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Another way to look at it is how would YOU feel knowing that there are people out there writing dirty fiction about you and someone you work with and it’s out there for anyone to read?
Would you want someone you love to accidentally stumble on a dirty work of fiction of you and a one time coworker banging and you’re not with your Significant Other because you’re not in love with them and any children you have either don’t exist or are just props for publicity?
What about your sexuality being changed or called into question? Let’s just say for the sake of the argument you’re Gay and just the idea of kissing a member of the opposite sex in an intimate manner makes you uncomfortable but here’s a dirty piece of fiction with you banging a member of the opposite sex because they “turn you on” and the writer claims that there’s no way someone hot like you isn’t in to the opposite sex and you’re never seen in public with someone of the same sex that you’re obviously dating and you’ve never talked about dating so you must be Straight.
Or on the other hand you’re Straight and just because you’re never seen out in public with someone of the opposite sex and only seen with friends of the same sex you must be Gay and might be in a relationship with one of them, why else after your weekly lunch would you and the same friend linger longer than anyone else talking and you touched hands? In reality you’re just comforting your friend who needs comforting because of things happening in their life and you know what it’s like because you had a similar experience and this weekly lunch and conversation is the only break they get from whatever is happening.
Now, I think about it the restaurant setting could work if you’re Gay and eating with a platonic friend of the opposite sex that just needs a friend during a trying time and like a good friend you’re there for them.
Celebrities already have to deal with a lot of crap with paparazzi chasing them for photos to sell to the highest bidder/people offering tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for pictures of their weddings, the first pictures of their children, heck ANY pictures of their children will do and nosy people interrupting their outings for pictures and autographs. The least you can do for them is not speculate about their love lives and demean them for choosing the spouse they chose or question their Sexual Orientation.
If the idea of ANYONE questioning you’re Sexual Orientation and you’re feelings for your Significant Other upsets you in any way than it no doubt upsets them.
As @benperorsolo said: fictional characters are one thing because at the end of the day they’re not real and won’t be disturbed by any situations they might be put into.
In fact the ONLY person that might be upset by things done to fictional characters will be their creators. Which is why some authors have asked that no fan fiction be written on their works and some creators, in the days before the Internet, wrote cease and desist letters to Fanzines where certain character pairings were concerned.
I think real person shipping is fine as long as the shippers acknowledge that it is a hypothetical AU with no basis in reality. Trouble starts when people start acting like the two celebrities in question are really dating or should date, and their actual partners are obstacles in the way of their true love. I'm somewhat fine with, say, someone writing an AU about an actor dating his co-actress. But problems arise when people want him to dump his wife for said co-actress in real life.
Ehh, I still don’t really like RPFs because you are by nature writing romantic/sexual fic about real people who did not consent to be depicted in that manner. It’s different when you’re talking about a person’s character they play, because a character can’t/doesn’t have to consent. But I think it’s at best hazy to assume that just because a person is famous to some capacity that you don’t have to ask consent to write them in romantic, especially explicit, situations.
Leia: okay, now that the Empire is on stable footing I believe that it’s time to do something about the Hutts.
Vader, who’s been waiting for years for this moment, runs off and reappears with wheeled chalkboards, charts, entire portfolios etc, in thirty minutes: we must take swift and decisive action! The Hutts and their criminal empire have been a stain on the galaxy too long! We need to leave no survivors!
Leia, taken completely aback by the presentation material: shouldn’t we try negotiating with them first before we attack?
Vader: the Hutts are scum and delight in the torture of others. They feed those that disappoint or annoy them to wild animals that they hold captive and watch; Jabba the Hutt is known to feed people to a Snarlacc where they slowly digested over the course of a thousand years.
Leia, taken aback by Vader’s fury: surely not all of them are that bad.
Vader: they own and sell slaves on top of running Spice Smuggling Operations and commit countless of crimes.
Leia, not wanting an argue, looks over everything that Vader brought to the meeting: how long have you planned this attack?
Vader: since the formation of the Empire; your predecessor was content to keep the Hutts around as they had their uses.
Leia, tired but not at all surprised: of course he did
A round in the garden makes me want to cry and laugh at the same time. This disaster of a man is doing mental gymnastics and its so sad and horrific what palpatine put him through to wave his metaphorical I'm more great lightsaber. Like here Leia is showing basic kindness and he's going. Wait. Is the allowed? Imagine Leia is like. Okay we need to deal with the Hutt somehow. And it's internal screaming in all ends. Oh this is good. I love sunday morning dramas.
HDHSGTHE thank you!!! and yeah it's just a calamity all around.