note to self

[emilybored]

Write long thing about why I write RPS later. Or rather what is it with me and two epic RPS OT3's.

It's not another defense of RPS rant, or a self-hating handbasket analysis.

Just, um... it's not at all about the smut for me, and it's convoluted, and it's early, and this is already proving to be a difficult day.

Comments

[fairestcat]

I'd be interested in seeing that, actually.

I just friended you because I've grown quite enamored of your KA RPS series. At the same time, I'm still somewhat conflicted in my own head about my attitude toward RPS. The one thing I'm sure of though, and I had this conversation with commodorified last night, is that the stuff I like--and the stuff I'm least likely to have trouble reading--are the stories where it's very clearly not just all about the smut.

Your fic is the RPS that I find myself reading and rereading the most often and it's because your Ioan, Clive and Keira have become people to me--distinct from the actors actually--fullly formed and interesting characters about whom I care.

[emilybored]

Honestly as much as I write the stuff I am conflicted too as noted vaguely in the post I finally wrote above. I can read a broader range of stuff than what I can stand to write for whatever reason, and my only real rule is that I treat my characters as honorable if flawed creatures. I loathe these fics with gratuitous personality flaws (oh like, heroin addiction for no other reason than allowing the author to feel edgy).

The fact is people have written this sort of stuff since forever -- I don't know anyone who didn't have notebooks full of it shared with friends back in junion high and high school, and that was fine, because it was private and among friends.

The Internet has, I think, changed the squick factor and the rules, but I'm not sure to what.