Halperin's Book and fanfiction

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Post I didn't explicitly broach fanfiction in my explication, but it was certainly in my mind as I was reading. Especially as I'm writing Phlint as my go-to m/m these days, who by my timeline Phil joined the Army in 1977 and Clint the circus in 1983.

Has anyone else read this, read things about this?

Comments

[cadenzamuse]

Haven't read this/things about it, but I do find myself wishing if Tumblr weren't imploding that someone was running historically accurate Hawkeye and historically acurate Agent Coulson (maybe someone is?). I think there can be a tendency to not think of anything within one's lifetime as "history" but I am regularly reminded that my SIL who was born in 2002 is nearly an adult, and I think queer history has been particularly...not lost, but disconnected from modern queerness because of losing generations of gay men, as you mention.

Anyway, I thought it was an interesting post? I wouldn't necessarily have thought about the ideas in terms of comedy and tragedy, but certainly I know a lot of queer friends/acquaintances who feel that by mainstreaming we lose, as you say, the counter-genre.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I don't know if anyone took a page from Historically Accurate Steve Rogers for Phil and Clint. But yeah, we are getting to the point that if we don't capture the life lived details of 'late modern' (Anthropology has current day 'set' as 1950. 1950 is a foreign country.) it's going to be the Victorian condiment set all over again. It's much easier to get at things when ones at the overlap "Oh, this isn't the way we do it now, but yes, I've seen this. Let me get Soandso, they know this sort of thing."