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beansideI had an awesome bit of meta about the nature of RPS, and how it relates to the real people who it is about. Then, I spent ten minutes oogling Jeff's crotch in sweats, and forgot most of it.
But, because I know you all areso sick of this you could puke just burning to know my thoughts on it...
So, as I've said before, I started out writing fiction in the pro wrestling fandom. Unless you wanted to write that the Undertaker was really the living dead, and that the Brood were really vampires, you kinda had to be writing an odd mix of FPS/RPS. And honestly, some of them straddled the line perfectly--what if one of them was a vampire?
But generally, people wrote a it as RPS. And it was fine. Most of the wrestlers knew about it, and didn't care. More than once, we all tuned in Monday night to find that we'd contributed story lines or dialog. It was a running joke in the fandom.
Wrestling taught me the basic rules of RPS, though. When I wrote Shawn Michaels, I wasn't writing about the man who goes home to his family and eats dinner and takes out the trash. I wrote about HBK, the Showstoppa, and what he chose to show his fans in public and in interviews or what not. It was every bit as AU as anything I've written. If I actually got to know a wrestler personally, I generally had to take them off my list of people to write about. Because then, I knew what they were like, and what they did when they went home to their family. And that would have been an invasion of privacy to me.
Then, I moved on to the Metallica fandom. Still, I was writing about the bits the group shared with their fans. I tended to simply pretend the wives didn't exist. First, it made it easier to get the boys together. Second, I didn't feel comfortable writing about women whose only clame to fame was who they'd married.
On the other hand, in popslash, you had Justin and Britney. Fair game, because both are public figures, with accompanying public personnas. Also, at the very least, NSync was well aware of fandom, and thought it was awesome/funny that people wrote RPS about them.
And here I am in SPN RPS. Still writing public persona. Still not writing any non-actress/public figure girlfriend. Still having a blast.
I love the guys. I love their work. I would love to meet them someday. But I thoroughly enjoy bending them in half and getting their brains fucked out in my fic.
Would that impact how I reacted to them in person? Hell no. I would still be polite, and recognize that if they chose to interact with me, it was at their forbearance. I think it boils down to the fact that you're either an insane stalker, or you know how to behave in society. What you write has little to no bearing on that.
But, because I know you all are
So, as I've said before, I started out writing fiction in the pro wrestling fandom. Unless you wanted to write that the Undertaker was really the living dead, and that the Brood were really vampires, you kinda had to be writing an odd mix of FPS/RPS. And honestly, some of them straddled the line perfectly--what if one of them was a vampire?
But generally, people wrote a it as RPS. And it was fine. Most of the wrestlers knew about it, and didn't care. More than once, we all tuned in Monday night to find that we'd contributed story lines or dialog. It was a running joke in the fandom.
Wrestling taught me the basic rules of RPS, though. When I wrote Shawn Michaels, I wasn't writing about the man who goes home to his family and eats dinner and takes out the trash. I wrote about HBK, the Showstoppa, and what he chose to show his fans in public and in interviews or what not. It was every bit as AU as anything I've written. If I actually got to know a wrestler personally, I generally had to take them off my list of people to write about. Because then, I knew what they were like, and what they did when they went home to their family. And that would have been an invasion of privacy to me.
Then, I moved on to the Metallica fandom. Still, I was writing about the bits the group shared with their fans. I tended to simply pretend the wives didn't exist. First, it made it easier to get the boys together. Second, I didn't feel comfortable writing about women whose only clame to fame was who they'd married.
On the other hand, in popslash, you had Justin and Britney. Fair game, because both are public figures, with accompanying public personnas. Also, at the very least, NSync was well aware of fandom, and thought it was awesome/funny that people wrote RPS about them.
And here I am in SPN RPS. Still writing public persona. Still not writing any non-actress/public figure girlfriend. Still having a blast.
I love the guys. I love their work. I would love to meet them someday. But I thoroughly enjoy bending them in half and getting their brains fucked out in my fic.
Would that impact how I reacted to them in person? Hell no. I would still be polite, and recognize that if they chose to interact with me, it was at their forbearance. I think it boils down to the fact that you're either an insane stalker, or you know how to behave in society. What you write has little to no bearing on that.
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Date: 2007-12-06 05:37 pm (UTC)And also? Knowing how to act in society - totally key. I never understood how someone could meet someone and completely not realize - hey, that's a person. Would I want some people running up, screaming, interrupting my family dinner or what have you, and staking claim over your person simply because of my job? Huh. No. But you know...*shrugs* Respect and coherent thought is something that's apparently lacking somewhat. (Not that I wouldn't be completely starstruck *g*)