[ SECRET POST #3983 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3983 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I mean...I sort of get it for RPF AU at least. Jensen Ackles as an actor is really different from Jensen Ackles the veterinarian.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what he wants you to think.

[comma_chameleon]

I kind of get 'canon compliant' for bandoms, especially Asian bands because they do SO MUCH that 'canon' compliant makes sense say... if you're saying that all their appearances/things etc occur as they did, with the exception of whatever relationship you're adding in.

I don't feel its a necessary tag though.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not in any RPF fandoms, but I think in an RPF context, canon compliant probably just means, "All the major elements of this fic are compliant with whatever information we have on these people's lives."

[(Anonymous)]

I really hate RPF but I can understand why its fans use terminology like that. There's obviously no canon, but a fic can still be OOC in that it's inconsistent with how the actor presents themselves in interviews or on social media. And I can't think of a term besides canon divergent for a fic where, for example, an actor on a series that's long-running reality instead leaves the series in the second season and moves halfway across the world to become a painter. "Artist AU" usually comes with connotations that at some point in the past the celebrity became a painter instead of becoming an actor and lives a totally different life, but the example involves everything in their life being exactly the same up until the point they quit acting to be a painter.

[(Anonymous)]

I always assumed "canon compliant" meant it was set in the real world with the people still doing their jobs (i.e. acting/singing/whatever) rather than them being in college or whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

Makes me wonder what strictly canon-compliant, in-character RPF would be like. Is the author peeking in the actor's windows?

I don't know.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's a set of established facts about a real-life person that could be considered contraints. Things like age, birthplace, hometown, marriage(s), jobs, that kind of thing. I'm not sure I'd call it canon, but I would understand what the author was writing about.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it makes perfect sense to treat a celebrity's public persona and the various broadcasts, gossip columns, interviews, etc by which it's sustained as a distinct canon, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

I can tolerate RPF if it doesn't reach Larry levels of creepy, but I've noticed that any mentions of the actors spouses in the story make me cringe so bad. Please don't drag their families into that.

[(Anonymous)]

100%

[(Anonymous)]

There is a "canon", though, which is the facts known about the real people in question. Do people in RPF use "canon compliant" that way, or do they throw in tinhat stuff?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah... that's veering off from "normal" RPF into Snapewives territory. Unless you're writing a literal biography, there's no "canon," only the fiction you've developed around these people's public personas. Tagging a fic AU or OOC makes sense, if you've decided to make Jensen Ackles a barista or give Taylor Swift a debilitating porn addiction or something.

[(Anonymous)]

What about shows that break the fourth wall? Supernatural had an episode that had the actors play themselves ie; Jensen, Jared and Misha were all douchebag versions of themselves. I once wrote a fic based on that episode. Technically it was RPF because it was about the actors, but it was about the actors characters portrayed in that particular episode.