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Ponderosa, goddess of 1x2x1, has done PotC fanart. Go. Look. Drool. Especially look at the OT3 one. Jack looks so pleased with himself.
I have nearly finished reading an absolutely wonderful book called The Pyrates, by James MacDonald Fraser. All of y'all, go and check this baby out of your local library now. It's sort of like what PotC might have been if it were written by Terry Pratchett (and didn't have the undead skeleton pirates), and is screamingly funny.
There's been a big todo lately on several of the ljs/lists of some of the people who have friended me over RPS and RPF in general. One very talented writer even left pirategasm over it *sniffles* So I figure I should get my own opinions out there, for anyone who cares.
I'll be blunt. Real person slash creeps me out. All I can think of when I see it is how weirded out the actors/singers/what have you would be if they ever came across it. I mean, there just something sort of disturbing about writing about real, living people having sex, especially when it's with someone they probably would never sleep with in real life.
Does that mean I'll leave a list that has RPS posted on it? No. I can simply choose not to read those posts (and trust me, I always choose not to, even when I like the author). Does that mean I'll flame a writer who does write/post RPS? No. I mean, I'm already on sketchy ground myself producing fanfic and slash, so who am I to throw stones?
'Kay, so we've established that RPS creeps me out, and that I could never feel comfortable reading/writing it. This extends even to slashing historical figures, to some extant. For example, Doc Holliday & Wyatt Earp scream out to God to be slashed so loudly that even totally heterosexual male actors and screenwriters seem unable to produce any movie about them that isn't littered with subtext, yet it took me four years to get up the nerve to write a Tombstone fic, because I'm pretty sure that the real life Holliday and Earp weren't gay.
On the other hand, I have no problem at all with slashing fictional characters. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Wolfwood, Captain Jack Sparrow, I can make them all as gay as a purple teletubby in drag at a Barbara Streisand concert and suffer not a qualm, because they aren't real, yo. (and as for intellectual property--I bite my thumb at it! If I ever publish a novel, readers are free to fic and slash with its characters to their heart's content, provided they don't try to steal and publish my ideas). Does my slash objectify gay men? Probably not, since I don't have the guts to write sex scenes and always resort instead to the "tasteful fadeout." Does other people's slash objectify gay men? Probably. But then, I'm pretty sure Silhouette romance novels objectify straight men, and no one complains about them.
I have nearly finished reading an absolutely wonderful book called The Pyrates, by James MacDonald Fraser. All of y'all, go and check this baby out of your local library now. It's sort of like what PotC might have been if it were written by Terry Pratchett (and didn't have the undead skeleton pirates), and is screamingly funny.
There's been a big todo lately on several of the ljs/lists of some of the people who have friended me over RPS and RPF in general. One very talented writer even left pirategasm over it *sniffles* So I figure I should get my own opinions out there, for anyone who cares.
I'll be blunt. Real person slash creeps me out. All I can think of when I see it is how weirded out the actors/singers/what have you would be if they ever came across it. I mean, there just something sort of disturbing about writing about real, living people having sex, especially when it's with someone they probably would never sleep with in real life.
Does that mean I'll leave a list that has RPS posted on it? No. I can simply choose not to read those posts (and trust me, I always choose not to, even when I like the author). Does that mean I'll flame a writer who does write/post RPS? No. I mean, I'm already on sketchy ground myself producing fanfic and slash, so who am I to throw stones?
'Kay, so we've established that RPS creeps me out, and that I could never feel comfortable reading/writing it. This extends even to slashing historical figures, to some extant. For example, Doc Holliday & Wyatt Earp scream out to God to be slashed so loudly that even totally heterosexual male actors and screenwriters seem unable to produce any movie about them that isn't littered with subtext, yet it took me four years to get up the nerve to write a Tombstone fic, because I'm pretty sure that the real life Holliday and Earp weren't gay.
On the other hand, I have no problem at all with slashing fictional characters. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Wolfwood, Captain Jack Sparrow, I can make them all as gay as a purple teletubby in drag at a Barbara Streisand concert and suffer not a qualm, because they aren't real, yo. (and as for intellectual property--I bite my thumb at it! If I ever publish a novel, readers are free to fic and slash with its characters to their heart's content, provided they don't try to steal and publish my ideas). Does my slash objectify gay men? Probably not, since I don't have the guts to write sex scenes and always resort instead to the "tasteful fadeout." Does other people's slash objectify gay men? Probably. But then, I'm pretty sure Silhouette romance novels objectify straight men, and no one complains about them.