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So I'm having a number of ideas about essay type things I want to write about slash and slash fandom and the likes, and I'm thinking "Hm. I'd like these to get a wider audience, get people to discuss this with who aren't on my friends list, and I as myself "Where?" Basically, there's two options: Fanfic Symposium, and CABS.

The Symposium was nixed right away, because their intelectually superior attitude irritates me. I love discussions and meta-discussions and an academic approach to things, but they take it a step too far for me. And, well, any article I'd submit would have references to or examples from RPS, and I just know a number of people would concentrate on that rather than on my actual point, and a lot of them wouldn't even read it because of that. So, x-nay on the FS.

CABS? I seriously considered it. I like a lot of what they're saying, but some of the things they say rub me the wrong way, and. I dunno. I don't think I want to put my stuff on there, and that's even assuming I could do it under my own name, because Idon't want to take on a pseud for this. (They have a point, of course. I know damn well that if you're having a discussion about something writing-related, there's always gonna be people who will turn the discussion from whatever the point is to the flaws in your own writing. And trust me, i have big issues with that, and even bigger ones with the idea that if you're not a writer, your opinion is worthless. But at the same time, I'd feel as if I were hiding, and I don't want that.)

So, yeah. Anyone know a place where I could put up stuff like Ten Things Not To Do With A Sex Scene and a rant about dialects and dialogue and things like that?

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I'm not sure if I agree with this, if only because I've recently started to realise how many people in the "real world" have public personas, and you'd have to at least triple it if you were an actor or any kind of celebrity. I don't think it's necessarily less than with musicians.

Mmmmyyyessss, that's true, but the way I see it is, it's much easier for an actor to stay out of the public eye, so to speak. What actors "sell" is (or should be, at least) their acting, their roles, their characters and movies. With musicians, their "stage persona" is part of what they sell, and that "sp" stretches out into all public appearances, usually. Of course, most actors nowadays have their own public persona, but there's a subtle difference which is probably all in my own little head.

Don't mind me, I like to hear myself think.

Yes, it would be nice if they researched, maybe at least asked someone who was there, if not you personally.

Indeed. Or if they'd joined the list and gone back in the archives to actually read a few messages -- or actually, more than just a few msgs, as I suspect they did. If they'd read the majority of the discussion and gotten a better idea of what the actual opinions were like, they'd not have made a fool of themself.

(Hey, I wonder if I can sue for libel in name of the list. Ha! That'd be funny.)

Mmmmyyyessss, that's true, but the way I see it is, it's much easier for an actor to stay out of the public eye, so to speak.

Oh, yes, I agree there. If they want to, of course. I'll even admit that I had second and third thoughts about writing RPS about Edward Norton because he keeps himself so private, and the one I did do was because he was literally the only possibility to do that particular story with. I'm not sure I'll ever write anything else about him. I never say never, but it'll have to be a very persistent idea.

Anyway, that's my long-winded agreement that yes, there's a subtle difference.

How I tend to look at it is: Do the actors in question really appeal to me together outside of their roles? If I can say yes, then I can decide if it's possible to write them.

Then again, musicians have to really interest me outside of their music to write them too.

And then there are the FPS people who seem to want time too...especially the brand new ones. Why did Matt have to ruin his record of never being character-slashy in a movie that doesn't have Ben in it (that isn't The Talented Mr Ripley)?

Indeed. Or if they'd joined the list and gone back in the archives to actually read a few messages

I get the feeling that they are prolific slash writers/list members. I wouldn't be surprised if they were already on RS at the time.

(Hey, I wonder if I can sue for libel in name of the list. Ha! That'd be funny.)

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