Why Do Your Job When You Could Joke About It - Tumblr Posts

There's this trend of works that start off by establishing that they're set in 2019 so they don't have to figure out how COVID would impact the plot, and movies set in the recent past so they can write around including cell phones, and that seems uniquely modern, but then you watch a silent movie from the 1920s where a soldier character very pointedly notes that the story takes place in 1911 so you don't have to think about WWI and you realize writers wanting to avoid recent events is eternal