game of Thrones didn’t take place in Medieval times lmao. Dragons and wizards didn’t exist in ye olde England.

It would be funny if people did this with more recent time periods and fiction. Like people genuinely thinking that victorian times had giant steampunk spider robots.

I will say it is a little concerning how often I hear people say shit unchallenged like “It takes place in the old days” about something that is a fantasy world that never actually existed. Makes me worried people can’t tell fantasy from reality.

Edit: This petty rant is because I was talking about GoT with a friend and told them that the constant sexual assault put me off watching it and they were like “Yeah, but that’s what it was like back then.”

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    if they thought about it at all, they probably decided the jarls collect rent in cash, like land lords did in the 1800s (or today, for that matter) from their tenant farmers.

    a cash based economy in medieval times? lol

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