Is it really all worth it just to be able to write a story about a real person? A person you don't know anyway? Trust me, no matter how friendly they are, how many interviews they give, you don't actually know them.
See, I think this is the most important thing here. The only problem is though, I'm not actually agreeing with you *g*
We don't know these people. Interviews and photo shoots and clip shows give us the very, barest, slimmest view of the *person* that's being interviewed available. We're actually only getting what that actor wants us to see, or chooses for us to see, or makes up for us to see.
If I were to write Paul Gross RPS, do I really think I'm writing 100% PG as a person fic? No. I do not. I'm writing fic based on the persona that he's let everyone who has cable TV see, which is, imo, a character of a type as well.
(I'd also think twice before I compare any sort of internet writing as akin to RAPE. Someone who's ever been in that situation might not take too kindly to being compared to an actor getting willing fucked in the back of his trailer.)
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Date: 2005-03-16 07:14 pm (UTC)See, I think this is the most important thing here. The only problem is though, I'm not actually agreeing with you *g*
We don't know these people. Interviews and photo shoots and clip shows give us the very, barest, slimmest view of the *person* that's being interviewed available. We're actually only getting what that actor wants us to see, or chooses for us to see, or makes up for us to see.
If I were to write Paul Gross RPS, do I really think I'm writing 100% PG as a person fic? No. I do not. I'm writing fic based on the persona that he's let everyone who has cable TV see, which is, imo, a character of a type as well.
(I'd also think twice before I compare any sort of internet writing as akin to RAPE. Someone who's ever been in that situation might not take too kindly to being compared to an actor getting willing fucked in the back of his trailer.)