You know what I’m still mad about?
The amount of people who got all up in arms and aggressive and shit about people RPing or writing fanfic about Hamilton the musical.
Like, I guarantee you that the VAST MAJORITY of people were not under the impression that they were in any way writing about the ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES, they were writing about the FICTIONALIZED VERSIONS of those figures as they were presented in the musical. Like, did that sometimes lead to an interest in the ACTUAL historical figure? Yes, obviously. Did people sometimes draw from the historical figure’s known story to flesh out the fictionalized version? Sure, why not?
But these people were WELL FUCKING AWARE that they were writing about FICTIONAL VERSIONS of historical characters. Like, they were writing a slightly less fantastical version of Leonardo da Vinci from Assassin’s Creed. Sure, it’s closer to historical truth, but it’s still fictionalized for the sake of telling a story. THAT IS OKAY. AND IT IS OKAY TO TREAT IT AS A FANDOM.
I’m still angry about people trying to refuse to acknowledge the fictionalization of the characters when it comes to the fandom interaction with the story. “Oh they like Jefferson the fictional character, they must stan Jefferson the ACTUAL HISTORICAL PERSON” like, no??? let people engage in fictional shit for fuck’s sake!