Comments | katekat1010: A turning point is coming...

katekat1010

A turning point is coming...

Sep 05, 2015 14:45

In a little more than a month I'll be turning 40. Most of my friends are in their late 20s, so it's a weird place to stand socially. I'm considering throwing myself a fantastic 40 party with a kind of boozy alice-in-wonderland type theme, but we'll see if I change my mind 50 times between now and then or not ( Read more... )

rpf, meta

Comments 5

seldomifever September 7 2015, 13:32:24 UTC

Yahoo groups? You old! :P

But I'm even older

katekat1010 September 7 2015, 19:35:45 UTC

ha! but yeah i got into fandom really late (at least comparatively) since I was in my late 20s... so i only heard about the preyahoo times from fan studies people!

thismaz September 7 2015, 15:23:39 UTC

Purely personal disclaimer: I am totally not into RPF.

Sparrow2000 pointed me at this post (and the fact that she had to made me wonder why I had not friended you years ago, because I love your art and particularly love the piece you gifted me with) and I read it before I went to look at the original hockey related post. I then did go and read the hockey post and, at first, I thought you were being a bit hard on that poster, when you said And your post didn't actually own up to the issue that occurred in reality that you said you were addressing. You didn't use the word rape ... until the third to last paragraph because it seemed they were laying out the background and the landscape of their attitude to RPF. But then I got to that third to last paragraph, and the last sentence of that paragraph, and I came to a screeching halt. Because the question That’s what you bump on?! was so full of incredulity that I was left dumbstruck ( ... )

katekat1010 September 7 2015, 20:02:23 UTC

Hi!! And absolutely friend away! I know, all our posts are dwindling in frequency, but I still pay for my space here because i do sometimes have things to say, and I'm always happy for new (though also old, because really, we've been interacting in concentric circles that intersect for years!) friends!

And thank you for engaging too. I definitely gave a lot of thought to the RPF meta, and part of it is that my own engagement with RPF different from the meta-writer's but I've noticed similar tendencies with RPF around actors who play fictional characters - that they really are a fusion between the two. And I was sympathetic to the way in which she was narrating her history. And yet, a public real figure committed a pretty heinous act against someone else and she did get pretty dismissive at the end.

But, again but, as I read the first few comments I realised I am in a different world. Because to me, while the characters are just characters and I have no problem playing with them, the actors and players are people and they live in ( ... )

thismaz September 8 2015, 09:02:59 UTC

Inconsistent characterization happens in series shows (or from movie to movie, or even within a novel)But when reading a character in a book, the reader is often inside the character's head. I see a fundamental difference between that and seeing a character on film or TV, where the viewer is watching the character from the outside. In that respect, there is a strong resemblance between the TV character and the real-life celebrity. The difference is that the celebrity may drop the script, because no one can live a script 24/7 ( ... )