And another thing

[bubosquared]

Everything else aside, I have to say, I can't understand why any RPS writer would want the subject of their stories to read them. I mean, I would be completely weirded out by it, myself. I can't even write Nirvanaslash because Kurt looked too much like my brother!

But, yeah, my main anger and irritation right now isn't so much about the RPS thing, but about the stalkerish behaviour. Just because someone's a celebrity does not mean that it's okay to just go up to them and, quite basically, harass them.

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[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

Everything else aside, I have to say, I can't understand why any RPS writer would want the subject of their stories to read them.

I don't get it, either. I would be embarrassed to know that the creators of any of the fandoms I write had been reading my stories, never mind actual real people I've written about. The idea of, say, Robert Smith reading explicit sex scenes I've written about him and his bandmate makes me literally squirm, and not in a good way. I mean, it doesn't embarrass me enough to take down the stories, obviously, but you couldn't pay me enough to show them to the subjects or TPTB. What kind of ego could drive someone to think that their stories are so great that they're fit to not only represent an entire fandom, but to convince the people they're about that this fanfic thing is a-OK?

Just because someone's a celebrity does not mean that it's okay to just go up to them and, quite basically, harass them.

Dude. She mentioned that she told Ian's boyfriend to "make sure he checks out the site." Not only do you come up and pester these people while they're trying to have a nice dinner together, but an autograph just isn't enough? You have to demand that they look at your website as well? What the hell?

Getting mad again. Sheesh.

You are so right on...

[rakshi.livejournal.com]

Dude. She mentioned that she told Ian's boyfriend to "make sure he checks out the site." Not only do you come up and pester these people while they're trying to have a nice dinner together, but an autograph just isn't enough? You have to demand that they look at your website as well? What the hell?

Utterly contemptible.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. And not just because of the fanfic thing, but because I'm basically having sexual fantasies about them, and dude. Just too embarassing.

I think the only other time I've personally heard of someone who did a thing like this was someone showing S:AaBslash to the creators, but that was a) after they'd already said they knew of slash and were okay with it, and b) at a convention, not at a freaking dinner table.