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lobelia321Do you know the fabulous Hoot/Todd stories by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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??
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??