I don't make a fuss, but I don't get it. When I was a teenager, I fantasized about Duran Duran, spinning stories at length with my cousin about how we'd met them and get to do all sorts of things with them. But we weren't telling or writing stories beyond self-insertion fantasies. We actually never wrote them down, in fact, just talked. Still, it was RPF I guess.
But we never made up stories where Nick Rhodes was hog-tied and strung up on stage with Simon, John, Andy and Roger brutally raping and torturing him. I know all RPF is not this kind of thing, but a chunk of it is. There are rapes, murders, pedophilia, torture, kidnappings about real people the writers claim to love...I can't wrap my head around that. One of my favorite "wtf is wrong with people" moments when was when someone elsewhere requested stories about Jensen Ackles using Misha Collins' infant son as a cock-warmer. I guess that person could write Dean Winchester diddling kids all day long if they wanted, and while I'd think they were a sick twist, at least it's not about a real person.
Philosophically speaking, maybe people can write that stuff because they don't see celebrities as actual real living human beings, which both is a relief (so writing the murder of Orlando BLoom's family means they're not really writing about *him*) and alarming, because of course they're real people.
Like I said, unpopular opinion given the popularity of RPF.
Re: ars_belli
I don't make a fuss, but I don't get it. When I was a teenager, I fantasized about Duran Duran, spinning stories at length with my cousin about how we'd met them and get to do all sorts of things with them. But we weren't telling or writing stories beyond self-insertion fantasies. We actually never wrote them down, in fact, just talked. Still, it was RPF I guess.
But we never made up stories where Nick Rhodes was hog-tied and strung up on stage with Simon, John, Andy and Roger brutally raping and torturing him. I know all RPF is not this kind of thing, but a chunk of it is. There are rapes, murders, pedophilia, torture, kidnappings about real people the writers claim to love...I can't wrap my head around that. One of my favorite "wtf is wrong with people" moments when was when someone elsewhere requested stories about Jensen Ackles using Misha Collins' infant son as a cock-warmer. I guess that person could write Dean Winchester diddling kids all day long if they wanted, and while I'd think they were a sick twist, at least it's not about a real person.
Philosophically speaking, maybe people can write that stuff because they don't see celebrities as actual real living human beings, which both is a relief (so writing the murder of Orlando BLoom's family means they're not really writing about *him*) and alarming, because of course they're real people.
Like I said, unpopular opinion given the popularity of RPF.