Viva la vie Boheme
Oct. 17th, 2002 06:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflySometimes, it's weird when I think about the fact that I belong to a subset of a subset. More than that, even.
I write fanfiction. Some of it is slash. Some of it is RPF.
Each of which pulls me further and further out of the mainstream. (Is anyone out of the mainstream? Is there anyone in the mainstream?)
Average fans of the show think that writing fanfiction is weird and wrong. Many het writers think that writing slash is weird and wrong. Many fanfiction writers think that writing RPF is, yes, weird and wrong.
Sometimes it seems like only those of us in the furthest extreme seem to get that to the lay person, it's pretty much all on the same level of badness.
It's, like, you expect slashers, in general, to understand about what RPFer's go through, but some of them don't seem to realize that they're doing the exact same thing that some het writers or those people who hate all fanfiction are doing.
Why is their kink healthier and less 'wrong' than mine?
It's not.
Anyway, you lot didn't need to hear that, being the brainy type, but I think that I needed to say it.
I write fanfiction. Some of it is slash. Some of it is RPF.
Each of which pulls me further and further out of the mainstream. (Is anyone out of the mainstream? Is there anyone in the mainstream?)
Average fans of the show think that writing fanfiction is weird and wrong. Many het writers think that writing slash is weird and wrong. Many fanfiction writers think that writing RPF is, yes, weird and wrong.
Sometimes it seems like only those of us in the furthest extreme seem to get that to the lay person, it's pretty much all on the same level of badness.
It's, like, you expect slashers, in general, to understand about what RPFer's go through, but some of them don't seem to realize that they're doing the exact same thing that some het writers or those people who hate all fanfiction are doing.
Why is their kink healthier and less 'wrong' than mine?
It's not.
Anyway, you lot didn't need to hear that, being the brainy type, but I think that I needed to say it.