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Real person fiction

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Real person fiction or real people fiction (RPF) is a genre of writing similar to fan fiction, but featuring celebrities or other real people.[1]

Before the term "real person fiction" (or "real people fiction")[2] came into common usage, fans came up with a variety of terms, which are still used for specific genres or cultural practices in the RPF community; for example, bandfic, popslash,[3] or actorfic.[4] The genre includes stories about actors, athletes, comedians, historical figures, musicians, newsworthy people, and reality show contestants among others, as well as fiction about the fans themselves.

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Emily Dickinson said over a century ago, that there is no frigate like a book to take us lands away, and it's true. When we pick up a book, turn on the TV, or watch a movie, We're carried away down the currents of story into a world of imagination. And when we land, on a shore that is both new and familiar, something strange happens. Stepping on to the shore, we're changed. We don't retrace the footsteps of the authors or characters we followed here: no. Instead we walk a mile in their shoes. Researchers in psychology, neuroscience, child development, and biology are finally starting to gain quantifiable scientific evidence showing what writers and readers have always known: That stories have a unique ability to change a person's point of view. Scholars are discovering evidence that stories shape culture and that much of what we believe about life comes not from fact but from fiction, that our ideas of class, marriage, and even gender are relatively new, and that many ideologies which held fast for centuries were revised within the 18th century, and re-drafted in the pages of the early novel. Imagine a world where class, and not hard work, decide a person's worth. A world where women are simply men's more untamed copy. A world where marriage for love is a novel notion. Well, that was the world in which Samuel Richardson's Pamela first appeared. Richardson's love story starred a poor, serving-class heroine who is both morally superior and smarter than her upper-class suitor. The book, challenging a slew of traditions, caused quite a ruckus. There was more press for Pamela than for Parliament. It spawned intense debate and several counter-novels. Still, for all those who couldn't accept Pamela, others were eager for this new fictional world. This best-seller, and all its literary heirs, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and yes, even Twilight, Have continuously shared the same tale, and taught similar lessons which are now conventional and commonplace. Similarly, novels have helped shape the minds of thought leaders across history. Some scholars say that Darwin's Theory of Evolution is highly indebted to the plots he read and loved. His theory privileges intelligence, swiftness, and adaptability to change- all core characteristics in a hero. Whether you're reading Harry Potter or Great Expectations, you're reading the kind of plot that inspired Darwin. Yet recent studies show that his theory might not be the whole story, our sense of being a hero- one man, or one woman, or even one species taking on the challenges of the world might be wrong. Instead of being hard-wired for competition, for being the solitary heroes in our own story, we might instead be members of a shared quest. More Hobbit than Harry. Sometimes, of course, the shoes we've been walking in can get plain worn out. After all, we haven't walked just one mile in Jane Austen or Mark Twain's shoes, we've walked about a hundred trillion miles in them. This isn't to say that we can't read and enjoy the classics, we should travel with Dickens, let Pip teach us what to expect from ourselves, have a talk with Austen and Elizabeth about our prides and prejudices. We should float with Twain down the Mississippi, and have Jim show us what it means to be good. But on our journey, we should also keep in mind that the terrain has changed. We'll start shopping around for boots that were made for walking into a new era. Take, for instance, Katniss Everdeen and her battle with the Capitol. Can Hunger Games lead us into thinking about capitalism in a new way? Can it teach us a lesson about why the individual should not put herself before the group? Will Uglies reflect the dangers of pursuing a perfect body and letting the media define what is beautiful? Will Seekers trod a path beyond global warming? Will the life and death struggles of Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and the other bears chart a course for understanding animals and our place in their world? Only the future will tell which stories will engage our imagination, which tales of make-believe we'll make tomorrow, but the good news is this: There are new stories to venture in every day. New tales that promise to influence, to create, and to spark change. Stories that you might even write yourself. So I guess the final question is this: what story will you try on next?

Description

In general, the authors seem to adopt the public personas of the celebrities in question as their own characters, building a fictional universe based on the supposed real-life histories of their idols. Information from interviews, documentaries, music videos, and other publicity sources are assimilated into the stories. It is also very popular to write fiction about celebrity couples. Communities of writers build collective archetypes based on the celebrities' public personas. Communities also develop their own ethics on what sort of stories are acceptable – some are uncomfortable with slash fiction, or with mention of the celebrity's real-life families, or with stories involving suicide, murder, or rape. Like most fan fiction, the RPF genre includes stories of every kind, from innocuous to sadistic to pornographic. The genre can be considered postmodern. Many fan fiction writers consider writing real person fan fiction unethical and the genre is considered somewhat separate from media-based fan fiction, both within fandom communities and academic disciplines like fan studies.[5]

Depictions of actors in RPF stories are often heavily influenced by characters the actors portray. For example, in RPF based around The Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen is frequently shown as taking an Aragorn-like leadership role, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan are lighthearted Hobbit-like pranksters, and Elijah Wood is more physically fragile and emotionally vulnerable than his colleagues.

