Manips and RPF are both...very hard for me to understand. It's one thing, to me, to play with characters but when it comes to the real people attached to those characters? A line I just couldn't cross.
Well you know me, I never dismiss anything totally until I've tried it - ummmm yeah, I tried a couple of RPF's a while ago when I was bored out of my skull, one left me feeling a little like a peeping tom - reality TV for writers? The other was an AU and to be honest it was original fiction without the finesse and skills to create original characters, just stuck on familiar faces, just like a manip I suppose. No, have to say I just don't get it either.
I don't feel the need to imagine my friends naked, neither would I expect a total stranger to strip so I could photograph his dangly bits, I was always taught that a guy who strips you naked with his eyes was a lecherous bastard, it seems times have changed or are the rules different for women?
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Date: 2008-03-02 10:46 pm (UTC)Well you know me, I never dismiss anything totally until I've tried it - ummmm yeah, I tried a couple of RPF's a while ago when I was bored out of my skull, one left me feeling a little like a peeping tom - reality TV for writers? The other was an AU and to be honest it was original fiction without the finesse and skills to create original characters, just stuck on familiar faces, just like a manip I suppose. No, have to say I just don't get it either.
I don't feel the need to imagine my friends naked, neither would I expect a total stranger to strip so I could photograph his dangly bits, I was always taught that a guy who strips you naked with his eyes was a lecherous bastard, it seems times have changed or are the rules different for women?
Oh just ignore my inner bitch today...