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YouTube embeds and Snowflake and RPF
Jan. 5th, 2025 06:42 pmSo I was testing a thing that emphatically did not work. Nevermind. If anyone knows how to embed a YouTube video, dm me? Otherwise I’ll have to try again tomorrow.
Snowflake Challenge #3
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
I used to think that RPF was kinda morally dubious, then I read a fic recommended by someone I knew to have excellent taste and strong moral character. It kinda changed my mind about the limits of what is fair game for telling fandom stories hung across the public persona of media figures. And now I think that as long as nobody (for instance) writes fanfic about David Duchovny and tries to read it to him, it’s just another fiction, “based off a true story” or not. (Also, was that a thing that really happened? I don’t know how to web search it and not get a million Gillovny fics!)
Actors and musicians, media people and politicians, even to some extent private citizens - as long as we’re only using the details they have published publicly, and not showing it to them or to the people who know them, I don’t see the harm. Do I still have the urge to flinch when I catch sight of RPF on AO3? Do I still try not to cringe when I see it recced? Yeah, but I can admit that that’s my own personal hang-up, and not an ethical failure of the author or the readers. I pass no judgment anymore, as long as everyone is taking care to not cross the streams and show RPF to friends/acquaintances/the person themselves.
If you have an ethical stance that is not “it makes me feel icky” and you disagree with my take, then I am willing to discuss this and will entertain any reasonable and respectful dialogue. Trolls and sealions and goal post movers will get bounced though.
Snowflake Challenge #3
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
I used to think that RPF was kinda morally dubious, then I read a fic recommended by someone I knew to have excellent taste and strong moral character. It kinda changed my mind about the limits of what is fair game for telling fandom stories hung across the public persona of media figures. And now I think that as long as nobody (for instance) writes fanfic about David Duchovny and tries to read it to him, it’s just another fiction, “based off a true story” or not. (Also, was that a thing that really happened? I don’t know how to web search it and not get a million Gillovny fics!)
Actors and musicians, media people and politicians, even to some extent private citizens - as long as we’re only using the details they have published publicly, and not showing it to them or to the people who know them, I don’t see the harm. Do I still have the urge to flinch when I catch sight of RPF on AO3? Do I still try not to cringe when I see it recced? Yeah, but I can admit that that’s my own personal hang-up, and not an ethical failure of the author or the readers. I pass no judgment anymore, as long as everyone is taking care to not cross the streams and show RPF to friends/acquaintances/the person themselves.
If you have an ethical stance that is not “it makes me feel icky” and you disagree with my take, then I am willing to discuss this and will entertain any reasonable and respectful dialogue. Trolls and sealions and goal post movers will get bounced though.