No, I wouldn't suppose that!
Some actors really do see "the guy up there on the screen" as being completely separate from themselves, and then go beyond that and realize their public personas in fan minds is also as artificial a creation.
And boys -- let's watch the swearing.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Theodosia - Dec 23, 2002 8:15:10 am PST #1927 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"
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2002 8:16:48 am PST #1928 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Some do, some don't, some'll have made peace with it, some won't.
But I don't think imagining for a living is tied causally to it.
Theodosia - Dec 23, 2002 8:18:59 am PST #1929 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"
I think you would be more likely to have to consider the issue, but then I'm skewed towards the "imagining for a living" experience.
Dana - Dec 23, 2002 9:10:07 am PST #1930 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Apparently the latest big deal is that someone shoved a Theban Band Merry/Pippin photomanip into the faces of Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd.
This fandom scares the fuck out of me.
Kristen - Dec 23, 2002 9:37:10 am PST #1931 of 10000
Michele T. - Dec 23, 2002 9:46:27 am PST #1932 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Oh, ew. Scary and ew.
Dana - Dec 23, 2002 9:47:36 am PST #1933 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Like Bill said, if this brings anything down on the head of the Theban Band, I will be one pissed-off girl.
Fay - Dec 23, 2002 9:49:36 am PST #1934 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
For the love of Mike.
t /gobsmacked.
Why would anyone do that? Why? I just - my mind is so far over the horizon into Boggleville that it may never be seen again. This I just do not get.
....nope, still boggled.
You know, I'm actually still fairly squicked by cut'n'paste photomanips as a concept. Which I can't account for, really, because logically it's not that different from appropriating an image and giving it suggestive text to accompany it. Or from writing the hot fictional character sex, or any form of RPF, sexual or otherwise. It's all boundary crossing of one sort or another. But the cut'n'paste faces onto shagging bodies - I do find this messes with my comfort zones. Even though I can appreciate the artistry and hotness.
None of which has any bearing on the breathtaking stupidity & rudeness of showing somebody photomanips of themselves having The Sex. I mean - hello? Earth to crazy-ass fan?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 23, 2002 9:52:02 am PST #1935 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I will be one pissed-off girl.
And I will be another.
Anne W. - Dec 23, 2002 10:09:35 am PST #1936 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
FayJay, I pretty much agree with you about the photo manipulations. The ones that are PG-13 or tamer are fine, but anything that is a hard R or above I find troublesome. Still photographs, to me, are more about the actor than the character, except in cases where makeup/costuming make it impossible to identify the actual human being.
Written fanfic is more about the characters, and the fact that it is not visual actually takes things one step further away from the actors who play the character. In other words, Alan Bates exists as the actor Alan Bates. I may also have an image in my mind of Hamlet as played by Alan Bates. Thirdly, there is Hamlet the character, who exists independently of any actor (or actress) who plays him. It is a bit different with TV fanfic, as a character is traditionally played by only one actor or actress, but I hope my point is reasonably clear.