In general, trying to map RPF fandoms onto media fandom models is--difficult.
I don't think big sprawling multi-page fandoms is a problem with RPF the way it is with FPF. But what is difficult is showing the more tenuous connections. All J2 is CWRPF, but not all CWRPF is J2, and some C.Kane is both and lots is neither, and when is fanning Jensen Ackles an RPF activity and when is it a media fannish activity?
So, if we make each Real People page its own category and put Christian Kane in the Chris/Steve category, the Kane category, the CWRPF category and the J2 Cateogy and the Jossverse RPF category, does that solve anything by making the connections that way?
And then Lotrips is the Lotrips page and the related people pages, and if Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom start shooting two different TV series in Vancouver and everybody writes fic about them huddling for warmth, then what is that? A whole new fandom? Two new fandoms? Because there's also fic about Elijah and his co-star Danneel Harris (see what I did there?) and there's fic about Orlando and Adam Lambert too.
And what do I put on the What We Keep page? (multifandom RPF shared universe) Every fandom that has a story attached to it?
Or....
Somewhere in my journal is a conversation about AO3 tags that's got some thoughts on creating a hierarchy for RPF fic that has some info from people knowledgeable about aspects of the fandoms that are outside my area. This is what AO3 is trying to deal with via metatags, and I confess I don't see yet how that will function in that environment.
The general idea we were discussing there was a few broad main categories--Actor RPF, Music RPF, Historical RPF, Sports RPF--and then someone brought up 18th century composers and said where do they go--music or historical, and I banned them for muddying the waters--okay, I didn't really.
But if Actor RPF was a category that listed everything from Lotrips to J2 to good ole' Christian Kane, would that achieve anything?
If a music RPF category showed Bandom and Popslash and the My Chemical Romance page, and J pop and those composers in wigs--that might be useful. And could that lead to broader focused pages that compare Bandom and Popslash and Beatles RPF?
I think we have to ask ourselves what the goal is for navigating these pages to know the answers, and I'm not too clear on that. Sorry you asked?
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I don't think big sprawling multi-page fandoms is a problem with RPF the way it is with FPF. But what is difficult is showing the more tenuous connections. All J2 is CWRPF, but not all CWRPF is J2, and some C.Kane is both and lots is neither, and when is fanning Jensen Ackles an RPF activity and when is it a media fannish activity?
So, if we make each Real People page its own category and put Christian Kane in the Chris/Steve category, the Kane category, the CWRPF category and the J2 Cateogy and the Jossverse RPF category, does that solve anything by making the connections that way?
And then Lotrips is the Lotrips page and the related people pages, and if Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom start shooting two different TV series in Vancouver and everybody writes fic about them huddling for warmth, then what is that? A whole new fandom? Two new fandoms? Because there's also fic about Elijah and his co-star Danneel Harris (see what I did there?) and there's fic about Orlando and Adam Lambert too.
And what do I put on the What We Keep page? (multifandom RPF shared universe) Every fandom that has a story attached to it?
Or....
Somewhere in my journal is a conversation about AO3 tags that's got some thoughts on creating a hierarchy for RPF fic that has some info from people knowledgeable about aspects of the fandoms that are outside my area. This is what AO3 is trying to deal with via metatags, and I confess I don't see yet how that will function in that environment.
The general idea we were discussing there was a few broad main categories--Actor RPF, Music RPF, Historical RPF, Sports RPF--and then someone brought up 18th century composers and said where do they go--music or historical, and I banned them for muddying the waters--okay, I didn't really.
But if Actor RPF was a category that listed everything from Lotrips to J2 to good ole' Christian Kane, would that achieve anything?
If a music RPF category showed Bandom and Popslash and the My Chemical Romance page, and J pop and those composers in wigs--that might be useful. And could that lead to broader focused pages that compare Bandom and Popslash and Beatles RPF?
I think we have to ask ourselves what the goal is for navigating these pages to know the answers, and I'm not too clear on that. Sorry you asked?