Soapbox post ahoy!

[lemon31]

  I'm not sure how many people on my flist are aware that I've started writing RPS, more specifically Pinto, because I haven't posted any of it here yet. Anyway, now seems as good a time as any to put my rambling thoughts into more coherant sentences.

So, it is a truth universally acknowledged that one of the most heated topics of debate in

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[running_hot]

I completely agree, and I don't really think this is worth a TL;DR because it's important for people in the fandom to read. RPF is always going to be a part of the world, as long as our current news media exists - haven't we all read those news articles where people say that two celebrities would be 'the cutest couple'? The pictures that generate children of two celebrities just because people wish they were together? These stories are, in and of themselves, RPF, because they're not true. However, sending RPF to the celebrities themselves is akin to sending panties to them - disgusting, unnecessary, and embarrassing for everyone involved (which, in this case, includes the whole fandom). Let's keep it in our shared fantasies, folks.

-steps off of shared soapbox-

[lemon31]

You're welcome to share my soapbox anytime =]

Rather off topic, but ZQ looks particularly ravishing in your icon and I watched the interview with him that you posted in your journal. An hour of awesomeness it was indeed. Didn't think it was possible to love that man any more ♥

[running_hot]

I have that interview bookmarked, I watch it when I run out of things to do. It's truly epic! <3

[lemon31]

No problem =]
I've never really suffered with any moral dilemmas about enjoying RPF, but it kinda helps to put it all out there ♥

[cazthehobbit]

Personally I think RPF/S is fine when kept within the boundaries of fiction and fun - some of the stuff I've read about people giving the subjects of their fic RPF is creepy and intrusive but like you say, when it stays within fandom I don't think there's a problem with it at all.

In some fandoms I've been involved with I've actually found the RPF/S to be less intrusive compared to some fans who aren't involved in fic or shipping but actually stalk or at least take an unhealthily obsessive interest in the celebrities.

[lemon31]

You've actually made a very interesting point there that RPF is less intrusive which I hadn't considered that before. When there are so many people who obsess over a celebrity's real dating choices it's ridiculous for anyone to judge those who write stuff that is only a figment of their imagination.

[tinocka]

I have never cared about RPF before Star Trek (read: before Pinto), but while I found it a little disturbing, I felt people should be free to write and read it. Now I love my Pinto fics and it turned from "quilty pleasure" to just "pleasure" some time ago. Fanfiction is great. We would fantasise about these people anyway, right? So why not share it?

I completely agree on the posting-it-to-celebrities issue. I would never ever do it. It has to be really awkward for the celebrities, especially if these fics cut a little too close to reality... or too far from it.

Also, I love my tinhat :D

[lemon31]

It's almost the same for me: Pinto is the first RPF ship I've really cared about and I love it far too much to allow any of the haters out there to ruin it for me. Fanfiction is what makes a good fandom awesome and the Trek fandom has some of the best authors writing for it =]