Well. I'm batting 1000 today, so...

[brihana25]

Apparently, I've affronted people across fandoms with my opinion that male rape =/= slash. Further, apparently, a story that contains male rape cannot possibly be gen, because there's M/M sex involved (because, apparently, the "consensual" part of "relationship" need not apply). Any M/M sex, consensual or rape, is slash

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[gategrrl]

Actually, you know, I just remembered that a long time ago (sort of: about 25-30 years ago) I read some Star Trek fanfic anthology that was printed by Pocket books (back when in the late 70s), and it did included fictionalized versions of the *actors* in the stories in that classic trope of the actors and characters switching places in their universes. Just like in Galaxy Quest.

So, RPS has been around for a long time, and probably before that, too. In that Galaxy Quest type setting, I "get" it: the entire setting is the fictional setting--The Twilight Zone did it, too. So you *know* absolutely that the "actors" are also "characters" in how the writer envisioned them. That's fun--as long as you have an idea of the real person, I think.

Another big difference, the same that's heralded Fanfic's emergence as a larger pop culture force is TA DA! The ubiquitous INTERNET! Without the internet, many people, even many fans, would be ignorant of RPS, or at least be more able to ignore it as "those even crazier than ME fans" in their own corner of fandom.

I simply stay away from it because, damn, even if someone "cared" enough about me and started writing fictionalized stories about my life (I'm not George Washington here, but anyhow) I would probably freak out.

Hmm...George Washington, Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Alex Haley's Roots...you could say all the history lessons we grew up with on these people are ALSO RPS in that, we the people wanted to believe these people were the way we wanted to remember them, and not the way they *really* were-which might have been even *better* than their fictionalized representations.

Gah, sorry, I'm just thinking out loud.

[khek]

There's a lot of objections in the children's lit world to "fictionalized" biographies...which are, basically RPS about historical personages.

There was a huge backlash about the popularity of the "Childhood of Famous Americans" series (which took bare bone facts and created a whole story with quotes and the thoughts of the famous characters) and from the 70s through the 90s, most biographies were clearly factual. Now, though, things are moving back in the fictionalized direction.

None of which has anything to do with SPN RPS, but it's rather interesting...

[aizjanika]

RPF = Real Person Fiction; RPS = Real Person Slash. hehe

I remember those Childhood of Famous Americans books, and they were, essentially, RPF.