Hunt [9]. In it, we follow the characters from Star Trek when they are swapped with their real life actor counterparts; there were cameos by 'Gene' Roddenberry and 'Fred' Phillips, the make-up man. One fan writes: ""Overshadowed" has drawn the fire of several of my correspondents, and no doubt you have already received adverse criticisms of it. You see, Jonathan was very sensitive about being 'overshadowed' by the character of Barnabas. Some people were cruel enough to tell him they were fans of Barnabas Collins, not him, and he was deeply hurt by these comments.
Of course the writers, not knowing him as we long-time fans do, just wrote it as a clever story, but we hope he never sees it. In it, Tom Baker walks off the set for the last time as Peter Davidson takes on the role of the Doctor. As Baker walks home, he finds a police box, steps in, and is transported to the Doctor Who universe.
In that story, Mark Hamill loses his temper and kicks around the foam Yoda character. Very few people had any trouble with these stories -- they were gen and humorous. Indeed, Kathy L. Luminous Times, a shared universe , was was created during and featured the members of U2 mixed with other media characters.
Blake's 7 and The Professionals also had RPS fandoms, but writings based on these actors rarely appeared in zines , or the circuit , except in cases where the characters and actors were meeting. There were Moody Blues fan communities and Beatles fan communities, only tangentially connected to media and slash fandom at the time. A Metallica fannish community started in the 80s, but their fanworks, for some reason, didn't make it into mainstream slash fandom.
In , a fan registered her fears and displeasure about RPS in the Professionals fandom with a comment that was in regards to Death on the to Birkenhead , a circuit RPS tale which caused a great deal of fannish discussion, most of it negative. Some people have ethical and moral qualms about writing fan fiction about real people, even when those people have very public personas. There have been heated and intense discussions about this topic in fandom; these continue to crop up periodically, even though overall the pro-RPF position has become dominant in media fandom.
For these reasons and others, RPF remained largely underground in media fandom until around One basis for it staying underground may have been the reaction of actress Tori Spelling and her lawyers to a piece of Forever Knight fanfiction, written in the mid's, that included her as a character. The lawsuit was averted, but the result was very strict rules forbidding the inclusion of any real people in stories posted to lists hosted on the psu.
A lot of fans remembered what a near-miss that was for a long time, and many new lists forbade RPF of any sort as a precaution, keeping "actor fic" largely underground for several more years.
Rather than discussing the merits of the genre they focused on how the "live" nature of the fandom tabloid reports, celebrity activities created highs and lows. An example of a very explicit self-insertion fic featuring George Michael of the musical group "Wham" is First Fantasy.
The interest in popslash was one fandom that brought the genre into higher visibility. Ironically, fanfiction. It was the internet that pushed RPF into greater visibility. The growth was so exponential that the culture that had been transmitted was swamped by the newbies. And everybody felt like they had just lost control of their culture. Because in the past, you'd brought people into fandoms and cons a few at a time, so if you had a con with a hundred people, and you had ten new people, this was fabulous, but the ten new people didn't get to define what the con was.
As opposed to having a con with a hundred people and having a hundred thousand people suddenly show up. You can't control that. And I think that there was a sense that everything was out of control, and that none of the assumptions that had come to be central to the culture could be taken for granted anymore.
One key example here would be Real Person Fic. Because for a long time, I guess growing out of conversations like those with the actors in the mid '80s, there was a very clear sense amongst the fandom, "We're writing about the characters, we're not writing about the actors.
And people enjoyed crossing that line maybe, but they still would pass the stories to their friends, they didn't publish them in zines. There was an assumption that there was a line.
When everything slam-dunked the Internet, that assumption went out the window. And suddenly, people were writing stories about real actors as if they were characters with no sense that there could be a line.
And I think, say, the old members of the community were looking in horror and thinking, you know, "Oh my God, they don't understand. Although RPS was on the rise, most pairings were rare without a huge fandom and infrastructure in place. That made the RareSlash mailing list a place that was destined for clashes between RPS fans and opponents.
After a discussion about ' Tallislash and Musicianslash and how to rationalize it', starting on January 17, , the list owner announced on January 24 that "I will from now on allow realpeopleslash on the list, IF and only IF it is properly labelled.
You have been warned. As the number of RPF fans grew, and Livejournal allowed fans to move away from moderated mailing lists, major fandom opposition to the existence of RPF ebbed. Meta discussions shifted more to the form and content of the genre.
The Social Network fandom illustrates the intertwined layers possible with RPF, where the characters in the book and movie are themselves real people while the actors themselves have fans, so fanworks are generally based on a mixture of fiction and what reality has been disclosed or discovered. However, even after RPF gained wide acceptance in the late s, many fans remained strongly opposed to its existence: "I find " Wincest " to be a preposterous concept and the public distribution of RPS or RPHet, if that exists to be crossing a line that makes me want to deny being part of fandom if anyone asks.
