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Do you think that shipping characters in something like Band of Brothers or The Crown is RPF or now?

Nah. "Based on a true story" things are still fiction. Someone might ship the versions of the same historical people in one series but not ship them in another.

in another series that covers the same exact story.*

This. A lot of it usually comes down to the chemistry of the particular actors.

Interesting philosophical quandary. I guess if you are using the canon of the show and not real life it wouldn't be, but I can see the lines getting blurred.

I mean my automatic reaction was No, but then they are real people so...idk. Fun thing to ponder, thanks for that!

Yes, I consider it RPF. Back when BoB was new and again when Generation Kill came out, their fic was always tagged RPF.

If it's strictly set within the limits of the piece of media, no, it's about the fictionalized version of events (which I guess is RPF itself, with the intention of making an entertaining story based on actual events). If it draws on IRL info outside of the canon, yes. Just my personal definition, like The Social Network is a work of fiction for example, but someone could actually ship the figures depicted in the movie as RPF and be into celebrity/business world gossip about them. This is a somewhat arbitrary line to draw and probably varies by situation, just what makes sense to me.

The Crown is a weird case, because like... I can see someone getting into Band of Brothers without having previously known about any of the real people, and with ALL of their knowledge of those people coming from the show itself. Even knowing that it's based on real people's stories, you're engaging with a piece of media that you CAN kind of consume separately from all of that.

It's a LOT harder to sit down and watch The Crown without knowing ANYTHING about any of the people in it that doesn't come from the show, where your FIRST thought when you hear 'Queen Elizabeth' is one of the actresses who play her, etc.

Now, I do still think someone writing fic for The Crown is still RESPONDING to the actors' performances and chemistry, and responding to what things the show chooses to emphasize or leave out, and of course the show is not a perfectly accurate reflection of reality. But, like... I just think there's sort of strata of removal from reality in different biopics and historical shows, and it's interesting to look at.

As someone who was in fandoms like this (Ts, the Pacific, actually Band of Brothers) - no, not really. It's based on fictionized version. BUT some writers were on the line using things from real life in their writing. I think it was sort of RPF

Well, since the canon is RPF, I'd say yeah. If pushed, maybe I'd call it RPF once removed.

Yeah? Duh? You're shipping real people. And sure the version you're shipping is based on a fictionalized portrayal by an actor instead of the fanon construction of interviews/biographies/whatever but it's all the same impulse.

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