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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:349:Brotherly [[Music/MagicalMysteryTour love is all you need.]]]] |
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| 8 | ->''"While browsing Platform/LiveJournal for Sharks icons, I found this multi-part epic about [Evgeni Nabokov] and Joe [Thornton] getting it on. Didn't read much (RPS ain't exactly my cup of tea), but apparently it revolved around the playoffs last year and the two of them comforting each other after the Sharks were eliminated. And by comforting, I mean butt sex."'' |
| 9 | -->-- [[http://www.fearthefin.com Fear the Fin]] writer '''mymclife''' [[http://tinyurl.com/qxze72u on the subject of pro athlete slash]] |
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| 11 | Also known as Celebrity Fic, this is basically fanfiction based on the real life of one or more celebrities (as opposed to a strictly fictional canon). Just as how people find fantasies and interpretations within their favorite fictional characters, so, too, do they find them in celebrities. Any and all fanfiction tropes can apply (for example, it could decide to base itself around the [[HighSchoolAU high school days]] of the celebrity, create a RelationshipSue to vicariously live out a relationship with the person, use them as part of a HurtComfortFic, etc.). The possibilities are endless and often just disregard the celebrity's history, personality, etc. in order to facilitate the plot (or, often, just the particular fetishes of the author). |
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| 13 | However, it's just as likely that a fic will be relatively accurate, based on knowledge of the celebrity's "real lives" gained from interviews, blogs, tweets, etc. Increased interactivity between actors/bands/whoever and their fans makes it extremely easy for ficcers to include canon details into their work. This avoids factual inaccuracy, although there's probably a fine line between research (good) and stalking (bad). |
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| 15 | Also common in this genre is for the celebrity to meet the fictional characters that he or she is famous for playing as. They might either coexist in the same universe (this is a flimsy premise at best) or there's some sort of alternate universe with travel between them. |
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| 17 | The final theme which turns up a lot is fics which blur the line between Character {{Shipping}} and [[ActorShipping Cast Shipping]]; depending on the quality of the acting, it's often easy to read real-life relationships between the actors in the emotions their characters portray towards each other on screen. These sorts of fics are often set in and around the filming of the show, to the extent that frequently they're just plain ol' show fics in disguise; the actors will often take on the traits and ideas of their characters and go through similar emotions and experiences. Somebody will tell you that there's some sort of metaphor in there for [[ContemplateOurNavels the duality of the actor and the character]], or something. |
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| 19 | There is some level of controversy surrounding this genre. For some people, the mere existence of Real Person Fics -- especially {{lemon}} fics -- is a case of {{squick}}, while others don't see them as wrong as long as the tone is kept respectful. Then, there are those for whom anything goes because it's unlikely the "protagonist" will ever read the fic anyway and will do everything from CharacterDerailment to {{Gender Bend|er}}ing to unceremoniously killing them off. (That last can sometimes be [[IDoNotOwn legally dangerous]], though.) |
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| 21 | Website/FanFictionDotNet has not allowed Real Person Fics (with the exception of those featuring [[HistoricalDomainCharacter historical figures]]) since 2002, but that doesn't stop anyone. Most of them are [[https://www.fanfiction.net/misc/X-overs/ hiding here.]] |
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| 23 | The existence and popularity of [[http://ratmmjess.livejournal.com/246860.html "Celebrity Pulps"]] makes this OlderThanTelevision—but that's just the reasonably modern form of it. Technically, Creator/WilliamShakespeare's historical plays [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples could count]], pushing it to OlderThanSteam, as historical accuracy was not a going concern when his main object was to entertain Elizabethan crowds! It's not only that they didn't need to follow actual history precisely, political biases also seeped into his work, partly to make it palatable to the Crown, partly due to inheriting the biases already extant in his sources. |
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| 25 | And that's not even to count possible older examples. UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat had tons of romantic/fantasy tales written about him, over 300 years after he died. If religious texts like Literature/TheBible or Literature/TheQuran mention historical figures, they're likely to be this. |
