Indeed - but the only distinction I've been used to making between Real People Fic and Real People Slash is that one is specifically homoerotic (which doesn't necessarily mean sexual or explicit) whereas the other is a blanket term for all Real People Fiction, Heterosexual or Homosexual, pornographic or mundane.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Fay - Dec 22, 2002 6:27:31 pm PST #1883 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 22, 2002 6:29:46 pm PST #1884 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
OK, it's not that I don't *at all*, but I do personally believe that distinction, when put in any sort of terms of continuum to be very, very dangerous. Not the fun kind of dangerous. The upsetting kind.
Like I said. IJS.
Michele T. - Dec 22, 2002 6:34:28 pm PST #1885 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
How so? I'd like to understand your point.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 22, 2002 6:35:42 pm PST #1886 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I think I've said it over and over, today but mostly the first time I was around for the RPF argument here, in the old PPO thread at WX. So, forgive me, but I said I was gonna stop yapping and I will.
Theodosia - Dec 22, 2002 6:38:04 pm PST #1887 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sorry, I wasn't here for that argument, so didn't realize you'd gone all over this ground before.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 22, 2002 6:43:29 pm PST #1888 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
And I've got no problems at all with retreading old ground! I am Reiteration Girl. As Michele, actually, knows. But I started feeling like I'd said enough for today and everybody was kind of delicately coughing into their hands and going "why won't she shut up".
I mean, I'd said my argument, and other people said theirs, and even though I still run with my same point of view, I'd run out of new things to say yet. To just reiterate my own argument would only, I thought, annoy people.
Connie Neil - Dec 22, 2002 6:47:17 pm PST #1889 of 10000
brillig
There are no old arguments, Liz, only old audiences. And you've got a new one, so go for it.
Fay - Dec 22, 2002 6:48:11 pm PST #1890 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Aye, doll - preach your socks off.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 22, 2002 7:13:41 pm PST #1891 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Well, this bit is still very similar to something I said ages ago at WX-- not *much* has changed. I dunno.
Connie Neil - Dec 22, 2002 7:51:17 pm PST #1892 of 10000
brillig
I read your piece, Liz--must have missed it before--and I can tell you've thought about it and stand by it. But I think it's like Buddhism for me: I understand people believe firmly in it, but I'm missing the brain chip that does more than academically appreciate Buddhism. I never try to sway people from deeply felt beliefs (or I try not to), it's the primary sin in my book. If we can come to the point where we can both say, "You have valid points, peace be on your house," then it's better than a lot of such conversations end up.