A Question.

[kungfuwaynewho]

What are people's thoughts on Real Person Fiction?  Have you read any of it?  Does the very idea of RPF squick you out?  Do you think less of a writer who tries her hand at RPF?  Is there some RPF pairing you would want to read or even write but don't?  Do you have an unabashed love of RPF (and don't care who frakking knows)?

I'm not saying yet why I'm asking!  But I am curious.

Comments

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I don't read it, but I have friends who read and write it and generally just skip by, or snerk if the pairing is particularly apt or otherwise amusing in some way. The only way it really bothers me is in the fact that people... how to put this? Don't seem to understand that actors are actors?

And there are some really weird sections of fandom (Lord of the Rings and SPN fandom both come to mind...) that seem to a) take RPF waaaaaay too seriously and b) think it's okay to bring it up to the actors, which horrifies me beyond my ability to tell it. But that's a whole other kettle of fish, right there.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I think one of my very favorite pictures in the entire world is whoever managed to capture someone handing Dominic and Billy that one manip of the two of them. Oh God, their faces.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord. I may not have caught that particular story - at least I can't remember pictorial evidence, as much as I've read about them being horrified by such things. Poor guys. Even for actors who are used to weird fan reactions, that's gotta be a tough one to handle.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeee forever. I mean, poor guys, definitely, but their faces. Their little faces.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, Theban Band. I remember those. My first discovery of manips. Wow does LotR fandom bring back some bizarre memories...

...and yeah, those faces are just perfect. ♥

[hollywobbles.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA why I'm never going to be a celebrity I love it omg.

[(Anonymous)]

HA, did you know that someone gave the poor actors who played the Weasley twins in the HP movies a giant poster worshipping their Twincest?

Now THAT is a set of faces I'd have liked to have seen photos of after said gifting. :)

--Alyssa

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I think I saw a picture of that? I might be imagining it based on reading about it, though.