(YMMV, of course)
I generally tend to avoid real person fiction as it sometimes makes me feel a bit ooky, even when it's not in extreme circumstances or a touchy subject(Heath Ledger anyone?) but I've noticed this quite a bit in past excursions.
You've got an actor(or a musician or a politician, etc. pick one, it doesn't matter). You've got a slash pairing in the summary and goldarnit, you're going to make that slash pairing happen! It's reasonable enough, the two actors have costarred in one or two movies and there's definitely room for some chemistry in there. But why oh why are you having Lawrence Olivier going to Walmart? Or Jeffrey Dean Morgan on a pirate ship?(not real examplesyet.)
I check the summary. Nope, not a crack!fic. Been played pretty straightfaced up until that point, if a bit melodramatic and OOC. So...why? Do you really need to invent crazy circumstances just to get your OTP, especially when there are so many in character ways to get them together? Real people, though not part of a well-documented canon like most fictional characters are, have certain rules that apply to them and have exhibited a certain set of behaviors. No, I don't know that Viggo Mortenson will accidentally book a gay cruise and wind up rooming with Orlando Bloom...but there's a pretty good chance that would never happen.
And worse, don't suddenly turn it into a drama when it's been pretty friggin' cracky all along. It gives your readers whiplash.
If you're doing a crackfic good for you- all the more power to you for cooking that pot of crack!soup. Go the whole nine yards, make it a crack fic through and through, don't get your melodrama and wangst in my peanut butter.
If I'm laughing at the utter ridiculousness of your plot until you throw cancer or something in there to sober it up, I think you're doing something wrong. Gerard Way shouldn't bang his brother, go mall shopping, and then get killed in a drive-by all within the space of a few chapters.It makes me make this face @_@ and wonder what I just spent the past half-hour doing.
TL;DR, Keep crackfic crack, try to keep your RP fiction believable you crazy kids, you.
I generally tend to avoid real person fiction as it sometimes makes me feel a bit ooky, even when it's not in extreme circumstances or a touchy subject(
You've got an actor(or a musician or a politician, etc. pick one, it doesn't matter). You've got a slash pairing in the summary and goldarnit, you're going to make that slash pairing happen! It's reasonable enough, the two actors have costarred in one or two movies and there's definitely room for some chemistry in there. But why oh why are you having Lawrence Olivier going to Walmart? Or Jeffrey Dean Morgan on a pirate ship?(not real examples
I check the summary. Nope, not a crack!fic. Been played pretty straightfaced up until that point, if a bit melodramatic and OOC. So...why? Do you really need to invent crazy circumstances just to get your OTP, especially when there are so many in character ways to get them together? Real people, though not part of a well-documented canon like most fictional characters are, have certain rules that apply to them and have exhibited a certain set of behaviors. No, I don't know that Viggo Mortenson will accidentally book a gay cruise and wind up rooming with Orlando Bloom...but there's a pretty good chance that would never happen.
And worse, don't suddenly turn it into a drama when it's been pretty friggin' cracky all along. It gives your readers whiplash.
If you're doing a crackfic good for you- all the more power to you for cooking that pot of crack!soup. Go the whole nine yards, make it a crack fic through and through, don't get your melodrama and wangst in my peanut butter.
If I'm laughing at the utter ridiculousness of your plot until you throw cancer or something in there to sober it up, I think you're doing something wrong. Gerard Way shouldn't bang his brother, go mall shopping, and then get killed in a drive-by all within the space of a few chapters.It makes me make this face @_@ and wonder what I just spent the past half-hour doing.
TL;DR, Keep crackfic crack, try to keep your RP fiction believable you crazy kids, you.
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