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| 27 | Compare HistoricalDomainCharacter. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | AlternateHistory is ''not'' always RealPersonFic; even if sites like Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom have ''settings'' which feature individuals like Bill Clinton or Tiger Woods; they are more of a BitCharacter in the narrative, depending on who's the focus. |
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| 31 | Not to be confused with when a SelfInsertFic doesn't even bother with an AuthorAvatar and the author just puts themselves (and their friends) in. They could theoretically overlap, but not a lot of big-name celebrities are known for writing fan fiction after all. If they and their friends are the subjects rather than inserts, however, it's a flavor of RPF known as "friendfic". For a bittersweet variety, see CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven. If they're survivors of a disaster, they're [[CelebritySurvivor Celebrity Survivors]], and in a SuperFic, they may be part of a CelebrityMasquerade. OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs is typically the result of the "subject" finding out about these. |
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| 34 | !!Examples: |
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| 36 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 39 | * There's a fanfic out there in which anime voice actor Creator/VicMignogna is kidnapped by Music/JustinBieber fans and gets rescued by members of his fan club, the Risembool Rangers. Reportedly the story amused Vic so much that he has a framed copy on the wall of his home. |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 43 | * Although the fandom seems to have died down a little, there were days when The Goth Detectives (the temporary comedy duo of Russell Brand and Noel Fielding) had a nice big fan-following with lots of slash fics to be found. That seems to be shrinking in direct proportion to the rise of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' RPS. (Most of it predictably being Julian Barratt/Noel Fielding, though have been reportings of a Julian/''Michael'' Fielding fic.) |
| 44 | * There are communities devoted to the pairing of Creator/HughLaurie and his long-time comedy partner and best friend, Creator/StephenFry. According to Creator/StephenFry, during his most recent appearance on ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'', he was subjected to a reading from one of these fics. It was cut from the broadcast, though. |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 48 | * "Eight Pagers" -- the softcore porn comic strips published in the depression era -- usually featured fictional characters of the time (such as ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} and Olive Oyl) but sometimes starred well-known actors or sports personalities. What those portrayed made of it is not recorded. Also known as "Tijuana Bibles". |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 52 | * ''Fanfic/SupermanAndMan'' has Creator/ChristopherReeve exchanging bodies unwillingly with ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''. |
| 53 | * Some of Creator/HansVonHozel's works. And in a site where it's supposedly forbidden, although it's sometimes a result of confusion caused by IAmNotLeonardNimoy and TheDanza. This doesn't stop reviewers from threatening to report him, though. |
| 54 | * The ''RWBY'' Subreddit fanfics ''Fanfic/TheGreatMetaFic'' and ''Fanfic/MetaFicAltRisingWar'' are based on Reddit shipping contests, thus nearly all characters are based on real people. |
| 55 | * The ''Fanfic/{{Unholyverse}}'' series is a ''Music/MyChemicalRomance'' AlternateUniverse fic where the supernatural is real, Gerard is a priest, and Frank is a piercer, who after receiving a mysterious tattoo is starting to undergo rather ''painful'' miracles. |
| 56 | * While ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/881056/chapters/1695818 The Battle of New York: Take 2]]'' is primarily a ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' fanfic, it's centered on the production of two different movies based on the titular event, and thus discusses real actors and directors (with the two movies being directed by Creator/DavidFincher and Creator/MichaelBay, respectively). We also get some cases of in-universe QuestionableCasting (among other interesting choices, Bay chose Music/FiftyCent of all people to play Nick Fury) and a nice MythologyGag (Fincher cast Creator/EdwardNorton as Bruce Banner -- the actor played him in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'' before being replaced by Creator/MarkRuffalo in all future movies). |
