A Wild Discussion Post Appears!

[hhanon]

Because I suppose we all need somewhere to squee.

Venting frustrations is what anon memes are made for, but keep it respectful.

You are allowed to talk about the show, the actors, their other projects, the twitter RP, the forum, and what you had for breakfast.

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Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

When I was writing hooker fic for this last night, there was a bit of my brain that was just freaking out because 'HOLY SHIT, SELF, THIS IS A SHOW FOR CHILDREN AND YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT SOMEONE WHORING HIMSELF OUT'. It was strangely reassuring, I sometimes worry that a decade spent in various fandoms had killed the bit of my brain that felt shame like that. Obviously it has not.

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

That is a reassuring feeling, feeling that bit of guilt about writing porny porny of smutty smut for this show, because I honestly thought that I had no shame xD

Turns out I do, I'm just better at working past it for my other fandoms xD

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

I feel a bit reassured by my RPF GUILT ARGh, considering I've been in RPF fandoms since 2006.

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

I popped that particular cherry tonight. It was filthy and wonderful, but, yes, there is a rather large bit of my brain intermittently flailing and sitting in a corner rocking back and forth. Luckily, I am pre good at ignoring my brain by now.

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

If that means you are the author of "Carrot and Stick", just going to let you know that I'm still sitting here with a stupid grin after reading it :DDDDDDDD

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

It does, and thank you! That is much appreciated :D

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

It took me a long to write smut for my first RPF fandom, and it's always a hurdle when I get into new RPF fandoms now. Luckily, with HH, there's always the cover of character porn!

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

It has taken me a long time from reading my first RPF to actually writing it. I am still freaked out that I did, but I'm sure I will be able to smother that bit of my brain soon enough.

Re: RPF

[(Anonymous)]

There's a couple of RPF prompts that I actually would like to fill but it crosses so many boundries, I know that if I do I would deserve to lose the Internet.

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

See that's also helpful for me here - I tend to hang out in the ST sandbox, and I've played with politics as well, so RPF is ridiculously easy to write now xD

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

My first ever fic (written in 2003!) was RPF. I think I feel more guilt about writing it these days than I did then.

It doesn't help that celebrities are so fandom-aware these days. I used to be in McFly fandom and the band members started using the pairing names themselves and I was just going NO NO STOP THAT YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS OH GOD NOOOOO.

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, my main fandom is Band of Brothers, I'm used to wrestling over RPF guilt, though this is still the first time I've ever written anything that could properly be termed that. And it's for a kid's show. DAMMIT GUYS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

(In Band of Brothers fandom we all justify it to ourselves by saying it isn't technically RPF - any more than, say, stuff about the HH versions of historical figures is RPF - but being used to reconciling that in my mind does at least mean that writing about RPF about this show's actors, who actively send themselves up in behind the scenes stuff, makes me feel a lot less like I'm having a special corner of hell reserved for me.)

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

HI FIVE, TOCCOAN.

Historical and factual fandoms really do blur the lines of RPF...

Re: Feeling old

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, fellow Toccoans!

BoB was actually my first toe-dip into reading RPF, but it was just so wonderful I had to keep doing it.