[ SECRET POST #4868 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4868 ⌋

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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

I have to agree -- it was fucking funny lol. Thanks to whoever posted the link last time this was brought up!

I also think I would be...inwardly embarrassed, if I wrote something like that and the persons in question read it, but I would take it like a champ/good sport and laugh it off (much like the cast and crew did). It's exactly what you're saying. It's not like this was under an F-Lock post on LJ. It is out there, floating in the ether. Somebody was bound to find it. And in someone will likely mock it/find it hilarious. It is what it is. Such is the nature of these things

[(Anonymous)]

The person who was upset... /massive eye roll/ I agree, you write explicit RPF about someone, and you're not prepared for the very real possibility they'll find it? Time to take a break from fandom until you get a grip.

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[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree with you that when the subjects of your RPF decide to read your fic and then respond to it publically, that’s something you just need to accept as a potential result of having posted it in the first place.

OTOH, I remember back a few years ago, there was that one professional interviewer (Caitlin Moran I think her name was) who printed off someone’s Johnlock fanfic from the internet, and pressured Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch into reading some of it during a live interview. They were pretty clearly uncomfortable, but she just sort of badgered them into it. I though that was really not cool. Mainly, it was uncool to BC and MF, but it was also pretty hurtful to the fic author, and I think it was incredibly understandable that the fic author felt embarrassed and very stung (though she was a good sport about it anyway).

But in a situation where it's the subject of the fic itself doing the seeking out, then yeah, that's just a part of the risk you take by posting it where they could potentially find it, and getting butthurt about it is kind of ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Yeah. I think there's a huge difference between the subject of your your fic actively choosing to seek out rpf based on them and going, "Omg, I found this fic written about me; it's so weird!" and a third party using your fic to make people you admire uncomfortable.

[greghousesgf]

I'd probably be embarrassed if Hugh Laurie read any of my fanfic, especially the real dirty ones.

[(Anonymous)]

I know nothing about these people, but how the fuck does anyone write stuff like that about people they know?
This is why I think RPF is downright creepy.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh? I doubt the fic writers actually know Rhett and Link. They just watch their show.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah I misread it then - I thought it meant writers for the show.

If Anyone Wants To Watch The Video

[(Anonymous)]

The last story was the one that the author was super excited about.

https://youtu.be/bkFafTiluSs

Some definitely have a sense of humor about it, while others decidedly do not.

[(Anonymous)]

I can understand being somewhat embarrassed, just like you might be if a celebrity directly responded to a gushing or insulting public post about them. But being truly angry if someone finds something you publicly posted about them, no. And if you really don't realize that someone might find your public post about them, you should stop posting anything and learn more about the internet before posting again.

[(Anonymous)]

It's incredibly hypocritical to be embarrassed or angry about someone finding and reading your RPF about them. You had zero shame when you wrote it, you don't deserve to have any now that people are mocking it.

[(Anonymous)]

there's a band that i follow whose members will do twitch streams, and one of the members mentioned they had the idea of uploading a video where they reacted to fanfiction about them but they'd ended up not doing it because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. my reactions ranged from "aw that's so sweet of them to not to want to hurt feelings" to "oh thank GOD they're not doing it they are NOT prepared".

[(Anonymous)]

is this about 5sos? or are there other bands I don't know about who do twitch streams and read fanfiction :O

op

[(Anonymous)]

it was not about 5sos! and i don't think this band is actively in the habit of reading fanfiction, but they were doing weekly videos on their youtube channel for a while (they'd play games, do youtube challenges, stuff like that). they ended up not doing one reading fanfiction which is probably for the best.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish, deep in my heart and soul, that celebrities and writers and anyone else in entertainment would STOP acknowledging fandom. Let it do what it does, leave it alone.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah this is where i am with it.

When i was first in fandom i had the idea that RPS/RPF was inherently creepy and wrong, but nowadays you have youtubers reading fanfics/acting them out/reacting to them, and I can't help but feel that's tacit acceptance if not outright encouraging it??? Some celebs will even have "fanfic" sections on their official websites. idk.

It's a weird time and I really wish it was possible for there to be an appropriate "fan space" that celebs don't enter, but of course that is almost impossible to enforce.