GIP

You know that you're no longer on your way to Hell in a handbasket but that you have, in fact, arrived when you find yourself making an icon to go with your new Fandom That Must Not Be Named.

And I need all the help I can get in struggling with the overwhelming fanon characterisations of this particular individual... *g* (Okay, the chin's not as pointed as it's supposed to be in canon but hey.)

Ah, Mrs Crook, who but you would name their son Mackenzie...

pimpage

Do you know the fabulous Hoot/Todd stories by stewardess_lotr? They were recced by eyebrowofdoom and oh my, are they breathtakingly addictive. BHD fandom but don't worry if you neither like nor know that film. And Stewardess so deliciously puts [Bana/Bloom] in square brackets in her pairings rubric.

And it's nice to read some gritty, real, manly and at the same time so totally schmoopy fic after all those forays into fantasy!canon I've been lured into recently.

Taking my cue from Stewardess, I wish to offer a mini-musing on fps and rps. How, exactly, do we determine what's what? Stewardess calls her Hoot/Todd series 'fps' because none of it is based on anything real. Okay: if it were Bana/Bloom, it would, quite obviously, be rps. But Hoot/Todd in movieverse makes it fps. Except that the movie is based on a real story with real characters named Hoot and Todd. So does that make the fics rps, after all? I don' t think so because it's not the *real* Hoot/Todd that Stewardess is writing about. She explicitly states that her pairing is 'Hoot/Todd [Bana/Bloom]': it is Hoot'n'Todd *as portrayed by* Bana'n'Bloom in the movie BHD. Had Stewardess done research on the rl characters and found photos (e.g. scanned them in from the book upon which the movie script is based), that would have made her Hoot'n'Todd rps.

Complicated? Well, it's one of those wonderful duck-rabbit intertwinings that makes fandom so interesting for me. The way that the rps (hot actors) shimmers through the fps (gritty action soldiers). The way that Bana/Bloom effortlessly moves from Hoot/Todd to Hector/Paris, and back again. (Because, unsurprisingly, Stewardess writes Hector/Paris, too.) The way that movement back and forth makes total sense in the world of fanfic.

So what do you think? What makes fps fps, and what makes rps rps? And is Shakespeare's "King Henry V", technically speaking, rpf (real person fiction because well, slash it ain't)?

And what of Lucifer/God fic? rps? fps??

mark haddon

I just read an interesting interview in The Observer with Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Extracts I particularly liked:

( Genre vs literary fiction )

I have been thinking about genre a lot recently, and this is an interesting take on it.

( Writing is like being gay! )

(I particularly like that one!)

( Writing is not about you )

And this one is a salutary reminder and somehow liberating as well.

The interview is here.

tell not show, installment the 78th

In tiggage about showing and telling, stewardess_lotr offered this wonderful little rhyme:

You can show, but you don't really know if you only show.

Ooh, yes. *shivers*

Tell me, baby.