Taking a moment,

[archet]

to think about a comment I've just read that likens RPS to deplorable activities such as celebrity stalking. Yes, I understand what this person was saying, and why they said it, and yes they have a right to think what they want. I guess I just don't like feeling like I've just been labeled some kind of slack jawed deviant for reading and writing rps.

Does this notion make me want to stop reading and writing rps?

Heh.

Nope.

...on second thought, when it comes to Viggo/Sean, that slack jawed deviant part may apply to me after all, *grin*

Comments

[lamath.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well-said. Nothing wrong with enjoying your ride on the handbasket to Hell. ;-)

As for stalking... well, I fail to see how RPS is anything like stalking, unless a writer actually goes through a celeb's trash for their source material or something.

IMO, RPS is not terribly different from someone posting about a smutty dream they had about a certain celeb - it's just indulging in fantasies.

As long as the writer takes some reasonable precautions to prevent the fic from being seen by anyone who randomly googles for a celeb name - it's all good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

People have different tastes. Some people have strong opinions. And sometimes they don't know the tastes of you or anyone else.

Don't consider that a personal affront. We don't share the same opinion about the genre either, but that doesn't hinder us to remain friends, right? Or am I mistaken?

[helens78]

You know, I've been in many, many RPS debates over the last year and a half, because my first fandom was Phantom Menace, and by and large the people who inhabit that fandom are extremely anti-RPS. And of course I have no problem with it; never have. And nowadays, LotRPS is my primary fandom and I'm quite happy there.

I don't mind when people have a dislike for RPS. I don't mind when people don't care for slash. Or fanfiction. Or pumpkin pie. What I hate is when they take their dislike to extremes. I don't like being told that what I do is akin to rape, stalking, or (in some cases) being a Nazi. *rolls eyes* Yes yes, I get that RPS gives people the heebie-jeebies. I'm sure not forcing anyone to read my work, though.

[shrinetolust.livejournal.com]

Like any other fandom, RPS has its sane people and its nutters. But it hasn't been my experience that RPS writers are in any way more likely to stalk--hell, in fact, I know a LOT of writers who don't want to go anywhere near the subject of their fics, because they want to keep the fantasy intact.

I can't claim any moral high ground when it comes to RPS, but I do bristle when people rank it up with really severe crimes against humanity. That's just absurd--it's the same old story, people attack what they don't understand. And no, you don't have to like it, but you don't have to banish us all to hell, either. *sigh*

And please let me join you in fangirling over helens' Sean!! *squees in appreciation*