| 57 | * ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomerse'': Two of the stories features [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Paul London]] as a passenger on the Infinity Train, mixing bits of his life with wrestling storylines. He's mostly based off of his Rabbit Tribe character in ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground'' but also alludes to a few real-life tidbits like the death of one of his allies, Wrestling/AshleyMassaro. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 61 | * In the {{novelization}} of ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', the InUniverse fic Mei and her friends write include 4*Town as well as being a SelfInsertFic. |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 65 | * Creator/SueMary somehow believed that Wrestling/DwayneJohnson and Creator/StephenMerchant were [[AsHimself playing themselves]] in ''Film/TheToothFairy'', leading to her story ''Tooth Fairy 2: Literature/RedDragon Rising'' using their names for the characters instead of who they portrayed. |
| 66 | * There are metric buttloads of RealPersonFic taking place behind the scenes of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. There's a [[http://community.livejournal.com/bloomwood_ LJ community]] dedicated to the "Orlijah" pairing (Creator/OrlandoBloom and Creator/ElijahWood). |
| 67 | * There was an explosion of this, mostly about Creator/ZacEfron and Creator/VanessaHudgens, after ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' came out. |
| 68 | * Creator/ZacharyQuinto, Creator/ChrisPine and Creator/KarlUrban (Spock, Kirk and [=McCoy=] in the 2009 ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]'') are starting to get a lot of this. If it's about the first two, it's called "Pinto". If it's the about the last two, it's called "Urbine". |
| 69 | * There's been quite a healthy [[PortmanteauCoupleName RDJude]] (Creator/RobertDowneyJr[=/=]Jude Law) community around the 2009 ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 Sherlock Holmes]]'' film. |
| 70 | * ''Film/TheATeam'' KinkMeme has gotten a good deal of this, especially Creator/LiamNeeson[=/=]Bradley Cooper, Bradley/Sharlto Copley (called "Coopley"), and a bit of Sharlto/Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. |
| 71 | ** For [[Series/TheATeam the original series]], RPF featuring Creator/DirkBenedict[=/=]Creator/DwightSchultz has gotten several prompts and fills. |
| 72 | * ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' has a steadily growing RPF community, with a large portion of its KinkMeme geared towards it. Because of the nature of the film, there's also some rather interesting layers going on, what with fic about the characters, fic about the actors playing the characters, fic about the real people the characters are based on, and every imaginable combination of crossover therein. |
| 73 | * Following ''Film/TheRunaways'', there are several stories between Creator/DakotaFanning and Creator/KristenStewart as well as the original people they played. |
| 74 | * Sometimes it's hard to distinguish whether some fanfics are Thor/Loki in the character sense or a disguise for Creator/ChrisHemsworth[=/=]Creator/TomHiddleston. |
| 75 | * A rather good one called "Every Celebrity's Worse Nightmare" features Creator/MeganFox, Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/KristenStewart, Creator/AmandaSeyfried and Creator/AlysonMichalka all trapped in a house with over 200 male fans causing a riot outside. |
| 76 | * After the release of ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', there have been a few fanfics about Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/ElleFanning. At least one or two involve Jolie breaking up with Creator/BradPitt before meeting Elle (which is rather interesting since, if online news is to be believed, Elle herself is in a relationship with a schoolmate). |
| 77 | * One called "The Ultimate 90's Party" involves Music/TaylorSwift holding a 90's themed party in her house, with many guests including Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/JenniferLawrence, Creator/DanielRadcliffe, Creator/MilaKunis, Creator/AshtonKutcher, Creator/MeganFox, Creator/OliviaWilde, Creator/ShiaLaBeouf, Music/JustinTimberlake, Music/MileyCyrus, Music/JustinBieber (who is the fic's butt monkey), Creator/KristenStewart, Creator/BrieLarson and even special guests from 90's movies and shows such Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/CharlizeTheron, Creator/MillaJovovich, Creator/AsiaArgento and even Creator/MacaulayCulkin and Kieran Culkin. |
| 78 | * After the success of Film/CallMeByYourName, a considerable number of fans became fervent shippers of Creator/ArmieHammer and Creator/TimotheeChalamet, writing numerous stories where the two get together. |
| 79 | * Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse: Following Creator/BenAffleck being cast as Batman, a legion of fanfics which paired him with Superman actor Creator/HenryCavill were spawned. The two also had a habit of fueling this, such as acknowledging their ship name "Benry" on Conan, or Cavill claiming to have vivid memories of Affleck's scent. This was despite Affleck being married to Creator/JenniferGarner at the time, and the fact that he split from Garner not long afterward only inspired more fanfics. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:History]] |
| 83 | * Historical slash. Slightly less tawdry than other real-person fic, at least in premises -- because history has basically lent the [[HistoricalDomainCharacter various personages an air of being fictional anyway]]. Founding Fathers slash, [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution French Revolution]] slash, etc. |
