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writing, painfully good fan fiction, my priorities and other related issues, but the frelling bronze age daggers won't let me.

So, instead, here's simply a link to the latest example of painfully good fan fiction that I've found:

'Thing', by Cimorene and Wax Jism. Warning: slash (R/S, cause I admit unashamedly to having become a puppyshipper): http://www.waxjism.net/pickle/stories/thing.html

(Edited to add: Just took a look at the website this story is hosted at and must confess to my total non-understanding of many slashers' fascination with boy bands and other Pretty Young Men. Not to mention the need to *slash* them. Yuck. Oh well, the story I just recced is still great.)

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starryvelvetsky.livejournal.com

In my previous PYT meant one of my pretty boys (Eri in the specific case I was speaking of) and OC was an original character based off of Ian McKellen.

And no, I never write real person slash. I'm guilty of reading one specific pairing (maybe closer to a variation of pairings) in Orlando Bloom/Viggo Mortensen/Sean Bean. But yeah... it's reading, not writing. The only one of those that I think has a background that (I think) is reasonably slashable is Orlando. VM and SB as real people would be squicky to write. They both have wives and children to consider too.

As far as writing, I agree with you. If I wanted a member of nSync (or the Fellowship actors) in my fic, I'd create a fictional entity and give him Lance or Viggo's (or Ian's) face. It'd be a matter of me not getting the real person squick from writing it, and frankly I think I'd make the fictional character more interesting than the real person anyway. ;)

(And I'm probably all over the board with pervy-ness. I have sexual characters in my writing from age 15 to 82. Darn it, I *like* pervy-ness. *giggle*)

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hmpf.livejournal.com

>In my previous PYT meant one of my pretty boys (Eri in the specific case I was speaking of) and OC was an original character based off of Ian McKellen.

Gotta check out your fic, someday. After all, I've chatted with Eri a few times! It should be nice to see him again. Hehe.

>And no, I never write real person slash.

Well, then you're not really a 'guilty party' (as per your own description), are you?

>I'm guilty of reading one specific pairing (maybe closer to a variation of pairings) in Orlando Bloom/Viggo Mortensen/Sean Bean. But yeah... it's reading, not writing.

Oh. Oooookay. Well... at least you don't write it. *g* (Hey, even if you did... it may not be my cup of tea, it may even be something I consider vaguely wrong in a moral sense, but I don't think it's bad enough for me to actually want to strike you off my friends list, neither in LJ nor in actuality. I'm not *that* judgemental. ;-))

>The only one of those that I think has a background that (I think) is reasonably slashable is Orlando. VM and SB as real people would be squicky to write. They both have wives and children to consider too.

Uhm... so writing them would squick you, but reading them doesn't? That's strange... methinks. And what exactly is the difference between Orlando and the other two?

>As far as writing, I agree with you. If I wanted a member of nSync

*shudder* (Sorry... very high dislike for anything boyband-like here. Although I've been compared to a one-person-boyband once by a friend. Yeah, I have weird friends, but I love them. My friends, that is, not boybands. *g*)

>(or the Fellowship actors) in my fic, I'd create a fictional entity and give him Lance or Viggo's (or Ian's) face. It'd be a matter of me not getting the real person squick from writing it, and frankly I think I'd make the fictional character more interesting than the real person anyway. ;)

Yep, that's rather an important point for me, besides the squick effect. Real people, especially actors and the like, aren't all that interesting to write about! About most of them you don't really know a lot, and what you know is what their PR people tell you, so it probably only contains truth in homeopathic doses. And really, unless the vapid Hollywood lifestyle is one of your special turn-ons, what *could* you possibly write about such people? (But then, that is probaby the freaky fantasy angst pervert in me speaking.) Of course, you could write pure PWP porn about them, but that I have always found rather boring - especially since in so many cases the characters are really interchangeable.

>(And I'm probably all over the board with pervy-ness. I have sexual characters in my writing from age 15 to 82. Darn it, I *like* pervy-ness. *giggle*)

LOL. Well, I don't think 82 is that pervy... 15 is borderline pervy, though, although I do concede that many people *are* sexually active at that age, and not in a context that would be considered child molestation. It's just a weird idea to me to be turned on by someone that young. I totally get the sexiness of Ian McKellen, on the other hand. (Okay, he's not 82 yet...)

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starryvelvetsky.livejournal.com

> Gotta check out your fic, someday. After all, I've chatted with Eri a few times! It should be nice to see him again. Hehe.

Eri is still around and in multiple forms. I have 4 different versions of the boy playing in different universes. Sadly, I don't have any more proper archived fic with him in it. He's kind of a roleplay character now.

> Uhm... so writing them would squick you, but reading them doesn't? That's strange... methinks. And what exactly is the difference between Orlando and the other two?

I read it occasionally when I run across it and can't find any proper LotR slash that I'm interested in. It's read with a bit of squick factor and a lot of laughter. It required a big suspension of disbelief, IMO. And the reason Orlando is more plausible is that he's had slashy real-life moments with openly gay and bi friends. (And also he's not married or involved at the moment as far as I know) *shrugs* Less suspension of disbelief with him than with Sean Bean, a long-time married man with children.

> And really, unless the vapid Hollywood lifestyle is one of your special turn-ons, what *could* you possibly write about such people?

Exactly. It's rather boring. And one can only read so many "met and fell in love on the set" stories before it gets old. But... when in the mood for fic and that's all you seem to run into...