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⌈ Secret Post #2078 ⌋

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Someone posted something about this a while ago and didn't get much response, but secret #10 reminded me of it. The poster a while ago said they thought that people who have been in fandom (in general) for a long time are less squicked by RPF than people who are relatively new. Maybe it's living through popslash, LotRPS, and the heyday of J2, maybe it's a seen-it-all thing, but I think that's probably true.

What say you, f!s? Are you squicked by RPF?

I think it depends what fandoms you're in. I used to be almost exclusively in animanga fandoms, and I found RPF really fucking weird when I first found out about it. I still find it weird but not to the extent I did before. I just don't understand the appeal. I appreciate actors and singers and whatever for their talents, but I could care less about them on a personal level. I mean, I care about Sam and Dean on SPN, but I am pretty indifferent toward Jared and Jensen as people if that makes sense.

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(Anonymous) - 2012-09-11 00:05 (UTC) - Expand

10 years and counting in fandom, and still DNW about RPF.

I mean, yeah, okay, I'm not gonna hunt people's journals for RPF before I decide if I like them (sorry ten! I'm not that invested in judging people), but I'm not going to read that.

I'd definitely say that I've become less squicked by RPF as my time in fandom has gone on. Though right now (nd it certainly depends on who the RPF is about) I have this kind of forbidden relationship with it. I know I should stay away and it's wrong but sometimes it's just so right. Yup.

Beginning: Hell yes. Now: Not so much, even if it sometimes skeeves me.

I've been in fandom for... 20 years? And I'm actually MORE squicked out by RPF than I used to be. Heck, I even wrote some in my early days in fandom. Now? Nope, not gonna do it.

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(Anonymous) - 2012-09-11 02:51 (UTC) - Expand

nothing squicks me. i dont know what that says about me

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insanenoodlyguy - 2012-09-11 00:44 (UTC) - Expand

I have nothing against RPF. I even read it on occasion, but as a whole, I prefer fan/original fiction. Oftentimes, fans don't know enough about the celebrity to write more than original fiction, anyway.

I grew up during the heyday of popslash, and yeah, I think its true. I'm not squicked by RPF, and I'll even read it if its decent, but don't write it.

Not necessarily. I've been in for a while, and I still judge those nutters harder then even the fucking otherkin.

I'm not *squicked* by RPF per se, but I do avoid it. Harmless little drabbles are okay, I guess... anything porny & I judge people. Although I must say, SPN fandom has greatly reduced my ability to be squicked by things.

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with-rainfall.livejournal.com - 2012-09-11 00:11 (UTC) - Expand

Whenever I have to talk about RPF with someone, I say this:

Imagine you get famous for whatever reason. You're a celebrity. Now imagine you're married to your lad or lady of choice, very happily, and you've also got a wonderful best friend.

Now imagine a bunch of your fans, people who don't know you beyond your public image, spreading vitriolic lies about how your marriage is a sham, your spouse is a slut or a whore, and you're fucking your best friend.

People are drawing art of you with said friend, someone that you've never considered that way. Some of them are attacking you publicly at conventions or interviews, calling you names for hurting your 'true love'.

How would you feel? Would it strain your marriage? Imagine you're touchy feely and you tend to hug your friend a lot, but now you're uncomfortable doing it in public because you know there's a legion of people waiting for you to so much as look at them affectionately so that they can add it to their pile of 'evidence'.

If I were in that situation, I would feel physically ill. So no, I don't do RPF. And I don't think it's okay.

(Obviously, having a fantasy about celebrities is quite different - it's private, and it's not going to have an effect on their lives. It's the people who openly and sometimes violently ship it that I don't agree with.)

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(Anonymous) - 2012-09-11 02:55 (UTC) - Expand

Not at all. People write about things. They just do.

I don't get why RPF bothers people at all.

ETA People always say "what if you found RPF about you?" Personally, I'm hella curious what people would write about me. Who they'd pair me with. What they'd assume I like to do. What they'd get right, and what they'd get wrong.

Could that be creepy? Sure. Would it inherently? I've never thought so.

Edited 2012-09-11 00:12 (UTC)

It squicks me but I don't care if other people write it as long as they don't push their writing on me. Which, let's be honest, how often does that happen? Hardly ever.

It makes me feel really...bad (embarrassed?) when people send their RPF to the people they wrote it about though. I know that for most RPF writers that would never happen. You guys have fight club kind of rules; correct me if I'm wrong. But for those few individuals who do, that's the thing that makes me feel super awkward pants.

Forgot to add: I would LOVE to read crack!RPF where the author/creator becomes the 'verse's equivalent of God. Or an actor whose character is canonically God is transplanted into the 'verse.

there's a border between writing rpf for fun and actually believing in rpf that i think often fails get delineated, both for people who don't like it and some people who engage in it. for the people who write rpf, the first is attitude is harmless and the second is a little too tinhatty & invasive for my taste.

no judgement here though. ~~hell i started off in fandom writing rpf almost a decade ago.~~

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(Anonymous) - 2012-09-11 00:31 (UTC) - Expand

I can read RPF no problem. I don't think of the characters in the story as anything but OCs who have some startling similarity to some famous people. Or the way a lot of RPF seems to be written, it's just as easy to think of them as the fictional characters they play -- never mind that the author is using the "wrong" names.

I'm pretty sure I'd be very squicked if I read RPF of someone I know. That's just too close to TMI.

I've been doing fandom-y stuff since I was 8 (I'm 24 now) and I'm STILL squicked out by RPF. And I was even in the LOTR fandom. So...yeah.

I mean, I try to ignore it rather than say something, but it still feels like digging around in someone's personal life way too much to me for me to be comfortable with it.

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brightblueink - 2012-09-11 01:29 (UTC) - Expand

I will sound contradictory as fuck but it doesn't squick me as long as it's not a real couple.

I mean, I don't love it but I tolerate and can even like some if they are well written and the actors kind of play about it (Fassavoy comes to mind)
But if they already are a couple and you are writing about them having sex I can't find the back button quick enough (Like NPH and David)

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yeranonnyharry - 2012-09-11 00:54 (UTC) - Expand

I don't really care all that much if people ship rpf, honestly so long as it stays within the fandom and the shippers aren't trying to shove it down the celebrities throats or insist that it's real(because that is creepy and rude) then by all means carry on. I have the same opinion with character ships as well, it's fun and I ship a lot of things but good god please keep it away from actors. I also do not like papparazzi and photographers that do not seem to understand what privacy is, I would like to feed those kinds of people to a pit of rabid wolverines.

I've always found RPF slightly squicky. Less so when I was younger because I used to have self-insert fantastasies about certain actors, so RPF was just a twist on my own fantasies. But, I don't really fantasize about real people anymore, so I can't relate to RPF. It's a little more squicky to me now that I don't share a similar mindset.

I've been in fandom for years and I'm still squicked by it.

Maybe for me, it's because I generally couldn't give less of a fuck about the actors/celebrities/singers or whatever. I enjoy what they produce but I pay no attention to their names or their lives. I've got no interest in them outside of their specific character role so I (personally) find it creepy to see fic aboout a real person who probably has their own real relationships and experiences happening.

It's just. They're a real person, I don't want to fictionalise them. It feels dishonest. I'll stick to fictional characters.

Been in fandom for 8-9 years. I wouldn't say I'm squicked by it, per se, but I've never liked it; I find it a bit weird and try to avoid it.

Reading everyone's stuff above makes me want to read crack RPF of posters here. Even anons.

I won't read/write it. I just think it would be hilarious.