Why it is okay to ship real people with other real people:

appolsaucy:

So in a post today mostly unrelated to what I want to talk about,  John Green stated, “It’s not okay to ship real people and other real people.” I respect John Green in all ways, but I disagree 100% with this statement, and I want to clear up why Real Person Fiction is not actually wrong.

The first important issue to cover is that RPF is not tinhatting is not harassment. If you ship something, you like to think about it, write about it, draw it, joke about it, talk about it with your friends, and it makes you happy in your own little corner of the world. This is okay. Tinhatting is when you believe your ship is really happening in real life and the Powers That Be are hiding it from you. This is also okay, until it becomes harassment, which is when you throw your ship into the involved people’s faces repeatedly in spite of requests to stop and you say nasty stuff about their girlfriends to them and generally make everybody unhappy. This is never okay.

But that’s not what shipping is, and that’s not what RPF is. The first point I want to make here is that RPF is not actually about real people.

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kirkwoodisinoregon replied to your post: kirkwoodisinoregon replied to your photo: Well,…

I am writing a huge fic of them, so THERE WILL BE MORE. But yes, there needs to exist more, because with all that they give us, it’s ridiculous.

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but yes omg

i will never forgive the fact that THERE IS NO FIC ABOUT HIM TEACHING HER TO WALTZ

what the actual fuck

SHE FUCKING TWEETED THAT SHIT?!?!?1

how does a fandom not jump all over that i don’t understand

zambonirider replied to your post: lmao I’m honestly so confused, because like…why should he have had to tell you? They act like he’s someone they’ve met or who they see around work all the time so they think he’s available but then it turns out he’s married. Do people seriously think he was gonna meet at them one day and go “OMG WOULD YOU LIKE TO DATE ME??” and they’d get married? He didn’t need to tell random people he was married because he’s not cruising the dating pool and looking to cheat - he’s taken, it’s not an issue.

Pretty sure they’re just as likely to get invited into a threesome with him and his hot wife than they were to have teh sex with him before they knew he was married. Where is the bad there?

fffffffffff

You just made me want Susannah/Tom/Jaimie.

Q:I wrote RPF of Tom/Jaimie for you (as an early Christmas gift). But now that he's married, I feel like such a creep. I can't post it. It makes me sick even thinking about it (my fic, not the ship). I'm sorry.

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Oh, sweetheart, don’t be sorry!

I mean, haha I was just saying on Twitter about how I still want Tom/Jaimie for Yuletide (or… FOR ANY REASON) because the most important part of RPF for me is the whole FICTION part and recognizing and understanding that that’s what it is. It’s taking their public personas and creating fictional characters based on them and having fun while understanding that this is not any reflection on them as real people! So I don’t think you should feel creepy, BUT your feelings are yours and I respect them and the fact that you don’t feel comfortable posting it.

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