I would LOVE such a discussion. Man, I miss good meaty fanfic meta that doesn't just end in 300 tumblr reblogs. Discussion would be nice.
See, I feel as if RPF fandom has had that talk basically forever, and it's sort of ongoing (there was a great analogy last year(?) on Slash Report about Levels Of Orange In Orange Juice vs. Orange Drink when it comes to RPF, and then, well, Patrick Kane and hockey RPF fandom this summer), but, like, people who are not in RPF fandom, but have found themselves in a fandom that is RPF have never really had to deal with this before? Like, SO MUCH OF HOLLYWOOD is blatant RPF, and some of the stuff they do just gets passed off as "what really happened" and that gives us some very interesting lies sometimes... anyway, I have rants as someone who has been in RPF fandom for a while, and watches the world Judge RPF Fandom As Perverts And Weirdos while conducting its own unacknowledged RPF fandom with much less navel-gazed morals/community standards. (ex: tabloids, and then we even get into "reality" shows).
As for that cumberbitches thing, that seems to be straight up actor fandom, people who are obsessed with the actor and want to see themselves in a relationship with them, or are reenacting tabloid culture. Doesn't seem to necessarily be the folks who ship him with Martin Freeman (although there's likely some overlap. LOTRPS had its share of tinhatters who truly believed in their pairings being HIDDEN BY THE MAN. Which gave us the eternal pastede on yay ;) ).
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See, I feel as if RPF fandom has had that talk basically forever, and it's sort of ongoing (there was a great analogy last year(?) on Slash Report about Levels Of Orange In Orange Juice vs. Orange Drink when it comes to RPF, and then, well, Patrick Kane and hockey RPF fandom this summer), but, like, people who are not in RPF fandom, but have found themselves in a fandom that is RPF have never really had to deal with this before? Like, SO MUCH OF HOLLYWOOD is blatant RPF, and some of the stuff they do just gets passed off as "what really happened" and that gives us some very interesting lies sometimes... anyway, I have rants as someone who has been in RPF fandom for a while, and watches the world Judge RPF Fandom As Perverts And Weirdos while conducting its own unacknowledged RPF fandom with much less navel-gazed morals/community standards. (ex: tabloids, and then we even get into "reality" shows).
As for that cumberbitches thing, that seems to be straight up actor fandom, people who are obsessed with the actor and want to see themselves in a relationship with them, or are reenacting tabloid culture. Doesn't seem to necessarily be the folks who ship him with Martin Freeman (although there's likely some overlap. LOTRPS had its share of tinhatters who truly believed in their pairings being HIDDEN BY THE MAN. Which gave us the eternal pastede on yay ;) ).