Having amazingly sweaty arm pits. Joe: Dude, its raining outside and and your pitts are hella sweaty. An interactive social activity for people with the ability to write and improvise. Sadly, roleplaying is being invaded by people who can't write OR improvise OR follow common rules of etiquette. By the way, roleplaying is a game. Anyone who thinks that it relates directly to real life any more than, say, Crazy Eights does might want to have their head examined.
Short version, it's two or more people writing a story together. Here's the long version: RP stands for Role Play.
It's a type of writing which usually happens between two or more people, and it is notoriously hard to finish a single story before starting a new one. Each person takes on one central character as their character, and then accepts responsibilities for several or many others, depending on how many people are participating in the RP. However, the more people, the harder it is to keep organized and controlled. Traditionally best and easiest between two people, usually taken on as a way of bonding between two writers.
One person starts, the other replies, the first replies to the reply, etc. Often taken on in the writing community between two people who are close friends, or else is used as a way for writers to get used to another person's style. When the two people participating in the RP know one-another very well, it's often possible to distinguish what their reply to a certain situation will be, and can therefore be anticipated and detailed before it even happens. Manners in an RP are actually fairly complicated.
Here are the top five main rules that pretty much everyone obeys when it comes down to it The first and most basic rule is that another person's characters are practically sacred. You are issued your own characters, and you are allowed to get indignant if someone else tries to mess with them. In the homoerotic world of K-pop fan fiction, how far is too far? You might also like.
Log in to select media account. Social comment? Over the years, RPF fandom has significantly grown and expanded, from musicians to TV actors to movie actors to sports fandom to reality show people. Fanfiction is, essentially, seen by the majority of fandom as a legit creative outlet for aspiring writers. It is the fans' way of exploring the source text and expressing their feelings for the characters they love.
Yet a lot of people in fandom still hit a barrier of LOL NO when it comes to RPF, citing ethical reasons or just being plain uncomfortable with the idea. I'm not going to rehash them here, you can always hit a quick google search or explore Fanlore for days and weeks. Anyone who's ever been in fic fandom knows there is much more to fanfiction than just simply the satisfaction of sexual fantasy, judging by the incredibly vast variety of fic out there.
It is incredibly difficult to categorise them all, but in regards to RPF, I have found most of them to fall into 3 general categories an oversimplification perhaps, but this is how I see it : a. Fanfiction written because the author has a story to tell : In which the author is a story-teller with full-blown plots and world-building, and they place Real People into their created world as characters.
Personal appearance, superficial characteristics, and general perceived personality traits remain the same or similar to their Real Life counterparts, but they are essentially characters in a story. This is usually the case with Alternate Universe AU fics. This kind of fanfiction can also be called "casting fic" where the analogy is the author is essentially making a movie and casting their favourite Real People as actors.
For me, anyway, an rps character is so much emptier as a signifier than an fps character that I might as well call him an empty signifier. An rps character is the black pebble. We then fill up this character with signifieds and turn him into a full and replete sign. Fanfiction written to fulfill a personal fantasy : This isn't restricted to just sexual fantasy. A very popular form of this type of fanfiction is self-insert fics, where the author writes out their fantasies about meeting and being in a relationship with the celebrity.
Or just about going on crazy adventures over the rainbow with the celebrity, it depends. The second popular form of this type is of course fantasies about this celebrity being in a relationship with another celebrity, often of the same sex. This will be further discussed in the Slash section. Fanfiction written as an exploration of a persona the author is interested in an expression of love : I'm going to take a few steps back here to emphasise this word: PERSONA The thing about RPF is: there is no way for you to know whether the "source text" is genuine.
For FPF fandoms such as books or TV shows, the source text is pretty black and white: yep that character is an asshole with the emotional depth of a teaspoon, yep that character really tragically one-sidedly loves his bff, etc.
The source text is predetermined as the "canon" by the original author. In the case of RPF, the "source text" gets a little muddy. What percentage of these things are scripted, played up, jokes, lies, or plain misinterpretation by fans?
Fans are just observers trying to interpret this very choppy, very unreliable source text. This is the inherent design failure of observation as a research method: interpretation is subjective, there is always the presence of observer bias where the observer twists what they see into what they understand. In the end, what the fans see the celebrity as is a Persona, not the real person.
Their own interpretation makes up their own "headcanon". The third type of RPF fanfiction is fics that explore this Persona as an expression of love. I feel this quote perfectly sums up this 3rd type: "But I do, some of the time, love them. While I'm writing about them, I do, because I write them in a certain way, a little more thoughtful than they probably are, a little more genuine, a little more confused.
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