2022-11-16 7:27:47 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

lachrymosade:

> it’s probably the sleep deprivation but i am Obsessed with the worldbuilding implications of palamedes sextus thinking nurses are sexy. “those little outfits nurses wear” is vague enough that it could mean anything. it was almost certainly a throwaway joke but like.

> in the 10,000 years, both fashion and medical PPE should have changed/improved pretty significantly, and the specific 21st century image of a Sexy Nurse would logically be either lost to the denizens of the nine houses completely or not considered sexy anymore, even as (artificially?) stagnated as their culture seems to be.

> some possibilities:

> - the red cross hat, (un)buttoned white coat, and (optional) giant hypodermic needle have indeed been lost to time, but a new iconic Sexy Nurse image evolved and that’s what palamedes is referencing. the nature of humanity is that every so often someone reinvents the Sexy Nurse.
> - pal’s just really into the year-ten-thousand-whatever equivalent to hospital scrubs. there’s a Space Necromancy Gray’s Anatomy holo show and he has seen every single episode.
> - somewhere in the depths of the sixth house archive lies an unopened and perfectly preserved “naughty nurse” costume from spirit halloween, which a young palamedes sextus stumbled upon by mistake and was forever changed by while he was researching Ye Olde Cancer Treatments.
> - the Sexy Nurse exactly as we know it in the 21st century has in fact survived for 10,000 years because His Divine Eminence Emperor John Gaius has a nurse kink and takes great pains to ensure that it never leaves the social consciousness. it was just never mentioned in canon because it wasn’t relevant to harry’s story.