| 84 | * The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_romances Alexander Romances]] date from the third century CE. |
| 85 | * ''Fanfic/TheSonOfTheEmperor'' is a biography and ComingOfAgeStory of Napoleon II of France. Which plays alongside the ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' universe. |
| 86 | * Around the early 2000s, there was a glut of fics about [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank Anne Frank]]. One author was [[EveryoneHasStandards so disgusted]] that he parodied the trend with ''Fanfic/UntilTheEndOfTime'' - [[ParodyDisplacement which became more well known than the fics it was parodying]]. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 90 | * RalphNader's AuthorTract ''Literature/OnlyTheSuperRichCanSaveUs'' has real celebrities and billionaires saving the world. |
| 91 | * There is a short story on Website/DeviantArt in which Creator/HPLovecraft meets Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. No, really. It appears our friendly neighborhood CosmicHorror writer is [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee quite the]] {{fanboy}}, too. |
| 92 | * [[http://the-toast.net/2013/09/17/oscar-wilde-and-walt-whitman-did-it/ This article]] amounts to a light erotic piece about Creator/OscarWilde and Creator/WaltWhitman. Even better (for people who are into it): it's almost certainly true. |
| 93 | * ''Fanfic/WeLeadTheWay'' drops real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus US Army General David Petraeus]] into Westeros, placing him in the body of an ordinary archer in Robert's army during Robert's Rebellion. |
| 94 | * ''Literature/TheBrontesWentToWoolworths'' (1931, reprinted by Bloomsbury, 2010), a novel by Rachel Ferguson, is actually ''about'' RPF. A slightly bohemian British family roleplay fantasy characters as well as imagined versions of various public figures. It's full of running gags, catchphrases and British absurdist humor of Radio/TheGoonShow variety. Deirdre, the narrator, describes it as a kind of compulsion based partly on love of theater and partly on open-mindedness to psychic phenomena. During a seance, they connect with the ghosts of Creator/CharlotteBronte and Creator/EmilyBronte; later they meet a very much alive subject of their "Saga", an elderly judge, who with his wife begins to warmheartedly play along. Ferguson was a huge Brontë fan and wrote a play about Charlotte as well. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 98 | * ''Fanfiction/CharlesMansonVsTheTeletubbies'' features Charles Manson himself trying to coax Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa and Po into his cult by stealing their tubby custard. |
| 99 | * HeterosexualLifePartners Creator/JensenAckles and Creator/JaredPadalecki tend to get this a lot. |
| 100 | ** And now Creator/MishaCollins (who plays [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Castiel]]) gets shipped with Jensen all the time, presumably because they're just good-looking. |
| 101 | *** He gets slashed with Jared, too, sometimes. [[OT3 Misha/Jensen/Jared]] is more common, though. |
| 102 | ** Richard/Jared, Richard/Misha, Mark P/Misha, Mark P/Richard, Misha/Jim, Jim/Mark S, JDM/Jim, not as prominent, but known. |
| 103 | * ''Series/TopGearUK'' slash. A particularly eyebrow-raising example involved Jeremy Clarkson raping Richard Hammond... who then sought comfort in the arms of James May. [[http://community.livejournal.com/topgearslash/ Have the comm. You will need a Livejournal to join.]] |
| 104 | * ''Series/TheDailyShow''. Which people? ''All of them.'' This can get very weird when both Creator/StephenColbert and [[AlterEgoActing the character with the same name]] end up in the same fic. [[ScrewYourself Which happens more often than you'd think.]] |
| 105 | ** There is a lot of Pundit Slash involving Creator/AndersonCooper, Creator/KeithOlbermann, Colbert, Creator/JonStewart, and others. ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12667/chapters/16118 The 28th Amendment]]'', a series begun by fan writer bessemerprocess, describes Vice President Mike Huckabee assuming the presidency after the death of President John [=McCain=] and ramming through legislation [[DystopianEdict declaring all laws must conform to Holy Scriptures]]. Cue [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica an upsurge in anti-LGBT hate crimes, [=McCarthyesque=] hearings and assorted journalists trying to escape with their lives]]. This was written in 2008. (The author has caught the true sound of Keith's voice in the Congressional hearing and Special Comments.) |
| 106 | ** A much tamer story, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3164145/1/Commentary "Commentary"]], reads like a typical ''Daily Show'' report, only set in the Marvel Universe, as Jon Stewart and Ed Helms report on the [[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Superhero Registration Act]] and ComicBook/SpiderMan's public unmasking. |
| 107 | * There's a fairly large fanbase for the actors of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', especially Colin/Bradley. |
| 108 | * There's a small but very active fandom for ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' fics. |
