Why do you care about historical accuratecy?
PRESUMABLY REFERENCING THIS POST I MADE // because even though this blog is musical-based, i’m ultimately here to tell the story of a historical figure i love and respect and admire. david hosack is largely forgotten by history and i hate that. he deserved better. he deserves better. and in order to ensure he gets some degree of that ‘better’ , i choose to be accurate down to the tiniest detail i know in the way i tell his story. if i’m not doing that faithfully every chance i get, then why am i even here anymore ?
this account was almost a “historical”-based blog first ; i changed it to musically-based because i saw it, at the time of the account’s creation, to be a wider platform to ground him. i’ve considered jumping that ship on multiple occasions for Reasons that aren’t relevant right now, BUT the point i’m getting to right now is that if you think the fact i use a poc faceclaim changes how concerned i am about accuracy, you’re wrong.
and for that post specifically, like i said in it, i’m not hating on lin or whatever. i always say SAY HIS NAME as almost a joke. but it’s not, not really. it’s frustrating to me that even the fucking musical, which could have put him most mainstream he’s ever been ( or will ever likely be ) made him an unnamed footnote. i joke about it all the time because it makes a good story ( and because he was so nice and i really genuinely do love him ) but it still bugs me that sydney — who played ‘the doctor’ on the cast recording / for the majority of its opening year — didn’t even recognize his name. that two or three times now, i’ve heard lin get hosack-related facts severely wrong in interviews. that his contribution to rockefeller center is just a plaque. that the number of books written about him is in the low single digits ( and one of them is a fictionalized bastardization that i just … no. )
TL ; DR ———– everyone else sidelines david hosack. i refuse to.