A significant minority of such stories take the form of "Mary Sue fan fiction",[6] which feature a "Mary Sue" character, usually but not always female, who is described in extremely idealistic terms and is described as a wish-fulfillment image of the author. A Mary Sue may become romantically involved with a band member or actor, join a film cast, prove to have superior acting or singing ability, and/or possess incredible beauty.

Politician fic is sometimes used as a form of satire, or to highlight the underlying biases or attitudes of the politician being portrayed, although more recently there has been an increase in more 'ordinary' fan fiction about British politicians in particular, with a notable emphasis on slash.[7]

History

Real person fiction has a long history. William Shakespeare's history plays are sometimes considered early examples of RPF,[8] and the Brontë children wrote RPF from 1826 to approximately 1844. Based on the children's roleplaying game about the Napoleonic Wars, the series featured the Duke of Wellington and his two (actual) sons Charles and Arthur, and their nemesis Alexander Percy, partly based on Napoleon. Over the years, Arthur evolved into an amazingly charismatic and powerful figure, the Duke of Zamorna. Percy became a tragic villain, partly inspired by John Milton's version of Satan from Paradise Lost. These stories were not published until well over a hundred years later, but the children used them to polish their writing skills and eventually all became professional authors.[9]

During the 1940s, the Whitman Publishing Company released authorized real person fiction,[10] possibly as a boost to the careers of the Hollywood stars of that era. Described as "The Newest, Up-To-The-Minute Mystery and Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls, featuring your favorite characters", a variety of famous actors and actresses were spotlighted, including Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, John Payne, Ann Sheridan, Jane Withers, Bonita Granville, Gene Autry, Deanna Durbin and Ann Rutherford. The hardcover publications had colorful dustjackets with a photo of the celebrity on the front, and several illustrations of the actor or actress inside the volume. Liberties were taken with the identities of the celebrities; for example, in the story "Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak", the "Ginger Rogers" character is not an actress at all, but is instead a telephone operator who becomes involved in a mystery.

The original edition of the "Three Investigators" children's crime series was billed as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators", with Hitchcock as mentor to the eponymous heroes.[11]

Jean Lorrah's "Visit to a Weird Planet",[12] published in Spockanalia 3 (1968), was a lighthearted two-parter about what would happen if a transporter malfunction caused the Star Trek characters to be swapped with the 20th-century actors who played them. Regina Marvinny, editor of Tricorder Readings, encouraged fans in the early 1970s to write "what-if" stories about meeting Leonard Nimoy. However, some of the earliest known published cases of RPF come from 1977, when fanzines of the band Led Zeppelin began to print some of the fan fiction being written. Due to the fact that these stories involved real Zeppelin band members, most notably Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, names were changed to pseudonyms such as "Tris" and "Alex".

Starting in 1984, Elliot Roosevelt wrote a series of detective novels, casting his real-life mother Eleanor Roosevelt in the role of a crime solving sleuth, with titles like Murder and the First Lady, Murder in the Oval Office, and Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Real person fiction about musicians dates back to at least the 1970s, when slash fiction about bands - particularly Led Zeppelin - became popular. It circulated in fanzines in the 1980s and 1990s and moving online in the 1990s.[13][14][4]

The RPF community was, for a period of time, centered on the website FanFiction.Net. When the RPF section was removed from FanFiction.Net in 2002,[14] the community dispersed to smaller web archives and LiveJournal communities. RPF is generally totally absent from Usenet, especially in older and more established newsgroups. Until it shut down in 2014, Quizilla was a popular website for publishing RPF.[4]

The website The Nifty Archive was a notable repository of boy band and celebrity erotica. Other music-related RPF websites include rockfic.com for RPF involving rock stars (its inaugural story was a slash pairing between Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett), and Metal Fic, specifically for heavy metal artists.

Another popular website for RPF chosen by youth fan fic writers is Winglin.net or Asianfanfics.com, which is more commonly centered on Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese or Chinese musicians and actors, like TVXQ, Super Junior, Big Bang, SHINee, EXO, Mike He, S.H.E, and others.

In 2009, the Organization for Transformative Works launched the website Archive of Our Own, which included categories for RPF.

Controversy

Morality and legality

The morality of real person fiction is debated. Most RPF authors state that they have no intent to claim these fictional portrayals reflect the real activities of the "source figure" in any way.

