*a little bit traumatised*

[eccentricsage]

Oh fucking hell... I was googling Soft Ballet for info and pics and ended up on a page that I THOUGHT was Wikipedia. >_>; My shock grew into rage as I read the slanderous background for Maki Fuji, wich involved, Endo, Ken, Atsushi, and Imai as well, in all sorts of afairs, etc. I was about to post on the coms to ask for help with edditing the

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[muchi_no_namida]

o_o; That's....odd. I don't like the wiki-copy sites..unless there is a huge difference. [like the pokemon wiki-like site. x3] anyways.
I can't stand real-person roleplays. I do love reading fanfiction..but I suppose there's differences. I could never just pretend to be ..oh..let's say Toll. :B and act like him. How do you know that's what he would really do? Kinda like...putting words into people's mouth. [sorta.] And another thing, having it public? At least with the jrock rps on lj..the communities are FO...make it private. ~_~

[eccentricsage]

Even with fanfiction, though, it's the same thing sometimes... portraying the bandmembers in a way they didn't choose to be portrayed, know what I mean? I can understand how fans want to combine their love of the band with their love of fiction, comic books, writing, drawing... but putting words into their mouths and having them do things they might not in real life is rather creepy when you realy think about it. I understand some fans are very well intentioned about it, and I respect the ones who keep the fiction to private LJs and such. But generaly I think fans get a little lost in their lust for the band sometimes and forget about the line between reality and fantasy. It's realy disturbing.

[muchi_no_namida]

Yeah. xx; Which is why I kick myself in the head for reading it sometimes. But some fans..you're right..they just go crazy with it. o_o;

[eccentricsage]

I can sympathise with you. I've read a tiney bit of ArienRisu's fics because she's my friend, and I know she respects the bandmembers as people and that she keeps this stuff just between friends. It's still a little uncomfortable, but I want to encourage her as a writer because she is good at it.

I realy just hate seeing any suport for real people fiction that's hosted in a very publick manner. It's just plain lazy and disrespectful for people to share real people fics in easily acsessed publick places. There's always that issue of the bandmembers, or worse yet the bandmember's children if they have any, coming across it. I wish people would just keep it to forums and coms where you have to join to view the materials. Then the fans could enjoy their hobby while showing some respect to the famous people who inspired them.

[muchi_no_namida]

Ah, I see. ~
And, I read one of your comments above..about how certain people [family, children, etc] could run into these types of things..and It really is scary. I couldn't imagine if I just happened to be a some lovely band and my fanbase wrote me in with...the drummer or something..and I found it? o_o; So yeah...they should at least keep it private.

[eccentricsage]

Exactly, exactly. I wish more of these fans would put themselves in the bandmember's shoes like you just did. *nod*

What's wose is when people write realy horible things that insult their personal character, or stories about them getting raped or shit. I heard that stuff is rampant in some fandoms. D: How can these writers and readers of such things consider themselves fans?