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Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
na

idk, I thought they were mostly portrayed as varying degrees of low-key to high-key dicks, but none of them seemed like they were stellar people to me. They were tidied up a little bit for narrative purposes, but there's still a fair amount of subtext implying that they're assholes. I'm also fine with pretty liberal historical fiction, though, so ymmv.

Are you maybe objecting to the way that a certain subset of people in the fandom seem to be under the impression that it's a perfectly accurate representation of historical events? Because if so that's a pet peeve I can get behind.

I can't think of any non-wanky way to say this because I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but saying you're too "academically minded" for something sounds condescending as hell. Like I said, I'm sure that's not what you're going for! But it kind of seems like you're implying that people who enjoyed it aren't academically inclined.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
da

Maybe I was being too forgiving, but I took too "academically minded" as too analytical.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
da

That doesn't make it better. There's plenty to be analytical about in Hamilton (I haven't even seen the musical, but it's very existence is fodder for analysis), and in general in fictionalized retellings of things. Isn't that the very case people have been trying to make about the ~importance of fanfic??

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

But not being able to turn your fact-checker brain off isn't a feature in all circumstances, which is what I thought they were saying, not "the rest of you are so dumb you're actually getting into the narrative storytelling like sheeple."

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

Ah, that makes sense. I get pulled out of fic for minor details that I know objectively don't matter at all, so I get it. That's just not really at all what I thought of when you said "analytical."

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

I meant it as me, personally. I'm a history person who drives other people nuts when watching historical movies set in an era I have a specific interest in because I sit there and point out the inaccuracies. I know fellow history people who love it, including a former professor of mine who really knows his shit when it comes to the American Revolution. It still bugs me for some reason.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
So by "academically minded" what you really meant was "nitpicky." Gotcha.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
Sure, if that's how you want to interpret what I said.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
If you're that detail-oriented then consider using words that convey the meaning you're trying to express? For instance, "I'm the kind of person who really gets thrown out of a story by historical inaccuracies, so I didn't enjoy Hamilton very much."

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
Other people's verbal precision is never what meme thinks it should be. They already clarified. We can move on.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

It's also almost two thirty in the freaking morning where I'm at and I'm tired. And I wasn't talking about the musical itself, but the fandom and why it bothers me. Which are two different things.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

Sorry, man, it's also late where I am and I phrased that assholeishly. Truce? I'd propose some other topic that we might agree on, but that's surprisingly hard to do on this meme. Roman Josi is good-looking? Wayne Gretzky was objectively a pretty good hockey player? Don Cherry is 85 dicks crammed into a loud suit and Mike Milbury is 85 dicks crammed into a boring suit? Surely there must be something all of meme is on board with.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
DA

But how many dicks is Jeremy Roenick?

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

I'd say a slightly smaller number, but still way more dicks than anyone really wants to see in any given situation. Like 75 dicks.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
da

Pierre should shut up? That one's pretty universal.

Also, cilantro belongs on everything. /Wants to watch the world burn

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
Nooo, for people who don't like it, it's not just a matter of subjective taste, it's literally a genetically inherited trait, it tastes like soap to us! Don't hate!!

(In case it's not clear, I'm talking about cilantro and not Pierre.)

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
We've had cilantro play-fights before on meme! That's why I brought it up!

(It tastes like soap to me, but like delicious soap.)

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
Or it smells like soap, but doesn't taste like it. /weird nonny

Re: Fandom Venting

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Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
Huh, I know someone who's the opposite-- it doesn't taste like soap to her, she just doesn't like the flavor.

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Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
I hate cilantro because it's really pungent. (Not one of the people who think it's soap-like.)

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
Same here.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
I kind of like Pierre. I still want him to shut up half the time, but I find him bizarrely endearing.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

** pinches bridge of nose **

Let's just focus on the times you want him to shut up. We're in agreement during those times. God, nonnie.

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
YOU'RE TEARING THIS FAMILY APART, NONNIE

(but not really, I too find him kind of endearing while also wanting him to shut up a lot of the time, they're not mutually exclusive feelings for me. In my perfect world he would still have a prominent job in the hockey world, it would just be one that didn't involve interviewing real live human beings.)

Re: Fandom Venting

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

You won me over with the idea of a truce when you reminded me how good looking Roman Josi is, because damn son.