Royals, you know

"She could not have been Anastasia Romanova because she wasn't even Russian."

Yeah, uh... Anastasia? Wasn't very Russian either. Her mother? German. Paternal grandmother? Danish. Paternal great-grandmother? German. Paternal great-great-grandmother? Prussian (AKA German).

It was actually a joke in the Russian Empire at the time that they were being ruled by fukken Germans.

Protect your straights! We might corrupt them!

If you write a book portraying a historical figure, like, oh, Leonardo da Vinci, as a vampire or robot or alien, no one will bat an eye.

But write a book in which Leonardo falls in love with another man and you'll wake up with an angry mob outside your house.

I have made a huge mistake!

I innocently walked into a huge debate full of people applying modern ideas of race onto historical peoples.

The "middle name" field on my legal documents is blank

You know what I hate? Explaining to people born and raised in the US that the rest of the world doesn't operate the same way.

No, Karen, I don't have a middle name, my culture doesn't do middle names. I have a patronymic, but if you try to use it I will break into your house and cover the floor with Legos.