The one thing that does make me uncomfortable is the idea that the private people behind the celebrity construct might not understand that rpf isn't about them.
I think that right there might be the source of some of my uneasiness with actorfic and/or popslash. I'd be flattered and thrilled to find that someone had written fanfiction for some of my original fic , but finding a story about me would probably creep me out, especially if it had sex in it, and I'm already familiar with the concept of RPF. Of course, I'm also not a celebrity, don't have a publicity agent or anything else, and would probably be far more disturbed to find myself on the cover of the National Enquirer than in the bowls of adultfanfiction.net.
The probability of the actor in question ever finding my particular (hypothetical) story about him would be slim-to-none, but if s/he has been dead since before I was born, it's altogether impossible, and there's far less guilt involved.
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I think that right there might be the source of some of my uneasiness with actorfic and/or popslash. I'd be flattered and thrilled to find that someone had written fanfiction for some of my original fic , but finding a story about me would probably creep me out, especially if it had sex in it, and I'm already familiar with the concept of RPF. Of course, I'm also not a celebrity, don't have a publicity agent or anything else, and would probably be far more disturbed to find myself on the cover of the National Enquirer than in the bowls of adultfanfiction.net.
The probability of the actor in question ever finding my particular (hypothetical) story about him would be slim-to-none, but if s/he has been dead since before I was born, it's altogether impossible, and there's far less guilt involved.