[ SECRET POST #3305 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3305 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I'm perfectly fine reading filthy, shameless RPF* smut, but when it's an intricately plotted, 100k epic love story that might as well have been an original story if not for the names, I just can't. It creeps me out.

*RPF of still-living people anyway, and the recently dead (and by recently, 10 years or so). Other than that, I'm totally fine with it.

[praetorian_guard]

RPF doesn't really wig me out, since I figure most of what we see of celebrities is a surface persona concocted for media consumption. I can see why it disturbs other people, though, and I definitely don't like when it starts intruding on the celebrities' lives (looking at you, 1D fandom).

I get the smut thing - thinking two people are hot and you want to see them fuck is a little different from making them fall in love. They both seem like id fic, but the former tends to be a lot more easily understandable.

[dancingmouse]

I'm not a fan of RPF in general, but those long, wordy, multi-chapter epics usually set off warning bells in my head, and I avoid them like the plague.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm writing one of those right now. :x It started out as a joke but then it became... not a joke. I'm sorry OP. Sometimes ideas just elope with your imagination and boredom.

[(Anonymous)]

My limit with RP in fic is shorter crack pieces or if they have a brief cameo (ex. Performance in a Leading Role by Mad_Lori).

[(Anonymous)]

OK, so do you mean that earlier historical figures are OK in longer novels, or not OK in PWP?

You've sucessfully confused me.

[(Anonymous)]

If it "might as well have been an original story if not for the names", why does it creep you out? It's kind of like fan-casting their original fic (this character looks like so-and-so). Unless, of course, the author makes it clear that they believe the real person is really like that, in which case, yes, that is kind of creepy. Honestly, I'm okay with RPF, but occasionally, I'll come across author's notes where they make it abundantly obvious that they are overly invested to the point of delusion and that really freaks me out.

[diet_poison]

I find RPS creepy in general but I can actually see why this in particular would get to someone. Somehow it feels even *more* invasive.