Meme: February 19: Generation Kill and the border of reality

[dsudis]

February 19: _whiskers asks, do you consider GK an RPF fandom? Why or why not?

Hmmm. Mostly yes--there are real guys with these characters' names, and it's their real lives I and my fellow GK fandomers are basing fic on. I personally certainly have written copious amounts of One Bullet Away fanfic under the banner of GK fandom

Comments

[mrsquizzical]

ha. that's amazing.

[dsudis]

Right?

[alethialia]

I've always landed in the FPF category, myself. The book is a journalist's interpretation/experience of the events and the men. The mini is David Simon's interpretation of the book. I've always found it telling that Alexander Skarsgard, in an interview, made the point to distinguish it as his version of Colbert. And then, of course, he purposefully didn't talk to rl!Colbert until after they were done filming, despite that Rudy facilitated contact between most of the actors and the men. That always seemed to me an interesting indication that we're not the only ones who struggle with defining what we do, even as you'd think his case is much more clear-cut.

But then, my general mode of thinking is that if you're not picturing/portraying the faces and bodies of the real people then it's not RPF.

And I'm still not over that Wright favorited your tweet. Wright loves subcultures, so I'm sure fandom-as-subculture totally hits him in his happy place.