Subject: Ah, this sounds like a very good idea...
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Posted on: 2008-08-12 00:04:00 UTC
My agent is in what often seems like the ultimate history-muck-up fandom around, so I'll stick her in. Eni'll work Ancient Chinese history (and anything else I know something about) if needed.
The Chronological Restoration Department, which handles historical fiction, decided to come into existence in a For Better or For Worse fic I'm writing. Agent Laurel is working Early American and English history. Anyone else care to sign on? Doesn't have to be full-time.
Is there any way this differs from the Historical Innacuracies Division of the Department of the Department of Technical Offences?
hS
My bad. Didn't realize there was already one in existence. Carry on, then.
My agent is in what often seems like the ultimate history-muck-up fandom around, so I'll stick her in. Eni'll work Ancient Chinese history (and anything else I know something about) if needed.
Now to find people to cover the rest of the world
I've handled a few fanfics that mucked up history. But is this department specifically for fandoms that have a historical setting or does it go everywhere?
Agent Allison might be interested. Her knowledge of history is anekdotal and mainly covers 19th and early 20th century West-European and (some) American history.
If someone had Henry VIII, for example, regretting divorcing Catherine of Aragon, the CRD would get involved.
characters being transported to the time of the Newsboy strike and then treat the events as depicted in the film Newsies as the way things really happened?
That one might be tricky enough: it's for a fandom that essentially has the function of the CRD: if history goes wrong they set it right (which explains my gripe with treating a work of fiction as the right set of events).
Other question: where would minor chronogical hickups fall under? Hickups as someone mentioning being run over by a car (with combustion engine) in 1775, or a historical figure mentioned as being (yet not shown) to be in location A, while in reality he was in location B. Is that CRD worthy, or are those case this handled by the regular DMS of Floater agents?
hS pointed that out to me so...yeah.
A motor car in 1775? That's not minor. Depending on where Characters being one place instead of another...depends on how it'll affect history. If they're writing a 'what if' or acknowledge it's an alternate version, then they're covered.