#rpfanart

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me, watching all my friends who r into mcyt deal with the same fandom issues bandom has dealt with for years:

[ravi-sopha]

gurl idk rammy doodles as i try to figure out how 2 draw real ppl. can u tell who my fav is

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Hi Pia! Hope your day's going well~ I noticed in one of your recent posts that you talked about RPF shipping, and since the line between fiction and reality gets sort of blurry to me personally in that regard, I just wanted to know what argument could be given to prove it's okay to ship it? I personally have nothing against it, it just that most people seem very against it bc it appears to promote a behavior that can have real life consequences on real life people.

The best place to read about RPF viewpoints, both pros and cons, is probably fanlore. You can see some of the pro arguments here. As well as look through their RPF meta page.

Some of my favourite ones are:

Because We Love Our Gods.

Celebrity Gossip vs. RPF.

Let’s talk RPS in open debate (inc. comments). I like the one comment in this one that basically says that most RPS/RPF is ‘original fiction with familiar faces’ which is also how I see it and has certainly been fundamentally true in the Hemsworth/Hiddlestone fandom.

On RPF/RPS.

Our Community/Our History, a History of RPS/RPF.

It has always been very cool and trendy to hate on people who write/read RPF.

I would say that the media turns all celebrities into fictional characters to a degree already. Any media celebrity who has a ‘brand’, and even those who don’t, are fictionalised and mythologised in our media to a huge degree. Anyone who’s ever read and enjoyed news media that involved their favourite celebrities, is guilty of participating in a fictionalisation that can have real life consequences for real life people. Not everyone thinks this is true, this is just my take as someone who did media studies, and knows how easy it is for journalists and similar - and actors etc. themselves - to alter and change their images.

Imho, there’s a huge double standard to me personally re: people who might say, participate in that news mythologisation by reading those articles and engaging with that media, who then go on to hate RPS/RPF, which is largely written in small circles, rarely shared beyond those circles, and is often composed primarily of women and queer people.

It reminds me a great deal of antis who hate noncon and think people who write noncon are ‘basically’ rapists who are inciting rape but have zero problems with largely patriarchal popular media showing murder in most of their television shows, and never being cognisant of the serious irony of that.

But anyway, it’s always been trendy to hate people who write/read RPF. Always. I’m very much in the minority for my views, and I’ve certainly been aware of the hate we’ve gotten since like... idk, the early 00s? At least? RPF has been considered the most cardinal sin, beyond noncon, underage etc. since kind of the dawn of fandom.

(There is a certain squickiness in the fact that RPF gen is generally always accepted, implying that there’s something implicitly wrong with slash specifically. And that RPFanart is widely circulated with absolutely no sense of responsibility or judgement. There are further discussions to be had about the multiple double standards around the way people vehemently hate one thing that falls under the umbrella, but then might take out 4 or 5 other things that fall under the umbrella by their own definition, because it’s convenient to them).

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