I feel like even with fictionalised versions of either Nazis or serial killers I instinctively believe shipping/slashing them is in very poor taste. At the same time I wouldn't ban it, just side eye while I scrolled fast. I do think the real thing is beyond the pale though.
To comment on Conspiracy specifically:
It's no doubt partly the fact that we know ars_belli of old and thus read into her requests, but I find her prompts for fic about Reinhard Heydrich in particular troubling, because 1) it's so obvious she just fangirls him personally, and 2) he's played completely straight in the film. There's no hidden conflict there, or any of the things she's prompted for. He is 100% an ideological Nazi, committed to every one of his beliefs and plans. I'd find it easier to believe someone wanted genuine exploratory fic if they'd prompted for Doctor Stuckart, for example, who initially lulls the viewer into thinking he's the "good German" by being softly spoken and played by Colin Firth, and then you suddenly realise he's as viciously racist as anyone else, he just believes in doing things by the book, and wants the law to be observed. I'd read Yuletide fic about that, though I wouldn't request or write it.
Re: ars_belli
I feel like even with fictionalised versions of either Nazis or serial killers I instinctively believe shipping/slashing them is in very poor taste. At the same time I wouldn't ban it, just side eye while I scrolled fast. I do think the real thing is beyond the pale though.
To comment on Conspiracy specifically:
It's no doubt partly the fact that we know ars_belli of old and thus read into her requests, but I find her prompts for fic about Reinhard Heydrich in particular troubling, because 1) it's so obvious she just fangirls him personally, and 2) he's played completely straight in the film. There's no hidden conflict there, or any of the things she's prompted for. He is 100% an ideological Nazi, committed to every one of his beliefs and plans. I'd find it easier to believe someone wanted genuine exploratory fic if they'd prompted for Doctor Stuckart, for example, who initially lulls the viewer into thinking he's the "good German" by being softly spoken and played by Colin Firth, and then you suddenly realise he's as viciously racist as anyone else, he just believes in doing things by the book, and wants the law to be observed. I'd read Yuletide fic about that, though I wouldn't request or write it.