Hamilton discourse in 2024 🤯🤯🤯
I've realized after careful consideration (I've spent a an hour or so talking to myself and reading different povs on hamilton) that I enjoy hamilton only as a musical. Not as a historical piece of media. Which isn't a nuanced take. I think since I've been in the Fandom I've always separated the characters in hamilton from their real life counterparts, treating them more like ocs than anything. At the time it was because I was a. 9 years old and not thinking critically of media at the time and b. Did not want to put in the effort into researching founding fathers instead opting to watch lams comic dubs. Now I disassociate them because the real people were shit bags, but I still have an attachment to these characters. But i want to separate them from their historical context. And that's probably a bad thing to do because it's still glorifying these people even if there's no association in my head. Not to mention the problems with hamilton outside of glorifying it's (frankly) racist main characters and lmm problems as a writer and person. But I still idolize him and I probably will for several years because the art that he makes really touches me in an indescribable way. It makes me want to create and expand on broadway, and provide actual poc history instead of white history with pocs as the white people. Why is it so hard to highlight real poc stories in mainstream media? Yes, it is wonderful that poc actors are getting work and roles as well written historical characters, but I wish the historical characters were poc as well. It's not like we don't have our own stories to tell. I don't know. I obviously don't know what it's like on broadway or what that process is like, but still.
Tldr; still in the hamilton Fandom, but I hate the actual founding fathers and treat the hamilton characters as their own separate entities. This is probably not good, but I've developed a deep emotional attachment to this show.
