A discussion on RPS
Jun. 3rd, 2008 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsI've just had a rather interesting discussion with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lexalicious70 and I thought I'd open it up here.
First of all a history of me and RPS. Those of you who have been on my flist for a few years will know that RPS used to be a major squick of mine that I would avoid at all costs. I got into it thanks to a combination ofjacqui_hw telling me that Kate Bosworth broke up with Orlando Bloom because he was spending too much time with Sean Bean (I never found out if this was true but it amused me) and caz sending me some Bloom/Bean fic to read. This was back in the days when LotR was big.
I had my eyes half closed as I read my first RPS fic but damn me if I didn't like it. I read a few more under semi-protest and after that I was hooked (and made the transition to Bean/Viggo which was my primary OTP for quite a while)
Since then I've had no problems reading or writing it.
Today Lexi said she was surprised she'd never come across and James Marsters/Michael Rosenbaum RPS. I, correct me if I'm wrong, said that James fans weren't really into the whole RPS thing. I speculated it's because James is so accessible to his fans that people see him as a real person rather than a character. Certainly that was what always used to put me off RPS. These are real people.
The thing with LotR is that a lot of the actors were aware of the fic being written about them and even encouraged it. Maybe that's why I had less of a problem with it. I think a lot of Bandom is the same.
But I would never write RPS involving James, mostly because I've met him so many times it would be weird. Like writing about one of my friends or something (I'm not saying James is my friend but he's lost a lot of that objectivity and idealism. I've seen him in bad moods and upset, one of my friends wound up sat next to him on a plane and he was an asshole to her and apologised later)
So, what do you think? Does meeting an actor affect whether you would write RPS about them? Does it depend on whether they mind or not? I'm just curious.
I've never met anyone I've written RPS about so I can't say whether meeting Tom, Michael, Bean or Viggo would affect that. Maybe I'll find out in September if Michael doesn't cancel the con.
lexalicious70 and I thought I'd open it up here.First of all a history of me and RPS. Those of you who have been on my flist for a few years will know that RPS used to be a major squick of mine that I would avoid at all costs. I got into it thanks to a combination of
jacqui_hw telling me that Kate Bosworth broke up with Orlando Bloom because he was spending too much time with Sean Bean (I never found out if this was true but it amused me) and caz sending me some Bloom/Bean fic to read. This was back in the days when LotR was big. I had my eyes half closed as I read my first RPS fic but damn me if I didn't like it. I read a few more under semi-protest and after that I was hooked (and made the transition to Bean/Viggo which was my primary OTP for quite a while)
Since then I've had no problems reading or writing it.
Today Lexi said she was surprised she'd never come across and James Marsters/Michael Rosenbaum RPS. I, correct me if I'm wrong, said that James fans weren't really into the whole RPS thing. I speculated it's because James is so accessible to his fans that people see him as a real person rather than a character. Certainly that was what always used to put me off RPS. These are real people.
The thing with LotR is that a lot of the actors were aware of the fic being written about them and even encouraged it. Maybe that's why I had less of a problem with it. I think a lot of Bandom is the same.
But I would never write RPS involving James, mostly because I've met him so many times it would be weird. Like writing about one of my friends or something (I'm not saying James is my friend but he's lost a lot of that objectivity and idealism. I've seen him in bad moods and upset, one of my friends wound up sat next to him on a plane and he was an asshole to her and apologised later)
So, what do you think? Does meeting an actor affect whether you would write RPS about them? Does it depend on whether they mind or not? I'm just curious.
I've never met anyone I've written RPS about so I can't say whether meeting Tom, Michael, Bean or Viggo would affect that. Maybe I'll find out in September if Michael doesn't cancel the con.