If it's a passing mention of something that's wrong, I can let it go. If the whole story is built on a faulty premise, then I can't read the story.
I think people have different tolerance levels, though. I remember using this example at a panel once and getting a variety of responses: there's an AU Sentinel fic which had Blair Sandburg attending Oxford in the 19th century. The only problem being that since he's (even nominally) Jewish, he wouldn't have been able to do that - students at Oxford and Cambridge had to swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch as head of the Church of England, which of course Jews and Catholics wouldn't have been able to do...
Now I'm trying to find stuff in an almost non-existant fandom, so just to have *something* to read, I'm slogging through some truly horrific stuff.
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Date: 2005-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)I think people have different tolerance levels, though. I remember using this example at a panel once and getting a variety of responses: there's an AU Sentinel fic which had Blair Sandburg attending Oxford in the 19th century. The only problem being that since he's (even nominally) Jewish, he wouldn't have been able to do that - students at Oxford and Cambridge had to swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch as head of the Church of England, which of course Jews and Catholics wouldn't have been able to do...
Now I'm trying to find stuff in an almost non-existant fandom, so just to have *something* to read, I'm slogging through some truly horrific stuff.
So it's worth the pain to get something? ;)