Post: When Fandom Worlds Collide

[jehane_writes]

In the words of Neil Young, off "Fork in the Road", "Truth is fiction, truth is lies, strange things happen when worlds collide..."Weird things happen when you're cycling through fandoms at hyperspeed so you can get back to actual work! You know how fandom seems multitudinous and labyrinthian at first blush? Then you run across familiar people

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[sophie_448]

OHHHH TSN. It's like ... lapped the FPS/RPS divide or something. Here's the thing for me. The movie is based on a book that was inspired by real events, but by no means intended to be a totally reliable accounting of the facts. I liked the movie as a story, and I enjoyed the characters played by Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg.

Of course I naturally have some curiosity about what really happened, but I DO NOT want to read about actual Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Because truth be told I know very little about them. And I'm always mildly squicked when I start reading a fic only to discover partway through that it's about the real people rather than the characters (which tends to come about because the fic references the movie coming out).

Honestly, it just doesn't work for me on a logical level to base your characterizations off the movie, and then work backwards and suppose that those characterizations can be applied to the actual people and then talk about how those people responded to their characterization in a movie upon which you based your writing in the first place! Does it make your brain hurt? It does mine.

Ummm ... yes. IDK, I have some thoughts. Way to go you for taking the high road, though, because I'm not sure I would have had that strength ;-)

[jehane_writes]

It was hard to take the high road! But IAAL before I am a fanfic writer, and a human being above all; also RPF raises enough questions about the ownership of a person's public image, and the right to freedom from prurient speculation and stanning. IMO, a person who didn't ask to be a public figure, a person who specifically values his privacy, has more basis to complain about being stanned and having fic written with his name attached to it.

Also, as you say, it's much more satisfying if you see this as fic based on the guys in the movie as portrayed by Garfield and Eisenberg.

I actually have questions of a legal nature that were raised by the movie (what allowed Zuck to selectively dilute Savarin's shares? Did he get issued class-B shares with specific in-built kickers, or does California state law allow for non-pari passu dilution or buyback (like Cayman and BVI jurisdictions?). But I figured it's be inappropriate for me to trouble Savarin with those queries. If I wasn't afraid it might out me as a fangirl, I'd sit down with US lawyers one of these days and have a TSN-related talk :)