Introduction plus a question about Fetch Dickson and Queer Guy
Hello! I am very new to the QAF fandom. I only saw the series for the first time in October. There was a brief period of time when I could watch the full episodes on a website in China. Sadly, they are no longer accessible.
Anyway, I have been searching for some time for a community that is still having in-depth discussions about the show, for many have been closed or inactive for a while. I am glad that I found you!
I really enjoy reading post-513 fic, and I have been kind of working on my own. As I develop my storylines, I sometimes wrestle with how to resolve problems that I have with canon, such as the crazy timeline.
One problem I have is that I find it very unrealistic that a t.v. station would hire a recent gay porn star to be their "Queer Guy." Based on what I have read on various websites, I am far from alone in feeling this way.
How, then, do you deal with this when writing about Emmett? Do you pretend that Fetch Dickson never existed? Do you pretend that QAF takes place in a universe where t.v. stations have no problem hiring former porn stars?
Has anyone written a story where this did become an issue for Emmett... like someone sent videos of Fetch Dickson to channel five news? Or maybe a new boyfriend didn't realize at first that Emmett was once a porn star?
Would strangers recognize Emmett as Fetch, or Queer Guy, or both?
ETA: I started thinking about this after I came across a story on Queerty.com about an employee at Subway who was fired after it was discovered that he has done gay porn. Click Here for the article
In the comments section, poster #26 wrote:
This is why I was jumping-up-and-down mad in the fifth season of Queer As Folk when they depicted Emmett getting a high-profile job on a major Pittsburgh TV station as a Queer Eye-style commentator. This came just three years after he made himself famous in the same town as an award-winning web-porn star named Fetch Dixon. We were asked to believe the TV station just threw him on the air with no background check, and that no mischievous fan, not only didn't recognize him, but hadn't saved any downloads of him jerking off for a web camera, ready to send to the tabloids or competing stations in town. (Bad timing too; the Jeff Gannon White House scandal had just broke a few months before that dreadful last season of the show began.)