Which was the style at the time.
I’ll pay you five bees for that onion.
It’s an endless supply and thus, a constant reminder. There are certain Pit threads about members of this very board that are the same way.
I went with the Lincoln as Vampire Hunter had already been referenced, but I suppose the more apt analogy that I should have used is, “Harriet Tubman: Slave Hunter”.
Yeah, that one would have been harder to pull off.
And yet, some right winger is probably writing it as “fanfic” right now.
The way I see it, “Proper” fanfic should be based on the idea of liking the original character, or actual person in such a case as this, and wanting to explore that person more thoroughly, even if it involves adding some counterfactuals to their life.
But with the Anne Frank and Harriet Tubman examples, you have to ask: if Anne were not Jewish, and Harriet not a major force in the Underground Railroad, would we ever had heard of them? There were plenty of other slave catchers in the US prior to the Civil War, so why would this one slave catcher have stood out?
If there is no such reason, then what’s the point of the counter-factual? What more would we learn of their character or circumstances by considering the counterfactual?
As I said, with talent and knowledge, you might be able to find such a hook, but the typical lazy, ignorant, “Haw Haw HAW!” right wing types simply don’t have such talent or knowledge.
It’s about a historical figure, and it’s set (presumably) in a distinct historical period, so I’d still call it historical fiction. Or, maybe something like “historical speculative fiction,” if I’m being fancy.
It’s still not “fan fiction.”
This is particularly scary because of the way Wisconsin Republicans have shamelessly gerrymandered the state’s legislative and congressional districts to retain permanent power in the face of a very slight Democratic majority. Michels is simply ramping up his party’s intentions to tighten the screws even more, with possible help coming from the Supreme Court to recognize a legislature’s powers to do just about anything it wants in the name of “regulating elections.”
It’s their very own version of Jim Crow.
That’s like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days.
The hamburgers were better (and bigger, too) when they called it Morganville. Of course, the downside was that sometimes you felt queasy on the return ferry trip because of that big, greasy burger. I miss them anyway.
Ron DeSantis’ campaign sent out mailers to Florida voters that mocked LGBTQ people. The fliers included a stock image of a male student wearing makeup during his graduation ceremony saying: “Thank you, Joe Biden and Charlie Crist, for making Floridians pay off my student debt.”
Don Bolduc, who claimed that a school was letting kids dressed as cats use litter boxes, says it’s up to the school to prove that they aren’t.
Senator Mike Lee of Utah caught on video saying, “phase out Social Security, pull it up from the roots, get rid of it.”
Hey, Duckie, you made the extraordinary claim, you have to supply the evidence.
Oh, wait – my bad. I was using logic, clearly beyond your capabilities.
Doesn’t seem to have made much progress in twelve years.
Don Bolduc needs to prove that he does not fuck grade school furries. I believe that he does until he can prove oherwise.
Arizona candidate for governor Kari Lake wants to roll back high school graduation requirements for math, science and history.
“Who says we have to have this many hours of science, this many of math and history? We can change that up.”
Kari Lake also wants to repeal Obamacare. 
I think the left should run with that. Start making sure the entire world is aware she is going to finish what trump couldn’t do. That she’s going to deliver on a promise that trump broke. Enough of that and it might piss off trump so he stops backing her out of fear that she will actually deliver on some of the things he promised to do (and then spent his entire presidency saying he’d have it done in a few more weeks).
Of course, that runs the risk of back firing and making him run again.