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mandragoraDamn you! *glares at certain people on her friends-page* Because of you I've spent way too much time reading various RPS stories recently. And very good they are too.
Because those damned RPSers have recced some of the bloody creme de la creme, haven't they? So of course they're good.
*glares*
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julad with your damnable links to various well-written stories. And then uschickens compounded the offence by emailing me with a copy of a story that is no longer available on the net, not to mention another bleeding link.
Not only have I found myself searching out Nsync (and yes, I do know that I'm spelling it wrong) websites to look at pictures of the band so I can work out which is which but I also found myself idly musing what their music sounds like. Oh, I know I'll have heard their records, but I've never actually paid attention to them so don't consciously know what they sound like. I thought to myself for one moment, wonder if I should go and search out the music, too. And then I caught myself, because, dude (to use a word commonly found in Nsync stories *g*), I mean boybands. Really not my thing.
However, I think I can understand better why so many people fell so hard and so fast for the fandom. But I'm still bewildered at the lack of discretion shown in publishing the stories. Maybe it's the lawyer in me, but if I wrote RPS I'd be password protecting any website containing RPS stories like mad.
On the plus side, when I was in Sainsbury's earlier today looking to see if there was any Nsync CDs on sale so I could see if I recognised any of the song titles (for the record there were none although there were lots of other boyband CDs on offer. I conjecture that this means that Nsync aren't as big in the UK as in the US) I came across a copy of The Undertones Greatest Hits. And so I pounced. Because. The Undertones, best band of the 1980s that never made it big. Ah, the memories.
I occasionally get dragged along to 80's music club type affairs and watch the DJ spinning record after record with a bored look on their faces. Until I go up and ask them if they've got any Undertones. I have never yet failed to see their face light up and moments later Teenage Kicks (it always seems to be Teenage Kicks) is blasting out. And if the dance floor wasn't packed before, it is then. Undertones, never fails.
Must go and play the CD.
Because those damned RPSers have recced some of the bloody creme de la creme, haven't they? So of course they're good.
*glares*
Yes, I blame you
julad with your damnable links to various well-written stories. And then uschickens compounded the offence by emailing me with a copy of a story that is no longer available on the net, not to mention another bleeding link.Not only have I found myself searching out Nsync (and yes, I do know that I'm spelling it wrong) websites to look at pictures of the band so I can work out which is which but I also found myself idly musing what their music sounds like. Oh, I know I'll have heard their records, but I've never actually paid attention to them so don't consciously know what they sound like. I thought to myself for one moment, wonder if I should go and search out the music, too. And then I caught myself, because, dude (to use a word commonly found in Nsync stories *g*), I mean boybands. Really not my thing.
However, I think I can understand better why so many people fell so hard and so fast for the fandom. But I'm still bewildered at the lack of discretion shown in publishing the stories. Maybe it's the lawyer in me, but if I wrote RPS I'd be password protecting any website containing RPS stories like mad.
On the plus side, when I was in Sainsbury's earlier today looking to see if there was any Nsync CDs on sale so I could see if I recognised any of the song titles (for the record there were none although there were lots of other boyband CDs on offer. I conjecture that this means that Nsync aren't as big in the UK as in the US) I came across a copy of The Undertones Greatest Hits. And so I pounced. Because. The Undertones, best band of the 1980s that never made it big. Ah, the memories.
I occasionally get dragged along to 80's music club type affairs and watch the DJ spinning record after record with a bored look on their faces. Until I go up and ask them if they've got any Undertones. I have never yet failed to see their face light up and moments later Teenage Kicks (it always seems to be Teenage Kicks) is blasting out. And if the dance floor wasn't packed before, it is then. Undertones, never fails.
Must go and play the CD.
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Date: 21 September 2003 13:25 (UTC)*winces*
That bad, huh?
Would you like some more recommendations, btw? *g*
No!
*g*
Am Not Gonna Get Sucked In.
Or at least I'm not right now. *g*
I do have some ethical qualms still. Having read a few Nsync stories I can quite see that they are in no way really about the band or its members, that's quite apparent. As I wrote earlier I can also see the attraction now, whereas it rather bewildered me before. However, I am also conscious that the stuff I've read has been towards the 'vanilla' end of the market.
Many of the stories are really rather sweet (some are positively charming), or address serious issues such as the unremitting pressure to look good (and there aren't many women who haven't experienced that particular pressure). I doubt that most media-savvy types would take exception to those.
But I also know that there are death stories out there, and rape stories and I can't believe that there aren't stories that are extremely rude about existing partners (knowing how threatened some people get in FPS when their BSO is in a *gasp* relationship etc).
The thought of those stories makes me...uneasy. Because I can't help thinking of the likely reaction to the wife/girlfriend of a band member if she stumbled across a story in which she was either dead or made out to be the most horrible bitch in existence. I suppose that they quickly get to learn that many of the fans are going to dislike them, but knowing that and reading a story that distorts them in the most horrible way. Well, I think many people would be creeped out in that situation.
The 'good' writers are probably not going to write that sort of crap (by 'crap' I'm referring to the getting rid of or dissing the partners of the BSOs), but given that it has the power to creep me out in FPS, I know that it will creep me out even more in RPS. It's for that reason that I can't help thinking password protection is a good idea, as much as from any legal POV. Because although I think there's no reason why the 'good stuff' can't be openly out there, the thought of the significant other of an PRS subject stumbling across some of the stories out there does make me profoundly uneasy.
And given that distinguishing between the good stuff and the crap isn't really possible on an objective basis, password protecting all of it is the way I wish it would go.
But as I have zero say in the matter obviously it isn't going to happen.
I would also say that whereas I have no problem in reading about a fictional character being raped and tortured (having written such a scenario, obviously I don't have a problem with it) the thought of such a story being written about a real person, even their media persona, does cause me qualms. Ditto for death stories.
I can't say that there's a hard and fast line for me, because the boundaries really are blurred but those type of stories do squick me when they feature living people.
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