Fic Writing, or rather 'oh hell, do I need to put some sort of warning on this?'

[redfiona99]

So I'm writing Rome fic. Octavian-centric Rome fic. Which means there's already some issues, in re: his sister. And him. Anyway, stuff happens, and there's a section about slaves. And it's Rome fic. And tight 3rd Person on Octavian so the story at no point says anything about this being very wrong. Which, okay, people who are reading Rome fic know what they're getting into, the TV show did that too for effect.

Only then Octavian goes and plans the getting of a wife, and we hit Roman issues re: women's right. And before that, Roman issues re: men who have sex with men. And like I said, I think anyone who watch Rome would know all this but ...

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

"Historical attitudes to [homosexuality, women, slavery]" usually covers it, I think.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I knew there'd probably be a "proper", or at least generally understood, warning but I had no idea what it could be.