regshoe

WN is fun and way ahead of its time... i think... in that respect of slashiness. Or perhaps we're behind its time, who knows. It was written in the Roaring Twenties, after all. I'm crossing my fingers for the fic, anyway!

That ignorable non-issue is a good way to approach the whole issue afaic. I don't like seeing canon women being kept on as baby machines in any case, we have enough of that irl. "Write what you like" is a good maxim, whether it's a non-canon pairing, a canon pairing, whatever, but tying oneself into knots to include everyone by the fleeting standards of the 3rd decade of the 21st century is too much like hard work for this tired-out scribbler.

As for the ellipses, yes indeed. I think it was partly a convention of the times? Can't give other examples off the top of my head, but that's the impression I get. The one that always makes me giggle is the number of characters saying things through their teeth! This is difficult, especially under deep emotion, but they're all at it. It's like Sutcliff and "It is in my mind that" - after a while I start thinking about making up drinking games.