I know I may be asking for it here....
Ok...so...reading though my FList...
And on my we_love_alton a new member asked if anyone has links to Alton Brown fanfiction.
And my first response? RPF! EW! GROSS!
But...I stopped, thought about it, and posted this:
Lady_Erin: Real-Person-Fiction {RPF} (or the subgroup Real-Person-Slash {RPS}) tends to cause a knee-jerk reaction of love or hate.
While I can see why some people like it, I can understand why others really don't.
Personally? It's a SQUICK! issue for me - for the most part.
Somehow, it's squick inducing if the person is still alive. If they have been dead awhile, it's less so. More like 'realistic fiction' but only if done properly.
Tiassa:Yeah, I can see the historical-fiction type of thing if the individual is deceased, but if the person you're writing about could look up the story and read it then...yikes.
Lady_Erin: And even then - RPF tends to be 'I-met-him-OMGAWG-so-KWEEL!' where historical fiction (yep, just looked that up) tends to be more stroy-driven and looks at 'What-if' or telling about something that is a blank in their history.
And...that covers it. Kinda.
I mean...fanfic tends to get wanked on by professional writers because it is fanfic and therefore consider less. A few professional writers write both 'real' fiction and fanfic.
But...this real person fiction thing...it kinda makes me think...
Because on some level, aren't professional writers who write about historicial figures doing the same thing? And it's ok then. So is it just that the people in RPF are still alive or is it that RPF is seen as less respectful since the 'characters' tend to act a little (a lot) out-of-character? If so, what about Ira Levin's 'Boys from Brazil' (to grab an author off my nightstand) or other books of the like? So then is it just ok if we think of the person as a 'good guy'?
Thoughts? Comments? Tomatoes?
And on my we_love_alton a new member asked if anyone has links to Alton Brown fanfiction.
And my first response? RPF! EW! GROSS!
But...I stopped, thought about it, and posted this:
Lady_Erin: Real-Person-Fiction {RPF} (or the subgroup Real-Person-Slash {RPS}) tends to cause a knee-jerk reaction of love or hate.
While I can see why some people like it, I can understand why others really don't.
Personally? It's a SQUICK! issue for me - for the most part.
Somehow, it's squick inducing if the person is still alive. If they have been dead awhile, it's less so. More like 'realistic fiction' but only if done properly.
Tiassa:Yeah, I can see the historical-fiction type of thing if the individual is deceased, but if the person you're writing about could look up the story and read it then...yikes.
Lady_Erin: And even then - RPF tends to be 'I-met-him-OMGAWG-so-KWEEL!' where historical fiction (yep, just looked that up) tends to be more stroy-driven and looks at 'What-if' or telling about something that is a blank in their history.
And...that covers it. Kinda.
I mean...fanfic tends to get wanked on by professional writers because it is fanfic and therefore consider less. A few professional writers write both 'real' fiction and fanfic.
But...this real person fiction thing...it kinda makes me think...
Because on some level, aren't professional writers who write about historicial figures doing the same thing? And it's ok then. So is it just that the people in RPF are still alive or is it that RPF is seen as less respectful since the 'characters' tend to act a little (a lot) out-of-character? If so, what about Ira Levin's 'Boys from Brazil' (to grab an author off my nightstand) or other books of the like? So then is it just ok if we think of the person as a 'good guy'?
Thoughts? Comments? Tomatoes?