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[luciazephyr]

Stephen, really, stop mentioning fanfiction on your show. It freaks me the fuck out and you gotta stop it. I have enough trouble with is already.

Honestly, if he promised to never say the word "fanfiction" on air ever again, I would die a happy woman.

:skittish like a cat:

-Luce

Comments

[heidi-wiggin.livejournal.com]

It makes you skittish?
I think he means it as a compliment... a little wink to us here in the tubez.

*looks around nervously*
right?

[mercystars.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think he means well! If he was really bothered by it, we'd have all gotten nasty letters from some team of lawyers by now.

[4amcoffee.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read any of the fic on ColbertNation?

There's this monumentally disturbing and hilarious RPS with Stephen and Papa Bear.

[erinptah]

When he mentions it in an approving sense, shouldn't that make you have less trouble with it?

The major distinction between RPF and other fanfiction is that, with RPF, there's the possibility that it'll be found by the people you're writing about. And the major moral qualm is that the people might not like to be written about in that way. (At least, as I understand it. Is there some other element that makes you uncomfortable?)

So if the people mention it with amusement, or at least nonjudgmentally, isn't that better than having them not mention it at all (in which case they could be secretly horrified for all you know)?