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  1. Obviously it’s #hollywood to blame, but…

    #supernatural (the TV series) - some evil monsters pull another evil monster out of a place it’s been trapped for at least 7 centuries, and it comes out speaking with a modern US English accent??

    Just, nope. Nopety nope. Make an effort, writers/directors. Like Sleepy Hollow did?

    I know, target audience issue, but it’s just jarring… 😂
    #tv #tvshows #anachronism

  2. My Wales-centric old-school "anachronistic analogue" Freeview TV guide is back online!

    jamienemeth.co.uk/tvguide/

    Bear in mind that my Raspberry Pi server isn't mission-critical internet-backbone hardware, but a free-time hobby project...so it's taken me a few days to restore it...and there may be dropouts...

    #Wales #Freeview #TV #TVGuide #Newspaper #Retro #Nostalgia #OldSchool #Anachronism

  3. A village church I walked past today in the Douro Valley. I feel like the local historical society missed a trick here #Anachronism

  4. One member of the band can NOT be separated from her phone haha 🤣
    #livemusic #anachronism

  5. A bloke in a tesla just drove past, breathing out clouds of vape smoke
    #anachronism or just symbolic 🤔

  6. #anachronism

    a·nach·ro·nism (ə-năk′rə-nĭz′əm)
    n.

    1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
    2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).

    thefreedictionary.com/anachron

    #essential #writers #concepts #vocabulary

  7. <showing old glamour-era Hollywood photos (1920s-30s) to younger person>

    Them: Wow, she has perfect skin!
    Me: Well, probably not. These were all touched up.
    Them: Huh. I didn't know they had Photoshop back then.

    Me: <headdesk>

    #headdesk #glamour #photo #photoshop #airbrush #anachronism

  8. Me, watching Lord of the Rings this bank holiday and glitching when Sam talks about eating a potato (brought to Europe in 1589).

    #lordoftherings #anachronism #lotr #dinosaurs #memes #historical #potato #tolkien #jrtolkien #movies

  9. Shadiversity be all like "And well-lit alcoves in Gothic castles were where the mediæval knights placed their typewriters in, you know, for writing all those Gothic horror novels such as Acts of the Apostles."

    #anachronism