Anti-Fanfic Bingo, Round 2, part 1

[elfwreck]

These don't easily cohese in my mind the way the first set did. I think I'm going to take them on in reverse order.

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"Think about that one a bit before you jump out in favor of fanfic. Think of how you'd feel, finding your name-or your kids' names-used in the midst of some bizarre drug-induced backstage orgy sequence."

I know exactly how this feels, but fortunately it hasn't left a sour taste in my mouth. Someone once created a parody journal of mine, took all my entries and completely rewrote every single one into a sexual fantasy. Of course this wasn't meant for the persons own personal entertainment or for the sake of just writing something. They intentionally did it to harass me. The person got suspended for impersonation and harassment of course because I reported them.

The kind of fic you are talking about though isn't out of spite. It's out of love for a certain character and wanting to alter their universe because that makes you and others love them more. The person who did this to me did it out of spite. So I believe it's more the person's intention you'd have to look at, not what the characters are doingIf someone took all my

[kaizoku]

The kind of fic you are talking about though isn't out of spite. It's out of love for a certain character and wanting to alter their universe because that makes you and others love them more. The person who did this to me did it out of spite. So I believe it's more the person's intention you'd have to look at, not what the characters are doing.Hmm, I don't think this always holds water. I read a story recently in which a sports star (who is a real person) is raped by fictional characters. It was a humorous story but it was also definitely written out of dislike for the sports star and a sense of exacting metaphorical revenge. Of course, the author knows that they're writing about the real person *as a character* - they obviously don't want him to be raped in real life. So, I agree that it is about the intention of the writer, but not necessarily their feelings about the subject

[elfwreck]

I'm not a public figure in the way that a sports star is a public figure.

Not at the moment, no. But if you write lots of fic, you could get ficced yourself... I've seen crackfic involving JKR being harassed by her characters, and some that involves fanfic writers being chased around by plotbunnies (and favorite slash characters with erect penises, saying "You stupid Muggle bitch, you created this--GET ME LAID, dammit!")

And while there's an "all in good fun" atmosphere about it, it can also turn vicious when the wank-wars kick in.

And I believe most fanficcers could deal with it--are willing to accept the possibility of being ficced, or whatever similar weirdness might get aimed at them. But it's not as blasé and simple as we sometimes like to make it sound; there's an uncomfortableness that we've decided to come to terms with.

[kaizoku]

But it's not as blasé and simple as we sometimes like to make it sound; there's an uncomfortableness that we've decided to come to terms with.

I agree. And thinking about that definitely does make me more sensitive to how people might feel to find RPF of themselves. I do think that if you put something about yourself on the internet, you are giving anyone and everyone the right to use that information. But there's some information (e.g. home address) that I don't think should be put in a story no matter whether it's about a fanfic writer or a famous author. But that depends too - if I'm a famous author, I'm more likely to expect and be able to take precautions if that happens.

[component]

Well,context is exactly what I was getting at actually. If someone writes a story about a sports star being raped, it's not necessarily a threat, so how is it a threat to a character that someone made up anymore than it's a threat to sports star?

[kaizoku]

I meant to just point out that people don't always write RPF out of love or to honor the person... otherwise we agree, I think. The next two paragraphs were more replying to the original poster. Sorry for the confusion!

[component]

ah ok. well of course there are always exceptions to the rule, which is exactly why i used the term "most" instead of "all". I rarely see someone ficing a character out of spite to the author lol if it does happen then that person should probably be out doing other things lol

[rowanmikaio]

One of my friends did an RPF of me to prove a point to me. At first, I'll admit, that it was highly disturbing to read someone else's RPF of me, involving two specificially sexual situations, especially because it was specific enough in things that all of my friends would know it was based on me.
Then, though, I realized that the sex wasn't the point... she had another moral in that story, and she wrote it as a hypothetical situation. It's still weird to know her very specific thoughts about my possible future sex life, but I'm okay with that.
But if she ever put that anywhere, I'd kill her if she didn't take off my name (or make it less obviously me).
I have to say, though, that she knows me personally. I don't think I'd care if it was someone I'd never met doing it for the sake of writing smut, or whatever. It's more the personal information that she had. I wouldn't want someone else incorporating *that*
So it's a very weird line for me, at least in that instance, but I think I could live with fic of myself and whatnot.