: Saturday, June 26, 2010
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melodiousb: Random RPF thoughts - With a live RPF fandom, there's simultaneously a lot of information, and very little information, and it doesn't come predigested. And that's what I love about it. A live RPF fandom is a constantly changing puzzle. You can figure out what you think someone is like--make the shifting mass of information into a consistent character through fiction--and maybe the picture you've created will make sense, and be workable, but then the real person will do something unexpected. -![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
languisity: tattoo it in the clouds above you. - See, I get what you're doing here. You liked the story, you believed in the author's good intentions or you know them personally, and you read it the way that they wanted it to be read. You want to support the author. But you are not the sole voice of the marginalized group you are, however inadvertantly, speaking for. The fact that you're okay with something that some people found hurtful and/or offensive does not trump the fact that other people found that thing hurtful and/or offensive. -- bookshop: So! RPF. - RPF, just like every other form of fanfiction ever, is not subversive. It is not new. It is not remotely edgy or different or shocking, in and of itself. -
- tinnefoil: thoughts on exotism (in fandom) and white fans of characters of color - I'm not saying that actual exotism as kink is less bad, but it is my impression that it's less frequent or that self-censorship (in fandom) works slightly better there. It seems on a pure number basis the problem of characters of color being excluded or minimalized is actually more frequent than the problem of characters of color being lusted over in a creepy exoticistic way (in fandom I mean, not in rl media). I don't want to minimize the problem of exotism, I really don't, but it seems important to me that while both use upsetting racial stereotypes when describing characters they are still different issues that come from different angle. A write might for example reach into the bag of exotist stereotypes to describe a character they have actual interest in, sexually or characterwise. -