What's the opposite of contemporary?

What's the opposite of contemporary?

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Archaic?

Medieval.

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At Danbooru, this tag should be used for fashion pertaining to this era, such as Knight's armor, gowns with long sleeves, corsets, laced sandals, boots, and even cloaks.

neither of those would give the sense that a character is outside their normal era (comtemporary explicitly states that it is for characters normally not seen in a contemporary context. Maybe an alternative era tag would be better. It would imply any modern-era character depicted as being either in a historical or future context.

what about fantasy?

Traditional clothes might be something else you'd want to consider in similar situations. For these two specifically though I don't think any such tag is necessary and just armor is fine. Maybe you'd throw fantasy on there too.

period dress seems appropriate for cases like post #378196

Hang on, is contemporary meant to be used for clothes only? I thought it was for scenery as well, like post #1057597 uses it.

Kikimaru said:
Medieval.

What if it's a past era but not the medieval era? Like cave-man, Arabian nights, or feudal Japan settings.

Well, I thought that contemporary should be use in normal situation, (eg. normal clothes, normal places).

Maybe we should have like Feudalism tag just for those situations like medieval, feudal japan.

Prehistoric tag for ages like stone, copper and bronze age.

Renaissance for renaissance age.

Industrial for age of steam-powered engine and coal to pre-world war 1 situations.

Seems like the goal is a single catch-all tag to indicate deviation from expectations, rather than having a list of more specific eras to tag (though you'd want to add that too). I don't have any suggestions though.

Like anachronism?

RaisingK said:
Like anachronism?

I think of anachronism as being used for series that ostensibly take place in a specific historical time period (even though it could be alternate history, like Strike Witches), when the image includes elements from outside that time period. It doesn't really apply to fantasy settings like contemporary tends to do, I'd think.

The fine art opposite of 'contemporary' used by interior decorators,musicians and artists would be traditional.

Not sure how well that would integrate with Danbooru standards,since there is currently no such tag.

Kikimaru's definition sounds official

Kikimaru's definition is for another tag.

I question how useful this would really be, though. While contemporary is nice because it pertains all other eras to one specific style, traditional would branch over a lot of other eras that could be tagged more effectively with existing tags, like medieval, fantasy, or even japanese clothes. People usually have something more particular in mind when thinking "traditional."

How about traditional as an umbrella-tag,and medieval,fantasy,japanese clothes and the like be used as a quasi-specific tag?

Not even sure if there's a need for a tag like that,other than general theme sorting

Before we do anything I want to ask, this new tag would only apply when it's out of the ordinary, right?

So characters from an anime set in feudal Japan won't normally get the tag, but what if they're in the afore-mentioned Arabian nights setting?

I like alternate_era. It's simple to remember, matches the other alternate_* tags, and makes it clear that the tag is for characters not normally seen in that context.

contemporary could implicate it, and non-contemporary images could be found with alternate_era -contemporary.

alegria said:
I like alternate_era. It's simple to remember, matches the other alternate_* tags, and makes it clear that the tag is for characters not normally seen in that context.

contemporary could implicate it, and non-contemporary images could be found with alternate_era -contemporary.

If nobody objects to this, I say this works very well. If anything, maybe era could be replaced by something else, but I'm not sure I have anything better.

I support alternate_era.

I also support alternate_era as an umbrella tag.

jxh2154 said:

[M]aybe era could be replaced by something else, but I'm not sure I have anything better.

An obvious choice would be alternate_time_period, but I am afraid the brevity of era makes it unbeatable.

alegria said:

contemporary could implicate it, and non-contemporary images could be found with alternate_era -contemporary.

Sounds quite acceptable.

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I oppose the use of fantasy in the vague meaning 'fictional sword and sorcery era fashion'. The word fantasy can refer to so much more. I do not mind if there is a broad consensus supporting that use and a clear wiki article is created to sum it up, though.

EB said:

I think of anachronism as being used for series that ostensibly take place in a specific historical time period (...), when the image includes elements from outside that time period.

That, and should also refer to blatantly anachronistic cases, such as cavemen wearing neckties, in original works.