More blathering.

[bubosquared]

Like asilvahalo, I don't really believe I'm going to get sued. But if I do, it's going to be on my fucking head, people. Mine. Okay? I do not speak for the slash community, and I fucking refuse to be 'resonsible' for its well-being? Because communities bounce back from a lot.

I'm 'out' as a slasher and as an RPSer to my family, to my friends, to even my coworkers. I guess, yeah, I'm doing my part to make fanfic of all kinds more public. But you know, I think slash, even and especially RPS, is a lot less private than people would like to think. My coworker'd heard of it and come across it. Sex Pistols and Metallica fanfic has been publicised in Q Magazine. There's been numerous mentions of FPS and RPS in the press.

We are 'out', folks. And the sky hasn't fallen. Yet? Perhaps. In any way, it's not my job to hold it up.

Comments

[asilvahalo.livejournal.com]

See, the thing is, normal every day people think if RPS pretty much the same way they think of 13 year old girls writing stories about going to the prom with Justin Timberlake. It's clearly a fantasy written by somebody who's a little obsessed, but you know, whatever. And then they go about their lives. The only people, in my mind, who seem to care, are FPS-ers. Who somehow see what we're writing and what that previously mentioned 13 year old are writing as different. Which is kinda hilarious.

See, I'm totally cool with people who, you know, are morally opposed to RPS because of it's treatment of people as characters. Because I mean, I have a friend who used to write Curefic and stopped beause she was weirded out that she was treating Robert & co. as characters. And you know, that's all well and good, because it's a personal. moral. decision. And it mainly is just sort of a "I didn't like the way I was thinking about them." and so they stop, but they pretty much don't care if other people do it. However,t he majority of FPSers opposed to RPS seem to be so in the "you're gonna get us all in trouble" mindset. Which is stupid because, you know, RPS is so much more visible than FPS. *snark*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's like, I don't eat meat, but it doesn't bother me that other people do. Cause I'm me and everyone else has different moral codes than mine, you know.

It's the "You'll get us all into trouble' I have serious problems with, myself. It's like when feminists tell me I'm 'hurting the cause' by wearing short skirts to exams to take advantage of men's chauvinism. I will fight for what I believe in (and not merely for what others believe to be the good of a group I happen to belong to, like women or homosexuals or whatever), the way I think is best. I'm not resonsible for the world, yo. No one is.