Over the last week, we received many responses to the question how RPF can operate without a canon text, the majority of them among the lines of much the same way non-RPF fandoms do: by constantly negotiating fanon interpretations. It
Why is RPF different?
When writing about RPF, there is one crucial question that makes it different from other parts of fandom (generally accepted as media fandoms). How does it work without a clearly-defined centralcanon text to play with? MARTIN, Anna (2014). Writing the
On Bernie Sanders RPF and how fans participate in the branding of political candidates
Political real person fiction (RPF) builds on the public identities of politicians, using their media appearances, social media activity, and campaign platforms to provide the source texts, or “canon,” of the fiction. Similarly to writers of fan fiction who depict
[Guest Post] Monstrous, hockey-robot Omegas
This week, we have a guest post for you from Elise Vist, who is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. *** Two years ago, I sat down with my supervisor for three hours as we came to
The biopic viewer, like the fan fiction reader, can choose to compartmentalize the variations on the celebrity’s star image. However, the legitimized Hollywood film is branded with a greater connection to truth than RPF fan fiction, with the latter often
A residual effect of this closeness was that the “real” personalities and lives of bandom subjects threatened to overwhelm the creative aspect of RPF. Studies of RPF often focus on the inherent flexibility of celebrity identity, because it allows authors