In media fandoms I'm a total canon whore. I check and double-check every detail.
RP fandom is tricky.
First, it's just too much detail. I have a rather firm knowledge when it comes to my OTP: Orlando Bloom and Harry Sinclair. It's in part my love for both men, and in part them being my OTP.
Second, I value the freedom RP fic gives me in creating characters. Sometimes writing it seems like a mixture of inventing original characters from scratch, and writing in the boundaries of media fandom. I do love both. Lotrips gives me the freedom to choose, in a way.
I highly value stories that keep all available details straight, just like in FPF. On the other hand, when the characterisation is brilliant, but RL details like Orlando's NZ girlfriend are ignored, it doesn't bother me so much. If I can see the real person shine through the RP character, that's all the canon I need. I'm not so much a canon whore, but a characterisation whore. Does that make any sense to you?
Third, I have issues with including certain canon facts like spouses, children, non-celebrity family members,... in a way that makes them real characters. Mentioning them in passing is fine with me, but anything beyond that makes me queasy.
re: invading privacy I think it's a grey area, as always. For instance there was this incident on Atti's mailing list. An author asked questions specifically to use the gathered information in later stories. It was that obvious. (and she already had a reputation for rude behaviour) I thought it tacky at best.
Say you go to a convention and someone asks about the aftershave Craig uses, IMO, it's fine to use it in your next story. Public information. Then again, I would never ask anything for the sole purpose of getting more "meat" to my RP character. In the world according to Ghani, it's not on.
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Date: 2004-02-17 02:47 pm (UTC)RP fandom is tricky.
First, it's just too much detail. I have a rather firm knowledge when it comes to my OTP: Orlando Bloom and Harry Sinclair. It's in part my love for both men, and in part them being my OTP.
Second, I value the freedom RP fic gives me in creating characters. Sometimes writing it seems like a mixture of inventing original characters from scratch, and writing in the boundaries of media fandom. I do love both. Lotrips gives me the freedom to choose, in a way.
I highly value stories that keep all available details straight, just like in FPF. On the other hand, when the characterisation is brilliant, but RL details like Orlando's NZ girlfriend are ignored, it doesn't bother me so much. If I can see the real person shine through the RP character, that's all the canon I need. I'm not so much a canon whore, but a characterisation whore. Does that make any sense to you?
Third, I have issues with including certain canon facts like spouses, children, non-celebrity family members,... in a way that makes them real characters. Mentioning them in passing is fine with me, but anything beyond that makes me queasy.
re: invading privacy
I think it's a grey area, as always. For instance there was this incident on Atti's mailing list. An author asked questions specifically to use the gathered information in later stories. It was that obvious. (and she already had a reputation for rude behaviour) I thought it tacky at best.
Say you go to a convention and someone asks about the aftershave Craig uses, IMO, it's fine to use it in your next story. Public information. Then again, I would never ask anything for the sole purpose of getting more "meat" to my RP character. In the world according to Ghani, it's not on.