I would LOVE such a discussion. Man, I miss good meaty fanfic meta that doesn't just end in 300 tumblr reblogs. Discussion would be nice.
RPF is interesting in that people definitely separate out historical RPF (which is...everything written about historical figures, really) from live-people RPF. And, well, there are people who get way to far off the deep end in RPF, lots of them in fandom. But in order to shove the real complexities of an actual human being into the limits of a fictional work, you lose something of the real person. Which is fine, so long as we keep that critical discussion going. <3
I do think a lot of the fans are getting really passionate about the actualfax historical dude as well, not just the LMM version. And like, he was a pretty good dude for his time! He deserves to be more remembered than Jefferson! But, bigger picture here!
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RPF is interesting in that people definitely separate out historical RPF (which is...everything written about historical figures, really) from live-people RPF. And, well, there are people who get way to far off the deep end in RPF, lots of them in fandom. But in order to shove the real complexities of an actual human being into the limits of a fictional work, you lose something of the real person. Which is fine, so long as we keep that critical discussion going. <3
I do think a lot of the fans are getting really passionate about the actualfax historical dude as well, not just the LMM version. And like, he was a pretty good dude for his time! He deserves to be more remembered than Jefferson! But, bigger picture here!