every other word is uh-huh, yeah okay.

[olaf47]

So all my friends are doing the meme about unpopular fandom opinions they hold. I'm just using it as an excuse to have a discussion. I want to know what you all think about RPF.

Comments

[queer_theory]

I also look at RPF as character-based fanfic like any other. I don't know what these people are like. They are very much characters to me. That said, the RPF that I write and read is based around The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, in which people are playing characters who happen to have their real names.

[olaf47]

I guess I sort of think that any famous person is playing a character who has their name (though obviously not as much as Colbert). I mean they control what the public sees, they act the way they want the public to see them. In my mind. I guess.

Thanks for commenting!

[queer_theory]

I agree. I only mentioned the specific fandom I write in because some people make a distinction between it and other RPF.

[luminous_lu]

I'm all for RPF. We don't aim to make them do things, we're just writing what we perceive of them as characters, and mostly to enhance the fandoms. I'm part of a number of RPF communities (especially about Broadway people), and even though we write and laugh our asses off, we have the utmost respect for the real people, and like we say, we aim only to play a bit with them as characters, never as real people. :p

[olaf47]

Obviously! I mean it's not like I'm hoping any of the married people actually go have sex with their costars--that's not cool and I don't know them well enough to know if they would, but I respect them enough to think that they wouldn't.

And that's what I mean when I say that I admit there can be problems with RPF--if you don't respect the people or if you are actually thinking of them as real people, as "this is what they should do", then it's a little ridiculous.