Some authors of traditional fan fiction view real person fiction with suspicion, disdain, or outright disgust. Some feel that fanfic based on fictional characters is on shaky enough legal ground, barely tolerated by the authors, producers, copyright owners of the original works and that RPF, especially real person slash, may turn corporate and public opinion against fan fiction as a whole.[citation needed]

The often included disclaimer in story headers, stating that the work is pure fiction, has so far protected real person fiction from slander and libel.

The first known case of legal action being taken as a result of RPF is from 2003, when FanDomination.net received a cease and desist order from a representative of baseball player Andy Pettitte.[15]

Real person slash

Real person slash (RPS), also known in some circles as real-life slash (RLS), involves relationships. (See slash fiction for more on the subtleties and variations in definition.) These are usually complete fabrications, not based on any real-life indications of the subject's sexual orientation, but on the fantasies of the author and the desire to experiment with perceived or invented erotic subtext between the idols in question. Slash is roughly equal in popularity to less controversial types of real person fiction.

The content of the stories can range from the mildly romantic, involving deep friendships and innocent crushes, to carefully written love stories, all the way to explicit erotica.

With the advent of bands, fans wrote an explosion of fictional stories about members being involved in romantic relations with one another. In the 1990s, early online RPS communities were devoted to depictions of bands. Most band-related RPF was slash fiction. Older RPF communities also began to see a rise in slash content, in contrast to earlier stories, which had generally featured original (non-"canon") characters as partners for band members.

As slash became more acceptable, the amount of explicit sexual content in the stories also began to rise. Erotic fan stories have existed for as long as other types of fanfic, but they were often a closed-door affair, circulated only in private among friends, and it is unclear whether sexual content was a common theme.[citation needed] With the advent of the Internet simultaneously allowing easy distribution of stories and relative anonymity for authors, stories with explicit content suddenly became much more widespread.

Due to the potentially libelous nature of some stories, and the knowledge or fear that some celebrities dislike slash fiction involving themselves, some fan fiction communities denounce RPS fiction and do not allow it on their websites.

This type of RPF also brings up issues of consent[16] and objectification of real people.[2]

Reaction

In 2008, a man was arrested in the UK for writing and publishing on the internet a story featuring various members of the band Girls Aloud under the Obscene Publications Act.[17] The story described the kidnap, rape and murder of the girls. He was subsequently tried (the R v Walker trial) and found not guilty,[18] and claimed that he had never intended to frighten or intimidate the band members.

See also

References

  1. ^ Fathallah, Judith (2018-12-01). "Reading real person fiction as digital fiction: An argument for new perspectives" (PDF). Convergence. 24 (6): 568–586. doi:10.1177/1354856516688624. ISSN 1354-8565. S2CID 148751639.
  2. ^ a b Fanlore: RPF. Accessed 2013-01-03
  3. ^ Hirsch, Afua (2009-07-03). "How to police popslash". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  4. ^ a b c Hale, Laura (2014-03-21). "Bandfic as RPF". Spacial Anomaly.
  5. ^ Fathallah, Judith (2017-01-19). "Reading real person fiction as digital fiction: An argument for new perspectives" (PDF). Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. SAGE Publications. 24 (6): 568–586. doi:10.1177/1354856516688624. ISSN 1354-8565. S2CID 148751639.
  6. ^ Based on a survey from FanDomination.net
  7. ^ Le Conte, Marie (7 October 2020). "Members in Parliament: the ups and downs of political porn". The Face. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  8. ^ Stitch (2021-08-11). "What's the Deal With Real Person Fiction?". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  9. ^ Ratchford, Fannie Elizabeth (1941). The Brontës' web of childhood. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-89231-5. OCLC 565522099.
  10. ^ Valentine, Genevieve (2016-12-01). "Ginger Rogers And The Case Of The Authorized Editions". NPR. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  11. ^ Barnett, David (2010-09-23). "On the trail of the Three Investigators". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  12. ^ Lorrah, Jean, Visit to a Weird Planet Archived 2007-01-27 at the Wayback Machine Originally appeared in Spockanalia 3, Fall 1968. Retrieved on 2007-01-20.
  13. ^ Hoad, Catherine (2017-03-01). "Slashing through the boundaries: Heavy metal fandom, fan fiction and girl cultures". Metal Music Studies. 3 (1): 5–22. doi:10.1386/mms.3.1.5_1. ISSN 2052-3998.
  14. ^ a b Minkel, Elizabeth (2018-11-08). "The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  15. ^ Eric, Littleton, Chad (2011-06-27). The Role of Feedback in Two Fanfiction Writing Groups. OCLC 748282352.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "The Dubious Ethics of "Real-Person Fiction" – Dark(ish) Web – Medium". 2018-03-19. Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  17. ^ Leather, Melanie (2 October 2008). "Man charged over Girls Aloud 'porn murder blog'". The Independent.
  18. ^ "Man cleared over Girls Aloud blog". BBC News. 29 June 2009.

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