If plague doctors hadn’t been a real thing, and you made them up for a speculative history/fantasy story, people would complain that they’re implausibly advanced and way too cool.
Like you’re like “yeah there’s this super lethal illness and nobody actually knows how it spreads so just to be safe they’ve got these sick gothy fucking hazmat suits. No Greg shut up they totally had all the materials to make them, you can make fabric splatter-resistant by waxing and oiling it. And the mask is because of the- guys shut up, let me finish. The mask is- there’s scented- guys shut up. They didn’t have germ theory but they figured it has something to do with the air smelling- No shut up, you’re a fucking furry. The beak makes it cool. Jerks.”
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#history #clothing #illness tw #discourse cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 