Oh dear

[sholio]

So I said I wasn't going to sign up for anything else ...

But someone in comments pointed me at family_haven -- it's a ficathon for stories about friendship/family relationships and OH DEAR, I can feel myself sliiiiiding. (And I just saw that the due date isn't until February, so ... perhaps I will sign up for it? Maybe?)

Signups are here if anyone on my flist is interested! It's multifandom, and the fandoms are:

Supernatural
Numb3rs
Fullmetal Alchemist
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Medium
Stargate Atlantis
NCIS
Naruto
X-Men (canon/movie/evolution)
Harry Potter

(So many of my fandoms! Oh help!)

Comments

[scrollgirl]

Ooh, that does sound interesting! And the date is way past all the holiday fests as well...

However, I have no idea what the mod is talking about here: That includes placing the actors that play family in the show in a relationship of any kind. Weird. RPF isn't one of the fandoms listed, so what does it even matter? But if the purpose of that rule is to protect innocent readers from incest, I don't see what the actors have anything to do with it, unless they're related to each other!

[sholio]

Hmm, I didn't really notice that when I was skimming the rules, but I guess I don't consider RPF a totally separate thing for fanfic purposes, so if they aren't specifically disallowing RPF it makes sense that they would include rules referring to RPF in the various fandoms that they're allowing? I dunno ... it doesn't really bother me the way it would if, say, the ficathon allowed het but not slash, or whatever. Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem like an unreasonable extension of the no-incest rule.

[scrollgirl]

I kind of assumed RPF wasn't an allowed fandom since I generally see them listed as separate from their source fandom--SPN vs SPN RPF, for example. But even if they allowed RPF, I don't see how pairing actors who play family falls under "incest". David and Kate Hewlett, sure, but Jared/Jensen?

Don't mind me... Perhaps I'm being too sensitive, worrying about different standards for RPF versus other fandoms.

[zillah975]

Yeah, I don't get it either. Maybe they're worried people will try to get around the no-incest rule by writing stories where the actors have smutty roleplay scenes as their related characters?

[scrollgirl]

LOL! I suppose anything is possible, but wow, talk about cognitive dissonance. No smutty role-play incest in my family-oriented fic! I mean... *hands*

(Romantic relationships aren't allowed to be foregrounded, in any case.)

[sholio]

Heh, yeah, and I'm totally the wrong person to ask, since RPF is very much not my thing, so I have no idea how much emotional bleed-through there is between actor and character ... maybe for some people, it would trip the squick, and for others it wouldn't. Maybe they're trying to head something off at the pass that hasn't ever come up and is in fact extremely unlikely; maybe it has come up and the rule is to deal with that; I just don't know. *flails* I do know that some of the weirder rules in the SGA Genficathon were put into place because at least one person actually did those things (which I had never in a million years expected) so I had to make a rule to cover it.

The mod has me friended on LJ, so I could point her over here if you want to ask!

[scrollgirl]

I've sent the mod a private message, so no worries on that count. She's been very patient in explaining! I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind it, though you have a good point that sometimes ficathon rules evolve in weird ways because people do strange and unexpected things, and it feels like you have to anticipate everything!

There could be some bleed-through between actor and character for the reader--certainly fandom has, at times, been notorious for losing sight of that divide. It still feels wrong to me, though, even if I don't read much RPF nowadays.

(Anyway, I asked and RPF isn't on the list of allowed fandoms.)

[tielan]

...

I hate you. Don't do this to me, dammit!

[sholio]

Hey, if I have to be tempted, my entire flist has to be tempted. Just spreading the fun!

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Oh, good lord. This is not good for me.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

ahaha, tell me about it. *g*

[margec01.livejournal.com]

LOL! Since I'm a reader not a writer, I'm looking forward to it all. But don't kill yourself! Though I suppose being frazzled will be inescapable.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks! :) Yeah, a little frazzling is inevitable, but it's supposed to be fun, after all.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

You are soooooo gone! :D