| 109 | * There is a small group of "Mayjim" ficcers, fans of {{Series/The Big Bang Theory}} who ship Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik, who play BetaCouple Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler. |
| 110 | * This is quite popular in the ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' fandom, usually pairing Creator/DrakeBell and Josh Server, and occasionally Jerry Trainor, who plays Crazy Steve in the Nick series, together. As themselves, usually in the future as musicians and actors. |
| 111 | * People ship Creator/DavidTennant with Creator/JohnBarrowman, though more ship him with Creator/JohnSimm. |
| 112 | ** More than a couple of people ship David and Creator/BilliePiper. |
| 113 | ** Some people ship David with Creator/CatherineTate, too. |
| 114 | ** And while ''Series/DoctorWho'' RPS is typically limited to new Who actors, there is floating around on the internet Creator/PatrickTroughton[=/=]Creator/FrazerHines slash. |
| 115 | ** Then there's [[http://sam-storyteller.livejournal.com/129218.html this]] story, written in response to David's shocked reaction when he was exposed to Doctor Who slash fic on a British chat show. This RPF story suggests his costars from ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', and ''Film/HarryPotter'' all teased him by showing him that oh, there was ''so'' much more than that. |
| 116 | *** Actually, David had a rather brilliant comeback himself after hearing the slash fic sample: they'd accidentally found [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments John Barrowman's blog]] instead. |
| 117 | ** Creator/MattSmith[=/=]Creator/KarenGillan shippage seems to be thriving thanks to their RL chemistry. |
| 118 | ** Matt[=/=]Creator/AlexKingston is also heating up. |
| 119 | ** Somewhat tamer, there was a fic called "[[http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=574 Auditions]]" by Adrian Tullworth written when all we knew about the new series was that it existed, featuring Creator/RussellTDavies, Lorrainne Heggassy, Greg Dyke, and a string of potential companions. |
| 120 | ** Creator/JohnBarrowman is shipped with everyone, because he is 100% irresistible man-candy. |
| 121 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILw7ffL5RGs this]] ''Series/MockTheWeek'' clip, Frankie Boyle informs Hugh Dennis of some SlashFic he found featuring the two of them. |
| 122 | * Lily Loveless and Kathryn Prescott exhibited so much chemistry as the (canon) ''Series/{{Skins}}'' pairing of Naomi and Emily that [=LilyKat=] fic is increasingly popular. |
| 123 | * Creator/WilliamShatner and Creator/LeonardNimoy have been getting this since the original ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' series. |
| 124 | * Creator/AaronSorkin has figured in several ''Series/TheWestWing'' parody-fics, mostly in ones devoted to making fun of what happened to the series after he left. And there's a Murder On The Orient Express parody with Aaron as [[spoiler: the killer]], Amy as Ratchett, and [[IntrepidReporter Danny Concannon]] as Poirot. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/892560/1/Murder_on_the_Campaign_Express Check it out here.]] |
| 125 | * ''Series/ICarly'': |
| 126 | ** Creator/NathanKress[=/=]Creator/MirandaCosgrove (known as Niranda or Mathan) fic has recently become as popular as fic for their on-show couple ship Freddie/Carly. |
| 127 | ** Creator/JennetteMcCurdy[=/=]Miranda is somewhat popular too. |
| 128 | * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' fans ship actors Creator/DavidHenrie and Music/SelenaGomez. |
| 129 | * Pairing ''Series/AmericanIdol'' judges and contestants is also common, especially [[PortmanteauCoupleName Saula]] (Creator/SimonCowell and Music/PaulaAbdul.) There's even an entire [=LiveJournal=] community dedicated to same sex idol/idol {{fanfiction}}. (Kris and Adam was probably a field day for them.) |
| 130 | * Creator/LeaMichele and Creator/DiannaAgron of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fame. |
| 131 | ** Creator/HeatherMorris and Creator/NayaRivera get this as well |
| 132 | *** Same goes for Creator/ChrisColfer and Creator/DarrenCriss. |
| 133 | ** Really, you can pick any two ''Glee'' actors and ''somebody'' out there probably writes fics about it. |
| 134 | * Back when [=ColbertNation.com=] was made to look like a fansite for ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as opposed to the official site, among the "fan-submitted" contents was an intentionally SoBadItsGood Creator/StephenColbert x Bill O'Reilly fic. The original page is gone, but the contents have been preserved [[http://wikiality.wikia.com/Colbert_Nation/Shorts_Weather here]]. |
| 135 | * Check any section of a popular Creator/DisneyChannel show or movie (Such as ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' and the ones starring Music/MileyCyrus, Music/SelenaGomez, Music/DemiLovato, or Music/TheJonasBrothers) on Fanfiction.net and you'll find them without much effort. A smilar section is also on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn under the Disney RPF tag. |
