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

[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.)