023. Well.

[lotrspnfangirl]

I'm in a few fiction groups on facebook and aomeone asked "What do you feel about RPF?" Now, this is a ff.net group so I just said I write both.

Well.

People exploded about it!! But this guy called me out personally;



I didn't respond and don't plan on responding. But why ask the question if you don't expect a multitude of answers? And I personally don't think fanfiction in any sense is wrong, (maybe I am biased) but he still made me feel like shit.

Comments

[elwarre.livejournal.com]

I imagine it would be weird if thousands of people were writing stories about fake-me. But "fake-me" is kind of the operative term here. No RPF author pretends anything other than the most superficial of connections between their characters and the actors. We borrow their looks, maybe their relationships, and sometimes a few character traits fandom has given them (Jensen loves coffee but is grumpy in the morning; Jared's basically a big puppy dog). No one thinks you're writing a story about Jared's actual life.

I think this is part of the reason authors get nervous about sites like goodreads. There are expectations and understandings within fandom that don't always translate to the world at large.

I'm sorry this guy was such a jerk to you. :(

[lotrspnfangirl.livejournal.com]

I think RPF gets a very bad rep... People don't understand that we're not just writing awful stories about actors and trying to pass it off as true. One thing they kept saying was, "How would you like someone writing about you being a rapist or getting raped?" and I wanted to ask if that's seriously all they thought RPF was about?! Obviously, I've written some angsty and questionable stuff before... but like you said, it stays in the fandom and I don't try to pass it off as a true story at all!

He was a jerk. And I've blocked the post because every time someone commented I got pissed off all over again. Though, more people came out of the wood work after my comment (I was the first to say I wrote RPF) and took my side and said they wrote it too so that was nice.