FWIW, I have several real people as characters in my alternate history, and I've never thought of it as writing RPF, though I do feel a certain need to respect their memory.
Not that that's stopping me from gleefully torturing them whenever the plot warrants. And I'm about to write my first sex scene with a real person. For now I'm discreetly fading to black, but it wouldn't surprise me if by the end I'm writing play-by-plays for him. It's not like there's anyone who can tell me if I got it wrong...
Two hundred years may well be it.
I mean, it's not like she's around to Google herself and then put quotes from stories found up on her MySpace or the MySpace-like sites of her friends, as has happened in Bandom recently. She's long dead! She'll never know! She'll never break the fourth wall!
it's not like she's around to Google herself and then put quotes from stories found up on her MySpace or the MySpace-like sites of her friends, as has happened in Bandom recently
Huh.
It's just so
weird
when the objets-du-fandom act even more stupid-fandom-tricks than the fans.
It's just so weird when the objets-du-fandom act even more stupid-fandom-tricks than the fans.
Twenty-something metrosexual indie boys are apparently occasionally tickled pink to find stories about them licking their close male friends. It means someone is paying attention to the fact that they exist, dontcha know?
And there's probably some gratification in knowing that someone's writing down sexual fantasies about you ....
there's probably some gratification in knowing that someone's writing down sexual fantasies about you ....
I cannot imagine that mindset. Not a whit.
Twenty-something metrosexual indie boys are apparently occasionally tickled pink to find stories about them licking their close male friends.
It's very strange when you're five feet away from them at a club and thinking, "Oh god, I know people who write porn about you."
I cannot imagine that mindset. Not a whit.
Me either. It would creep me out.
It must be a guy thing, because I don't find this surprising or unusual at all. If I was unfamiliar with the genre (which I imagine is the case with most indie boys, or people in general), I'd find it hi-larious that someone was writing porn about me!
