the book i will never write but desperately want to

[stardust_rifle]

Some Things Need To Stay On Ao3: A Guide For Young RPF-ers

Chapter 1: Are You Really Sure You Want To Be Posting Your RPF Mpreg Memes On A Platform That Your RPF Subject Is On?

Chapter 2: Especially When You Follow The RPF Subject?

Chapter 3: No, Are You Really, Really Sure?

Chapter 4: It's Not That I Don't Appreciate The Energy, But Perhaps Instagram Is Not The Best Platform For Your Edits of Porn Audios Overlaid Over Clips Of Stagegay

Chapter 5: I'm Not Even Asking You To Archive-Lock It, Just Please Please Stop RPF-Ing On Instagram Please Please For The Love Of God It Takes Like Eighty Years Off Of My Life The Memes Are Funny Just Put Them On Tumblr Or In A Private Discord Server Please Not On Instagram Where The Bandmen Are Please God Please

Comments

[palominocorn]

Sometimes I wonder what goes through these people's heads.

Do they not consider that a couple of stray clicks might lead the band to see their porny memes?

Do they just not care?

Do they believe that someone seeing RPF fanedits of themself will be flattered rather than disturbed?

It's just such a thoughtless way of living your life.

[stardust_rifle]

If I had to guess, I’d say it’s a combo of not thinking about it and thinking that the language barrier will protect them completely (the bands I’m talking about are Japanese).

EDIT: Also, I’m like 95% sure that none of these memers are over 20.

Finally did the stupid joke of making a blurslash icon, conveniently in my usual colours

[phantasmalpoison]

RPF subjects finding the RPF! So, fun little fact, blurslash (and tumblr blogs I lurked on and can't remember the names of) were pretty aware of Graham Coxon having talked about the Blur slash fic Graham in Wonderland in an interview (and expressed that he didn't like it! I mean, it's bad, and it ends in a suicide, so.), and I think that was just on someone's personal website. I remember a certain amount of 'Graham don't read this' warnings, but I'm not seeing as many as I remembered.

But yeah, instagram, and at least formerly, twitter, being websites everyone uses where it's easy to stumble across things is such a messy thing to be dealing with, the barrier between famous people and regular people is so thin! Your own space can be the same space they're using. I don't think it's the end of the world, like, although personally I would love it if people were writing/drawing/etc. porn of me and I know that isn't universal.

I remember I uploaded a photo of a band member to pinterest (an account that I was using for school funnily enough, and then I just had a pinboard (is that what they're called) of sexy people) and his girlfriend pinned it, very strange feeling.