Current mood:

Homicidal

Okay. So you kids like your RPF. That's all well and good and dandy, I like me some RPF too.

But where I get pissed right the fuck off is when your little fic community is full of fics of a really implausible pairing, and every single fic includes a line about how the male half of the pairing's wife of nearly 9 years is a "crazy bitch." Usually enumerated by an actress known to be one of the classiest in the business, which just seems so out of character. Also, to write him cheating on said wife... just no.

(Literally. Every. Fic.)

Of course, seeing wank reports about various fandoms, I know that the real-life significant others of people who get in the way of their beloved ships often make fen froth and kermitflail, but this is such a small fandom, with a lot of not-as-well known people, I don't know why I assumed this one would be different.

It's disappointing to say the least. Guess I'll have to stick to the outskirts of the fandom once again, cause I don't want to get the crazy on me.

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singe
2009-05-23 04:19 pm UTC (link)

Someone claiming to be the wife of a rock star was complaining about this on Fandom Secrets recently. It's certainly something that's always bothered me and it's rife in any type of fiction where there's an SO that needs to be gotten out of the way.

Is it really SO HARD to forget the wife exists? If writers are going to be so canonically scrupulous as to include her then why do they throw canon out the window in order to demonize her? Bad, lazy, misogynistic writing.

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	nevadafighter 2009-05-24 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Although fics that demonize Heather Mills can probably be forgiven. ;) And Maxine Entwistle, but that's neither here nor there... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	photosinensis 2009-05-24 04:06 am UTC (link)
	Heather Mills is a demon. The bitch can die in a fire, as far as I'm concerned. And I don't even really like Paul. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nevadafighter 2009-05-24 04:12 am UTC (link)
	I don't either--Paul is my least favorite Beatle and I don't find him to be that cute, either, so I was really surprised at how strongly I reacted to Heather Mills and her batshit; there were times I was almost barked at my TV, which is something I only did with Sarah Palin. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	singe 2009-05-24 09:12 am UTC (link)
	Whew, Koo-Koo-Bird Mills. You have a point. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jrs1980 2009-05-25 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Ashlee Simpson y/y? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2009-05-25 02:40 pm UTC (link)
	Yoko Ono. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	solelyfictional 2009-05-25 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	Have to admit, I read a bit of an epic where that had been done recently, and I found it almost as creepy as demonising them. To stick so closely to canon inevery other way, but just remove someone from existence? A namecheck wouldn't have hurt. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2009-05-25 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	Agreed, that IS creepy. I guess the problem is sticking to 'canon' then. How are we to make 'canon' out of someone's private lives, anyway? (See, this why I never got into RPF myself.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	solelyfictional 2009-05-25 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	There's a whole bunch of different lines to walk (as well as making people evil, or Stalinesque wholesale removal, you've also got to consider writing about people who aren't in themselves famous and never wanted to be), and I have to admit it's why I tend to like the AUs significantly better. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2009-05-25 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	AUs are inherently superior, yes. Gawd, I love me some crackfic. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	solelyfictional 2009-05-26 06:44 am UTC (link)
	Bandom has sucked me into the all-too-tiny genre of Craigslist AUs. I don't know why I love them so much. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	electricwitch 2009-05-28 02:53 pm UTC (link)
	You need to have a talk with the Bowiefans... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2009-05-28 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	I am a Bowiefan. I knowwwww... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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