| 136 | * ''Series/BigTimeRush'', as the main characters are [[TheDanza named after themselves]], there's a lot of slashing going on with the four boys. Of course, issues with characterization might just mean that the fic in question just got their last names wrong, but mostly, [=RPFs=] are written for setting. |
| 137 | * There is [[http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Granada/90550/ an entire community]] on [=FF.N=] for crossover fics between the canon of Literature/SherlockHolmes and the real-life cast of [[Series/SherlockHolmes the Granada series.]] Creator/JeremyBrett naturally gets the most focus for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that more is known about him than either of his [[TheWatson Watsons]], David Burke or Edward Hardwicke. However, all three actors interact with their allegedly-fictional counterparts in these crossovers. (Note that not ''all'' the stories in the community are true crossovers -- some are simply based on Granada's [[FanVerse 'verse]].) |
| 138 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': There are quite a few 'Matteney' (Matthew Perry/Courteney Cox) stories floating around, and the characterization is pretty similar to Mondler (Chandler/Monica) the couple they played on the show. This is kind of understandable though as 1) Both actors are pretty similar to their characters and 2) They've flat out admitted that their relationship is almost exactly like Monica and Chandler's "except for the sex." And the fanfic authors take care of that. |
| 139 | * 99.99999% of fanfics about ''Series/TheVoice'' seem to involve [[Music/{{Maroon 5}} Adam Levine]] and Music/BlakeShelton falling in love with one another, often with the other coaches trying to be TheMatchmaker. |
| 140 | * They're not always easy to find, but there are a number of {{Series/Mythbusters}} fanfics. The nature of these stories vary naturally, but often they involve the sort of myths you wouldn't see on the show, like trying to figure out if the Necronomicon is real or testing myths about vampires. |
| 141 | * In Fanfic/SeanBeanSavesWesteros, the [[RealPersonFic "real life"]] Creator/SeanBean is transported into the land of Westeros of Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire after finishing up Season 1 of HBO's Series/GameOfThrones series. Now ''living'' as Ned Stark, not just playing him on TV, Sean tries his damnedest to divert the course of the War of Five Kings and save Westeros. Because he's read all (season-one-current) books in Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire, Sean has a ''huge'' edge in surviving the political machinations of Westeros. In addition, his study of British history and lifetime as an actor come in handy. And, because Sean ''knows'' he's a ChronicallyKilledActor, he goes out of his way to keep himself alive as the "resurrected" Lord Eddard Stark. |
| 142 | * In ''Fanfic/SuperSentaiVsPowerRangersTheLiveblog'', several {{Franchise/Power Rangers}} and {{Franchise/Super Sentai}} actors show up as the heroes, saving Rika from the main villains and occasionally snark on the fics along the way. The section for ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Power Rangers Samurai'' has [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Ryota Ozawa]], [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Alex Heartman]], [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Jason Smith]], and [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Sean Cw Johnson]] as the main group; the later chapters of ''Super Sentai vs. Power Rangers'''s arc adds [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Rin Takanashi]], {{Creator/Mao Ichimichi}}, [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Brittany Anne Pirtle]], [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Christopher Khayman Lee]], and [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Dan Ewing]] into the mix. |
| 143 | * Fanfic/PowerRangersAnimalStrike has K-Pop group BLACKPINK as a harem for the Red Ranger. |
| 144 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Co-stars Creator/LanaParrilla and Creator/JenniferMorrison, who play the popular pairing Regina/Emma, have a bunch of fanfics that pair them together to this day, years after the show has ended. A lot of these try to play them as being in a secret relationship at the time the show aired or realizing that they have feelings for each other years later. There are also a bunch of fics with Morrison and the actor who plays her on-screen love interest, Creator/ColinODonoghue. Some fanfics pair up Creator/EmilieDeRavin and Creator/RobertCarlyle together, despite Carlyle being happily married for years. |
| 145 | * ''Series/{{Legacies}}'': Creator/DanielleRoseRussell and Creator/KayleeBryant have both expressed support of fans shipping their characters Hope and Josie. This unsurprisingly has led to a bunch of fans writing fanfics about them being together, particularly on Wattpad. The two being very affectionate and calling each other "Wifey" also helps inspire these writers. |
