#historical fandom

[fansplaining]

Some fangirls would spend entire fan-club meetings doing “Beatle-talk” in their approximation of Liverpudlian accents. They would act out scenes from “A Hard Day’s Night,” or even make up their own scenes, assigning each other Beatles personas, which they would stick with in the long-term. (Pity the girl who got Ringo!) ... Pamela des Barres, the groupie famous for her dalliances with real-life rockstars like Mick Jagger and Keith Moon, recounted her experiences with fantasy ones, too—as a teenage Beatles roleplayer. “We were two girls in a constant state of Beatle skits. I played John and myself, and she played Paul and herself. We could switch personalities with the flick of an accent. We [...] professed undying love with semiperfect working-class Liverpudlian accents. At night, we played all four people at the same time, when we would lie entwined in each other’s arms, pressing our four sets of lips together in an eternal expression of Beatle Love.”

@areyougonnabe's latest for Fansplaining digs into modern-day Beatles shippers and fanworks creators—but she also casts back to the fan practices of the 1960s, particularly the act of “Beatle-play.”

Read the article—or listen to an audio version, read by Allegra herself!

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Another small comic based on Kuzmin's diary (my long-time obsession!). This scene's made up, but I wanted to capture that feeling of peeking into someone's private life. He lived in his sister's place in the 1900s, so it was a very "everyone's in each other's business" kind of vibe. Still hoping to introduce more people to this historical figure! 🤧

[hanovermess-tm]

Like this pic and tell me what animation you got!

Merry Christmas 🎄✨️

@rococoejik

@bird-mayhaps

[alboriaposting]

Maybe I've butchered him, but this is in my own artstyle😪

Ft. Queen Victoria.

[ghirahimbo]

♦️ in honor of the sexyman contest finals, this needed to be brought back ♦️

[svollga]

The most frustrating thing in historical fandom in comparison to a fictional one is that in fictional one, there is the text, and the text is the reality of your fandom’s canon, fully available to you and finite. Of course, there are all the things around it - the subtext. the interpretations, the word of God - but in the end, you can take the text, read/watch/play it and know that you know it fully. Meanwhile, in a historical fandom, you have bits and pieces and crumbs, too many and too few of them at the same time, and you can never get to the bottom of this. But even worse, you also know that these bits and pieces are already interpretations, or fragments that you have to interpret because you don’t have the full text; and you know that there is the truth, the reality behind them, the real people and feelings and events, and you can guess all your life at them but you will never know whether your interpretation of the bits and pieces you were given is correct. 

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I should probably talk about the context because the character depicted in this illustration is not the most famous or popular even in his homeland. Outside of Russia, you may have heard of him in connection with the novel "Wings". But Mikhail Kuzmin is an interesting figure as a poet, writer, and representative of the queer culture of the Russian Empire. I think it can be noted that I enjoy studying the history and culture of the LGBTQ+ community of different eras, so this personality has already interested me before. However, I found a great source of inspiration in his diaries, which he kept for a long time and shared his worldview, notes on creativity, contemporaries, life, and his romantic relationships. For this illustration, I used an excerpt from the 1906 entries, which is dedicated to celebrating Easter, but also addresses Kuzmin's spiritual doubts and the conflict of his religiosity with the theme of his orientation. I hope I can shed some light on this unusual topic with my art.