Someday, I am going to make a post entirely free of capslock. When I do: call an ambulance.

[kalpurna]

• Lately, Pete has been spelling shit correctly in his blog posts - or, at least, there don't seem to be any accidental typos. THIS IS HUGE FOR ME, PEOPLE. Is it the iPhone??? Is it just that he found a real computer for once? I really hope it's the iPhone, because that means he'll keep doing it. (Maybe next: CAPITAL LETTERS. DARE TO DREAM.)

Comments

[dsudis]

Yeah, sorry, "selling" is sort of shorthand for this whole mental model I have of RPS (which is, basically, that there's the real Gerard who exists in the world as a real person, and then there's my Gerard doll that I play with, and the Gerard doll is something I 'bought' from Gerard, made of all the public-persona stuff he 'sells' - and it's not that I don't believe the stuff I buy - I wouldn't buy it if I didn't - but it's still all stuff he puts out there in a way that, say, his relationship with Eliza wasn't (which is why I don't have an Eliza doll, aside from the fact that, yeah, I wouldn't be all that interested in having one if it were for sale) and, wow, this is a very labyrinthine little parenthetical comment). And, no, I completely agree with you about fic being non-trivial, because between the amount of work I put into it sometimes and the fact that I kind of wind up understanding everything about the world through fic in some way or other, I'm right there with you.

My RPS lines, such as they exist, are mostly about who's asking for it and who's not, who's offering themselves as a persona and a fantasy object and who isn't. Gerard Way: asking for it. Pro hockey player: not asking for it. Moderately famous actor: maybe asking for it, maybe not. Anybody dating a member of My Chem: not asking for it. Ray Toro: answer unclear. And so on. So when I was first writing Gerard, I think I felt like AA might fall in not-asking-for-it territory, because it's not glamorous and it's not on-stage and whatever. Except then I realized that we only know about it because Gerard wants us to know about it and, you know, hell yes my Gerard doll is a recovering addict and in AA, so why not write about that as well as everything else? So yes.

...apologies if that was totally incoherent as well as tl;dr. *g*