I definitely know what you mean about actors as characters. That feels like a very real barrier between actors and the public, and one that's necessary and healthy for all involved; it'd be madness if it were otherwise, but some actors seem a lot more comfortable taking on that role than others. I personally have yet to find any of this RPF that people reference that's invasive to the point of crossing lines for me...but then again I don't swim in RPF circles to begin with. I barely know the ethics of that sort of thing once you're actually trading in true RPF.
And I don't know if that's some form of snobbery of me, talking about "true RPF" because I think of that generally as the "Benedict x reader" stuff or the freebatch real person shipping stuff, like actor!Benedict and actor!Martin and actor!Amanda putting the kids to bed and getting it on behind closed doors. I'm not interested in that stuff, and I wonder if it's a form of snobbery on my part that that's what I consider "true RPF" and what I digest -- this actor/fictional world crossover stuff to be "pseudo" RPF. Anyway, pardon the tangent, it's just been something rolling around in the back of my head for a few days.
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Date: 2014-06-30 01:50 am (UTC)And I don't know if that's some form of snobbery of me, talking about "true RPF" because I think of that generally as the "Benedict x reader" stuff or the freebatch real person shipping stuff, like actor!Benedict and actor!Martin and actor!Amanda putting the kids to bed and getting it on behind closed doors. I'm not interested in that stuff, and I wonder if it's a form of snobbery on my part that that's what I consider "true RPF" and what I digest -- this actor/fictional world crossover stuff to be "pseudo" RPF. Anyway, pardon the tangent, it's just been something rolling around in the back of my head for a few days.