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⌈ Secret Post #2821 ⌋

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Star Trek]

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[Fall Out Boy]

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[Monster]

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[Left 4 Dead 2/Grand Theft Auto 5]

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[Cabin Pressure]

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[Quantum Leap]

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[Amy Winehouse]

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Or maybe it's not that unpopular. -shrug- Looking at the thread so far, it will be.

I don't think RPF, by itself, is creepy. I've said this before, my friends and I started a writing club because we'd spent time creating sprawling epics detailing how our crushes (usually members of the marching band, and yes, we were losers) would fall in love with us, and we'd share them with each other. And we've yet to kidnap somebody to live out these fantasies, partially because these stories were outlets for our romantic frustrations, and partially because writing them made us realize that our crushes were complete nincompoops.

Basically, there's a difference between writing a story and posting it where somebody related to the person in question could easily see it, or taking it even further than that. (OP, I know you're talking about RPF between children, which I found skeevy even when I was a child, but this comment was addressing the thread more than the secret, sorry.)

Personally, I think that RPF is only creepy because of the massive gossip/paparazzi industry that feeds it. If people want to write about someone who is long dead, or someone as their public persona (like Stephen Colbert) that's totally fine with me. Also the really crazy AUs where, say, the guys from Supernatural are unicorns in space. But all the hook-up fic is fucking creepy. I work next to a newsagency and I always see their paid, published RPF magazines in the window ("Angelina fights Jennifer!" "Kate has triplets!" "Too thin!" "Too fat!") and it makes me think that celebrities, even super minor ones, are like property, not actual people. Especially when they photograph the non-celebrity family members, and especially especially the kids.

Your story is cute, if a little dorky. And I think if the RPF folks kept it as a bonding exercise between friends, the thread would be a lot kinder. But if you and your friends had posted your stories on the marching band website or distributed copies of your stories to the football team, or started picking fights with other people who didn't believe that the trombone player and the piccolo player would ever have a threesome with your friend Jenny, then it would have gone into the creepy territory that seems to be the default mode with most fandoms' RPF crowd.

This. A lot of us at one time or another when we were young had fantasies of our crushes, which detailed or not, is essentially fanfic in our heads.

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