November 2020 - Day 29

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I find it harder and harder to figure out exactly where I start having issues, because I do often enjoy the kind of historical fiction which brings in real characters, and possibly tries to join the dots of historical problems, and I've read odd bits of things which are called historical RPF which are written in the same spirit and are basically unpublished historical fiction - so where exactly is the boundary?

And a lot of the kind of stuff I can't be doing with I would also at least find very dull if it involved fictional characters. But there is definitely something I'm (more) uncomfortable with where real people - particularly living people - are concerned.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think, for me, it is when it is living people - all too often the RPFs are just a sort of fantasy sex life between two actors, or two ice-hockey players, or whoever, that seems to me to be basically a lie about them.

But the historic version, yes - I enjoy those - like Derryn Lake's 'Death at...' series, or Peter Tonkin's Elizabethan mysteries.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I agree with curiouswombat. As long as it isn't about living people (unless those are mentioned only or have short cameos), I can enjoy histroic real life characters. Like the Cadfael Chronicles - the main hero is an original character, but all sorts of historic characters pop up in the novels, and the historic background is explored very well; but it doesn't insult or demolish any of the real people mentioned there.