what's it like to be neck deep in a fandom of a 17-year old war show that is a faithful adaptation of a book composed of real events and real people—
sunday afternoon: making a post of excerpts from a 20-year old non-fiction book written by a former member of the U.S. military, when neither had been a particular interest to you in the past also, staring for hours at a browser with: tumblr tabs of fan art and rants on the show, wikipedia tabs of the individuals and events the show depicts, youtube tabs of interviews by said individuals from various periods in varying forums, AO3 tabs of fan fic works that range between 2k and 98k word count, some with the tag 'canon typical war crimes', and one tab for the U.S. foreign relations committee report on the battle of tora bora in 2001