Inspiration is a bitch
So what do you do when you've got an idea for what's pretty much original slash, and don't want to write it under your fannish name because it's kind of based on an RPSy rumour you heard, but you would never want that rumour to be associated with the people you heard it about, particularly as it's a fucked-up one and very unlikely to be true? It'd be libellous as shit and untrue, and the story itself would be another taboo-breaking one of the sort of stuff that usually is Not Something Anyone In Their Right Mind Would Approve Of.
...I hate even being this vague about it, but I'm torn. I actually have this beautiful--and shocking, but still crazily beautiful--story in my head and I even have phrases, images, visuals, everything ready for it. I really want to write it, and it really wants to come out, but people would immediately read it as RPS, because even if the names are changed, it can't be divorced from the context of the rumour and the people the rumour is about (a handful of people would immediately latch onto that because they'd recognise the rumour). Even if in my head, they're OCs anyway and it's all entirely fictional. And I couldn't write RPS of those people anyway because I don't know them well enough. And yet people would read it as shitty, libellous RPS by a depraved bitch. When that'd be missing the whole point.
WHAT DO I DO?
P.S. I guess I can start talking about the idea in comments if you guys can give me any ideas on how to get away with it, but I'm so... argh. I'm squirming even now because I feel jinxing it.
P.P.S. AND IT REALLY IS BEAUTIFUL AS SHIT, GUYS.
...I hate even being this vague about it, but I'm torn. I actually have this beautiful--and shocking, but still crazily beautiful--story in my head and I even have phrases, images, visuals, everything ready for it. I really want to write it, and it really wants to come out, but people would immediately read it as RPS, because even if the names are changed, it can't be divorced from the context of the rumour and the people the rumour is about (a handful of people would immediately latch onto that because they'd recognise the rumour). Even if in my head, they're OCs anyway and it's all entirely fictional. And I couldn't write RPS of those people anyway because I don't know them well enough. And yet people would read it as shitty, libellous RPS by a depraved bitch. When that'd be missing the whole point.
WHAT DO I DO?
P.S. I guess I can start talking about the idea in comments if you guys can give me any ideas on how to get away with it, but I'm so... argh. I'm squirming even now because I feel jinxing it.
P.P.S. AND IT REALLY IS BEAUTIFUL AS SHIT, GUYS.