Shrift, you weren't supposed to see that.

Well, the hysterical blindness doesn't seem to be bothering me today... heh.

What can I do to make it up to you?

Well, you're under the weather, so I can't be as unrepentant and cruel as I'd normally like... and the stories I've found thus far have been frightening in the way that has deep sapphire eyes and questionable grammar.

Somewhere, Jesus is weeping.

PMM, I haven't got around to this one myself yet, but a friend recced this the other day, and I've read other stuff by the same author, which is resonably good.

That help?

And if you don't mind joining a mailing list on Yahoo to get at the archieves (it hasn't made it to the website yet), she's just posted a, um, intresting Willow/Aragorn story. Here.

Heh. I'll check it out when I get home.

(SA can tell you I spent last night looking for the worst stuff possible on adult fanfiction dot net. Umm. And by worst, I mean... well, don't even want to think about it, because you ain't seen squick until you've seen some of the things up there.)

Willow/Aragorn?

Colour me cynical. Although I must admit I loved one Smallville/LotR piece by Shalott. Bwah!

Gosh, having one of those job-things really cuts into your discussion time. :-)

Sorry to have been a cause of dissension. I was in a bit of a pre-Xmas funk yesterday and that may have made me overshoot the goal of trying to lay out my particular take on the conceptual issue of RPF/RPS in the spirit of sharing rather than condemning. It is an issue that I have personally wrestled with quite a bit.

I made a post to the LJ discussion, but it hasn't been released yet because it's anonymous.

Out of interest, how did you first get into the RPF thing?

Honestly, it's brand new and it's a side effect of my Eminem obsession, but I've been reading a lot of PopSlash and I love it. I expect I'll end up reading LOTRPS as well.

I've been reading fan fiction since Quantum Leap days and I've never had the slightest compulsion to pick up the pen (or keyboard) and write some until now.

Is it just a straightforward thing for you, then, writing the RPF? Because I find that it does my head in in a way that writing fictional people doesn't. I mean, the fictional people don't exist. I can know them totally and utterly with the same degree of authority as the show's writers, if I do my research.

See, the reason it does your head in is the reason I love it so much. I can't know Eminem or Justin Timberlake totally and utterly and that's what makes them so fascinating. There's no canon as such. I can't be "Jossed" as it were. Maybe this sounds lazy, I dunno. But for me the fascination is the things written in between the lines in all the interesting things that get said about celebrities. My very first story was based on two conflicting bits of information about a chance meeting at the VMAs between Justin Timberlake and Eminem. Justin says Eminem was nice to him, respectful. A tabloid reports the opposite, that Eminem devastated him with his mean comments. So what's true? It gives me a place to conjecture and I find the conjecture to be entertaining. I know that as much as I know about Eminem, I don't know the whole story and that's why he fascinates me in a way fictional characters don't. Also, slashing Eminem is just poetic justice when it comes right down to it ;)

As to the stuff I write which actually places him in a fictional world, that kind of thing really trips my trigger. The story I posted to Silverlake, Something Real, came about because I decided it would be interesting to take someone who is enough of a fanboy to dress up in a Robin costume for a video and who refers to superheroes in a number of his songs and place him into this fictional universe and see it from his angle, see how he reacts to it. I love the Angelverse, but I never felt like I had an angle on it that would give me a reason to sit down and write a story and say something that other people weren't saying. Writing Eminem into that universe was my angle. Same goes with the Faith/Eminem fics and one of those incidently was also based on tabloid reportage about Marshall buying presents for his bodyguards (true, untrue? who cares!).

I may have to post some more thoughts about this to my LJ later. Sigh. I'm avoiding work right now.

Okay, here's a non-RPS question: Do you have to actually watch Smallville to get the fic? I've been getting poked and prodded about it and figure I could use another fandom to read in. (Note the use of the word "read", as in not to write.) But I don't think I want to commit to watching the show.

Thoughts? Recs? Anyone?

....stumbling back to thread

Okay, I've been reading dueSouth and I just thought, for no particular reason, that it might be a good idea to read some HP fic, since I haven't read very much HP fic and yet appear to be writing a fuck off, big-ass piece of Dracofic.

I can, it turns out, be flustered and squicked with remarkable ease - but it's the indelicacy of the title that did it, though.

Yes, let's all take a moment to appreciate the multiplicity of my standards. I am Hypocricy!Gal. Hear me whine.