[ SECRET POST #5254 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5254 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you, OP. People have a knee-jerk "it's wrong" reaction to RPF without appreciating grey areas or nuance. Not every RPF fan are harassing celebs, I'd argue not even most are. People judge RPF by the worst of the fandom and it's not cool.
The hypocrisy of people who hate RPF is what gets me. fine, don't like RPF but also don't read gossip mags and don't consume any media that is "based on a real life person" or you're being a hypocrite imo.

[(Anonymous)]

See the problem with RPF fans is that they have a so-so relationship with reality. Some of them even think it's hypocritical to watch a biography if you're not cool with constructing elaborate, public fantasies about how people you think are hot should ditch their wives and bang.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a ridiculous post

[tabaqui]

.......wow, no, wtf are you on about?

[(Anonymous)]

there is an extremely fine line between knowing something is obviously a fictionalization, and being able to plausibly believe that the fantasy you've created about the real person might actually be real and not a fantasy. I've seen RPF tagged on AO3 that is also things like werewolf AU and at that point....well shit, obviously it's fictional, but I honestly wonder about people who need to write real people as werewolves boning instead of a pair of OCs (which, yes, I'm sure at that point the characters are basically OCs anyway but then why dress them up with an actor's name?) but that's a real you-do-you. I won't read it, but whatever. I enjoy media focusing on ridiculous and obvious fictionalizations of historical figures so sure, why not, who cares.

But RPF of the porny kind where the real people are in real situations that are applicable to their lives...that's where the fan's investment in their ideas of the real lives of real people can cross the line from obviously-fictional to plausibly-realistic and that's where people can lose perspective. It's not always grandiosely obvious, it can be very subtle and for myself, even a subtle suggestion that the author or their readers think the person really might be like this and really might be idk pretending to be straight for the press or whatever, is kinda gross. It might not be fair to paint all RPF and RPF fans with the same brush, but this is one of those odd cases where a few bad apples really do spoil the whole bushel.

[(Anonymous)]

"It might not be fair to paint all fans with the same brush, but this is one of those odd cases where a few bad apples really do spoil the whole bushel." is a great way of summarizing the whole fandom experience isn't it

[(Anonymous)]

da

Most people who dislike RPF don't read gossip mags or watch biopics of currently-living or recently deceased people, is the thing. Because they don't like RPF. There are exceptions, of course, and some people are okay with authorized biographies (or biographies that claim to be authorized, which is its own problem) where they're not okay with unauthorized fic or gossip rags, but the hypocrisy RPF fans like to complain about is like the people showing RPF porn to its subjects. It happens, but it isn't the majority, and it's ridiculous to judge the entirety of the other side of fandom by it.

[(Anonymous)]

+1