[ SECRET POST #5254 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5254 ⌋

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Comments

[(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