Pet peeve

[katikat]

These days, I read everything. Slash or gen, death stories or PWPs, I don't care as long as they are well written. Though there is still this one thing that I can't overcome - Real People Slash, the greatest pet peeve of mine.

For me, it's one thing to slash the characters of a show - TV series/movie/anime/whatever - but it's something completely different to slash living, breathing people who can go online and read about how they did it like bunnies with their co-star *shudders* I know that there are actors who are uncomfortable with their fans slashing their characters (Eric Close to name just one of them). I can't even imagine how they would react to RPS.

When I'm talking about RPS, I have one particular in mind - Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki from Supernatural. I can see Padalecki laughing it off but not Ackles. Jensen Ackles comes from a very religious family and as he himself admitted, some members of that family don't like him even doing a show like SPN. I can't even imagine how they would react if they stumbled across a RPS story with him. I think that it would make him at least uncomfortable.

When I'm about to do something that would influence other people, I try to set myself in their position and not do anything that would make me uncomfortable. And I would really hate to read a story where I'm going at it with for example a neighbour of mine. Some people who read these stories actually believe this stuff.

So, for my own peace of mind, I'll continue skipping RPS stories. I'm sorry if I ruffled someone's feathers but that's something that I'm very convinced of.

Comments

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Hehe, you in a DJ? How cool is that :P

In the case of RPS, I just don't feel like it's appropriate because not everybody is okay with such a thing. And I just don't like the fact that they twist their wonderful friendship into something that it's not. I just fear that they will get the feeling that they are encouraging this and stop being so affectionate in public. And that would be a shame :(

[matimate.livejournal.com]

I think this DJ is the same as RPS. I agree but the fame mus deal with such things, if you are popular you face the other coin of it and simply ignore that for your own good. However most of them which I read was very badly written so ...there is another type of ofence:)))