History PlayingWith / AnachronismStew

** Single-celled organisms have colonised other planets.

** In an AlternateHistory timeline, [[Creator/JamesDean James Dean]] is murdered by [[UsefulNotes/FinnsWithFearsomeForests Larry Alan Thorne]].

** The héroes BreakOutTheMuseumPiece.

** [[TimeCrash Time has already broken down.]] [[SchizoTech This results in a sort of patchwork world made up of different places from different time periods, and after a fray and a handful of conflicts, the technology is mutually shared throughout history]] [[PunkPunk with the world's different time periods slowly blending to create new technologies from existing ones throughout history.]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs And people have tamed dinosaurs and kept them as pets!]]

** People use ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' dances in 1405 AD.

** Accurate sources and surviving examples of materials from the age that the story is set in may be incomplete, inaccurate, in short supply or too delicate to be used, meaning that even if the producers do care they still have to do the best with what they have, even if it means extrapolating based on the evidence or using anachronistic.

** [[UpToEleven Single-celled organisms have colonised other planets.]]

%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

** One of the characters is a time traveller who [[GivingRadioToTheRomans brings anachronistic elements with them]] into other time periods.

** The setting has [[TotallyRadical modern language]] used to convey similar connotations but explicitly notes it is a TranslationConvention and any OrphanedEtymology is a side effect of the translationor to avoid 'spoilers' toto those downtime. The FramingDevice notes as an example, GodwinsLaw references explicitly often appear to those from before World War II as [[NephariousPharaoh references to wicked pharaohs]].

* '''Exploited''': [[TheAncientConspiracy The Shadowed Light]] include deliberate anachronisms to what they have preplanned to make any disclosure of their works look like bad forgeries.

** The setting has [[TotallyRadical modern language]] used to convey similar connotations but explicitly notes it is a TranslationConvention and any OrphanedEtymology is either a side effect of the translation. The FramingDevice does not that it avoids giving 'spoilers' to those downtime. GodwinsLaw references explictly generally appears to those from before WorldWarTwo as [[NephariousPharaoh references to wicked pharaohs.]]

** In an AlternateHistory timeline, [[Creator/JamesDean]] is murdered by [[UsefulNotes/FinnsWithFearsomeForests Larry Alan Thorne]].

** The setting has [[TotallyRadical modern language]] used to convey similar connotations but explicitly notes it is a TranslationConvention and [[.

* '''Invoked''': Time travellers leave a few pieces of modern technology lying around specifically to see what happens when you mix a few items of modern technology into an older setting.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': "Time police" ensure that time travellers do not leave anything in the wrong era.

** Bob has a modern revolver which superficially resembles a six shooter and a metal lined fast draw holster. This is {{foreshadowing}} that he is a TimeTraveler.

** New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" plays during a high school graduation in 1997, seeing how the single came out in 1998.

* '''Straight''': People using telephones in 1860 AD.

** People use [[VideoGame/Fortnite ''Fortnite'']] dances in 1405 AD.

** [[VideoGame/AceCombat F-22s are chasing down MiG-21s and vice versa.]]

** The author deliberately obscures the exact time the story takes place in to create a timeless, slightly surreal world that leaves the reader off-balance and resists efforts to [[MeasuringTheMarigolds ground it too heavily in reality]].

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The author wanted to [[WorldBuilding create his own fictional universe]] and didn't care about realism. He just wanted the story to run on RuleOfCool, so he [[SchizoTech mixed and matched whatever he wanted.]]