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There is a satirical (paper) RPG called "Diana: Warrior Princess" that takes its inspiration from this idea. The idea is it is a representation of the idea of 20th century culture as viewed from a millennium into the future, focusing on Princess Di who is depicted as a great leader who fights against Hitler and has advisors like Charles Darwin. It's mocking how "historical fiction" often takes great liberties with fact and mixes people who never lived at the same time together.



Upon seeing "Warrior Princess" I had first been expecting they'd given DFS an ambiguous (sororal or sapphistical?) companion:

  In short, when I can tell you how I break the laws of gravity,
  And why my togs expose my intermammary concavity,
  And why my comrade changed her dress from one that fit more comfily
  To one that shows her omphalos (as cute as that of Omphale),
  And why the tale of Spartacus appears in Homer's version,
  And where we found examples of the genus Lycopersicon,
  And why this Grecian scenery looks more like the Antipodes,
  You'll say I'm twice the heroine of any in Euripides!
[full text, footnoted: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~valkyrie/parody/xena.html ]


I am reminded of the Perry Bible Fellowship strip "Now Showing".

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/




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