Ah! Okay, fandom was much different then. I'll edit that information into the spork.

"but to his tween summer job doing historical re-enactment in Colonial Williamsburg. Isn't Living History the buzzword term for that stuff?"
Ah, I didn't know about that part of his past. I just assumed he was going on about his reincarnation gimmick again. That explains where he got the infatuation with Being A Soldier...
(He did go on about a past life as a soldier at one point on the VB account, as I recall. Someone uploaded a text file on fandom-wank showing a post about that, I think... Ah, here we go.

http://www.angelfire.com/ex/seether128/LJStuff.txt

53. [Dream of mutilated bodies, blood, death, and gore?] Thanks to a combination of military past-life memories, love of militaria, and a nasty temper, yes.
So I interpreted the "my experience with 18th century living history" as a reference to those "past-life" memories. What you said makes more sense, though.

Incidentally, one particular bit of that post is rather worrisome given his current interests on Tumblr...
[If you could be anywhere, [...] what would you be doing?] Running an asylum for fen.)


Anyway, thank you for the information!

EDIT: The information has been added. Thanks again!