[ SECRET POST #4856 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4856 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Do you read/enjoy real person fanfiction?

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Only crack.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not against it but I can't think of a lot of good RPF I've read (except things where I have no familiarity with the people involved and am reading it as basically smut, I guess)

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

I was really into bandom RPF in college (never wrong any, just read a ton), but I feel weird about it now. :P

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

I did use to read a ton of bandom back during my emo days, but I remember a lot of it was wildly OOC. There were some good fics that explored the worlds built in a particular band's album, but the vast majority were really smutty and I felt weird reading them after I found out somebody sent Mikey Way some Waycest fic. Who thought that was a good idea?

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Not much. The only types I find interesting is complete what-if situations with two real people that don't already have personal interactions.

So like, two members of the same boyband or two actors on the same show who already work together and are around each other all the time? Meh. A member of some boyband, running into someone more distant like a guitarist in a metal band, or an unrelated actor, or a politician or something and you can somehow make the public personalities work together in a ship? That's interesting and I want to know how you do it.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Never could get into it, even as a 12-year-old

I used to think it was gross, because I kept thinking what the real people written about would think about it, but it doesn't bother me anymore.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[philstar22]

Nope. Hard nope. I want escape in my fanfiction, just like I do most of the time with my media. I have no problem with other people reading it, though personally it makes me uncomfortable.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

NOPE. and I was even going to make a secret but lol now I'd be accused of contributing to a glut of them on the same topic.

basically, having worked in the music industry, what a lot of people call a celebrity's "persona" is not a persona or a character. it's their customer service face. we all have one, they're just forced to use theirs more frequently because they're almost always in the public eye. like, I'm willing to you-do-you for people who straight up admit they're just writing OCs with real people faces and names, but the ones who try to justify their RPF by claiming that they're writing the personas and not the real people, I can't. that's like writing RPF of the grocery clerk who forces herself to smile in the face of Karen instead of ripping her a new one like she really wants to. it's not a persona, it's just being a human being to other human beings.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. Written it, even.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Used to. Seems to have less great fic.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

No, I hate it and people who are into it are disgusting.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Only Game Grumps (Egobang)

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, I'm not into celebs in any way, usually don't even know who the actors in a thing I watch are and don't care to find out.

I'm here for the characters and their relationships, not the people who play them. Others can do what they want ofc, but RPF holds no interest for me at all.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Back when I thought people only wrote RPF as crack, I thought it was fun (I remember reading one on Leonardo DiCaprio and Rihanna doing a heist together forever ago on LJ)

Nowadays? I feel grossed out by the concept alone. I'm usually the kind of person who just stays in my own lane when it comes to things like preferences in fics - but there's a big difference between the most fucked up kink thing happening to a fictional character, and writing an obsessive fic about the real people who are shipped together while harassing them (and their family/friends/SO) on social media. It's disgusting, and even though I know that not all people into RPF are like that - it doesn't change the fact that there's an overwhelming number of people who are like that.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

I've read a bit. I read a few short Gillian Anderson/David Duchonvy fics back in the 00s. And one Taylor Swift fic that was really quite good. But that's about it. It's just never grabbed me.

And while I'm generally fine with it, I do get pretty uncomfortable with dark stuff in RPF. I wouldn't harass anyone over it; it just makes me uncomfortable.

I also don't like how common it is for RPFers to talk about their headcanons as if they're reality. Like, they know they're just making shit up, but the way they talk about it does not convey that to anybody observing them.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. Feels weird. Granted, it pales in comparison to actually scheming and manipulating events of people's lives, but I still find it creepy. Just a milder level of creepy.

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[greghousesgf]

sometimes

Re: Since it is apparently on F!S's brain

[(Anonymous)]

In theory, yes. I'm actually really into an RPF ship right now but they're sort of obscure so there's no fic. I've actually thought about writing some, but always decide not to because I find it too weird. I feel like there are all kinds of interesting stories that could be told, but some of them are pretty dark and like the OP of #6 mentioned, it feels weird to put real people in those sorts of situations. Not to mention making them fall in love with their coworker when there are RL SOs/kids is just...kind of awkward.

So I probably won't be writing any, but if I happen to come across some for the pairing I'm currently into (it's the only RPF ship I've ever had any interest in), I would absolutely read it and would probably enjoy it if the writing is halfway decent.

"my" side of fandom is dying

[(Anonymous)]

So I'm part of a fandom that used to be popular among the older crowd.
Those people have largely moved on due to the source material constantly changing, alienating previous fans, and the fandom becoming younger.
I think it's actually great, to have an entire new generation interested in the fandom, and personally, I have no problem with the source material changing because it doesn't mean the older stuff is suddenly nonexistent.

But. (Because there's always a but.)

The newgen is migrating from Wattpad and FFN to AO3.
Most of the stories in this particular fandom on sites like Wattpad and FFN are largely character/reader oriented.
That's fine. The quality varies from holy-shit-why to pretty good. It's not my cup of tea, but to each their own.

In contrast, almost none of the older fans have written or are willing to write in that particular genre.

So nowadays stories that aren't character/reader insert fics, either get no comment or are harshly critisized for having problematic content such as dark themes, rape, general kinky fuckery, even though the tags are there and trigger warnings are in place. (The source material
itself can be very dark at times and have featured some of these themes, canonically.)
And the newgen are apparently so accustomed to antis, that they feel the need to leave very negative, non-crit comments on fics they know they won't like based on the tags. And it's. So frustrating.

(And of course, there are almost no negative comments on the character/reader insert fics, because people who aren't into the genre know to leave it the fuck alone.)

I'm annoyed because some of my favorite authors have been getting this treatment lately, and there's been a decrease in the content they're putting out.

:(

Inspired by #8

[(Anonymous)]

Who are your favorite athletes of all time?

(the more random the better)

It is mid week

[(Anonymous)]

How is yours going?

Favorite Character from your first online fandom Vs your Favorite Character from a recent fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Who would win? Would they fight? Would you ship it? What would happen if they met?

Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh! Vs Jadzia Dax from Deep Space Nine

Seto has the technology, but I think that Jadzia could hack her way in to his destruction, or beat him in a duel. That being said I think Jadzia would be interested in wth is going on with the technology, but I don't think Seto would stick around long enough to talk about it.

Leverage Is Coming Back?

[(Anonymous)]

For your all's information:

https://deadline.com/2020/04/leverage-reboot-noah-wyle-timothy-hutton-not-returning-imdb-tv-beth-riesgraf-gina-bellman-christian-kane-aldis-hodge-amazon-studios-1202912578/

Leverage is apparently coming back with Noah Wyle in place of Tim Hutton