I just had a truly horrible realization. I was talking about the worldbuilding in fma with someone the other day, and they mistakenly said it took place during the Victorian era, or Amestris’s equivilant to it.
I, being a lover of fashion history as well as an insufferable pedant, corrected them by saying that both the year(s) it takes place in as well as many of the technological and cultural influences seen in the world are actually more in line with the subsequent, much shorter era known as the…
the Edwardian era.
God fucking dammit.
of course it’s a much shorter era.
Fun fact: the Edwardian Era is so short that, unless you’re one of those people who extends it 4 years past the reign of the king it’s named after, it’s not even a decade long, making it possibly the shortest historical era in all of British history
