The original post did not touch on RPF at all. Indeed, as I read it, reallize it wasn't coming out of a "fandom" place at all and I'm not quite sure how her post made it to metafandom.
the two major ways of viewing rpf: people who write it/negotiate it based on "canon" (here meaning what the celebrities say about themselves/present to the public) and people who write/negotiate based on a loose interpretation of what the celebrity says about themselves, picking and choosing and making up the details as they go along. // The first sort of fan/writers gets very invested in the persona projected by the celebrity because they are using it as on a day to day basis to negotiate their fannishness. The second sort tends to ignore whatever material comes along they dislike.
Well, two things: 1) There doesn't seem to be anything about these approaches which is unique to RPF; instead, they seem to describe different fanwriter approach to (the use of) canon in fanfiction in general, and 2) There seems to be less a qualitative difference--much less a diametric opposition!--between these two approaches than they seem to be points on a spectrum. A multi-dimensional spectrum at that; there are nuances here as AUs, OOC characters, crackfic, use of fanon, writing fics without knowing (all of) canon, slashing presumably heterosexual characters, etc. are all subtly different than each other. Yes, RPF canon-formation is more complex than in FPF (although Who fandom or comics fandoms may well come close), and what counts as canon may be negotiated among fen to a greater deal than with FPF, etc., but both the manifold positions on how to utilize canon seems to be no more or less diverse in one type of fanfiction than the other. And I have no clue how my own RPF writing (or that of my favorite RPF fics to read) fall within these continua.
And I'm not quite sure what you're claiming your two views to be equivalent with, either. I can see how some anti-RPF individuals might be said to hold the first view of RPF (and thus condemn us all as tinhats!) but in most of the RPF meta (and metafandom links quite a bit!) I've read the canonical response is to claim they don't actually understand what is going on in RPF.
Oh, your postmodernist views are showing under your skirt!
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the two major ways of viewing rpf: people who write it/negotiate it based on "canon" (here meaning what the celebrities say about themselves/present to the public) and people who write/negotiate based on a loose interpretation of what the celebrity says about themselves, picking and choosing and making up the details as they go along. // The first sort of fan/writers gets very invested in the persona projected by the celebrity because they are using it as on a day to day basis to negotiate their fannishness. The second sort tends to ignore whatever material comes along they dislike.
Well, two things: 1) There doesn't seem to be anything about these approaches which is unique to RPF; instead, they seem to describe different fanwriter approach to (the use of) canon in fanfiction in general, and 2) There seems to be less a qualitative difference--much less a diametric opposition!--between these two approaches than they seem to be points on a spectrum. A multi-dimensional spectrum at that; there are nuances here as AUs, OOC characters, crackfic, use of fanon, writing fics without knowing (all of) canon, slashing presumably heterosexual characters, etc. are all subtly different than each other. Yes, RPF canon-formation is more complex than in FPF (although Who fandom or comics fandoms may well come close), and what counts as canon may be negotiated among fen to a greater deal than with FPF, etc., but both the manifold positions on how to utilize canon seems to be no more or less diverse in one type of fanfiction than the other. And I have no clue how my own RPF writing (or that of my favorite RPF fics to read) fall within these continua.
And I'm not quite sure what you're claiming your two views to be equivalent with, either. I can see how some anti-RPF individuals might be said to hold the first view of RPF (and thus condemn us all as tinhats!) but in most of the RPF meta (and
Oh, your postmodernist views are showing under your skirt!
Guh?