I feel weird about it. And when I examine those feelings more closely, it's all rooted in writing indy fic. I've met and hung out with these people that I write slash about. It feels boundary-crossing to write anything that veers too close. I'm not friends with them, I don't claim to know them, but there was interaction on multiple occasions. On certain issues, I was emotionally involved and it got personal. So some lines had to be drawn. this actually makes like a whole metric fuckton of sense to me, because I hung out with some of the peeps I used to write too, and it got weird, and veered into that territory where now I'm like, "I REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOU PERSONALLY, PERSON I STAN FOR." It really does kind of crumble the magic
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It's funny that I've never articulated that to myself before. Like, I've talked at length about my stance and why I don't classify my fics as RPF, I don't think of them as RPF, but I've never delved into why I think that way. It makes sense and it's really obvious now that I've said it.
Oh lord yes, the backstage stuff is always more interesting than the actual onscreen storylines.
Like you can write fic acknowledging that wrestling is a staged production and kayfabe is not real, but avoid using actual real details?
That's pretty much how I see it. Like, I've written actual RPF with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, but in my head, it's their public persona I was writing, the narrative they established about themselves when they did publicity for the movie. It's Chris Pine playing Chris Pine playing Jim Kirk. I always want to keep it on that second level and never beyond that. Same thing with wrestling. It's Phil Brooks playing Phil Brooks playing CM Punk. I watched his documentary with yesdrizella while she was here, and sure it was "out of
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Oh lord yes, the backstage stuff is always more interesting than the actual onscreen storylines.
Like you can write fic acknowledging that wrestling is a staged production and kayfabe is not real, but avoid using actual real details?
That's pretty much how I see it. Like, I've written actual RPF with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, but in my head, it's their public persona I was writing, the narrative they established about themselves when they did publicity for the movie. It's Chris Pine playing Chris Pine playing Jim Kirk. I always want to keep it on that second level and never beyond that. Same thing with wrestling. It's Phil Brooks playing Phil Brooks playing CM Punk. I watched his documentary with yesdrizella while she was here, and sure it was "out of ( ... )
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