| 146 | * ''Series/The100'': Similar to her character, Clarke, Creator/ElizaTaylor has fanfiction that pairs her with all of her co-stars. The ones she is usually paired with the most are Creator/AlyciaDebnamCarey, due to her playing Eliza's love interest Lexa, and Creator/BobMorley, who played her most popular fanon partner Bellamy. This is helped by the fact that Eliza and Alycia are good friends and Eliza is married to Bob in real life. Some fics pair all three together, either as a love triangle or OT3 type situation. |
| 147 | * ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' fans love to write fanfiction about Creator/SarahPaulson, either through SelfInsert or by pairing her with her co-stars. She and Creator/LilyRabe are the main ones who get paired in fanfiction, due to their real life friendship and playing one of the fandom's most popular ships, Cordelia and Misty in ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven Coven]]''. Some fanfics pair her with Creator/EvanPeters due to the two being the most recurring actors. Evan Peters is also often paired with Creator/TaissaFarmiga, who played his love interest in ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Murder House]]'' and ''Coven'', and Creator/EmmaRoberts, who he dated in real life. |
| 148 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': There are more than a few “Demily” or Creator/DavidBoreanaz and Creator/EmilyDeschanel fics around. This is despite David being married during his run as Booth and Emily getting married during the series. David’s personal issues that surfaced during the series may have added to the idea. |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 152 | * Music/TheBeatles seem to lend themselves quite well to this due to their almost mythical status. This is probably because of their relatively short lived career, leading a lot of fans who want more than just the decade of activity filling in more of what they view should have happened after 1970. It also helps that there are three movies featuring them as themselves, each one goofier than the last. ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' is a particularly famous example. |
| 153 | ** Fandom invokes Music/JohnLennon's ambiguously questionable sexuality in 99.9% of the fics with sexuality. Interestingly enough, most of these fics don't include Brian Epstein, their openly gay manager -- or, when they do, he's at most {{Starboarding}} for Lennon. (The film ''TheHoursAndTimes'' is an exception.) |
| 154 | ** Poppy Z Brite wrote a speculative piece for Nerve magazine about what would happen if John married Music/PaulMcCartney instead of Music/YokoOno. |
| 155 | ** Creator/SpiderRobinson's short story "Rubber Soul" speculated on a reunion between Paul and John in the future, in which Paul has John placed in [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] after he was shot, giving him the opportunity to recover. In a stealth pun, John was brought out of suspension in the year 2004 at the chronological age of 64. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me..." |
| 156 | * Songs by the Music/BlueOysterCult crop up a ''lot'' in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics written by Creator/AAPessimal, who would appear to be a devoted fan. Justified, as Creator/TerryPratchett makes a lot of [[DontFearTheReaper one particular song]] and has alluded to others in the Discworld canon. |
| 157 | * Perhaps because of his flamboyant nature, people just love to use Music/DavidBowie as a character in their fanfiction. |
| 158 | ** There is also a fair amount of [[ScrewYourself Bowie on Bowie]] fanfiction, clearly due to his numerous personas. |
| 159 | ** Bowie even got a professionally-published slash fic, the film ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'', which is very transparently Bowie/[[Music/IggyPop Iggy]]. |
| 160 | * Most {{Boy Band}}s are ripe for [[SlashFic slashing]] due to their prepackaged FiveManBand archetypes. |
| 161 | ** When fanfic writers for Music/TheBeatles worked more modern Boy Bands into their fics, things got ugly; even, or maybe especially, those who were tweens thought Boy Bands were necessarily evil. There is one Beatles fic, "Angelic Sins," that attempts to make the group 98 Degrees into villains. (This one also has Music/{{Metallica}} as a friendly presence despite kidnapping Music/JohnLennon -- this was completed before the Napster scandal and ''St. Anger.'') |
| 162 | ** The fandoms for Music/{{NSYNC}} and Music/BackstreetBoys are largely credited for jumpstarting the idea of using Livejournal as a fandom platform as the site was started right around the time of the height of the bands' careers. These two fanbases are even credited in Fanlore as the being the genesis for many of the major common fandom experiences and gradually making the idea of RPF much less taboo among fandom circles. |
| 163 | * Bandfics, either involving {{original character}}s varying in quality to bandslash. The bandslash ends to be significantly better written than the Sue!fic but significantly less concerned with reality. Quizilla was particularly infamous for "bandfics", starring people from any band that featured a moderately attractive male, from Music/SimplePlan to Music/AllTimeLow and everything in between. |
| 164 | ** Essentially the basis of Pete Wentz's entire career. Both within his own band, Music/FallOutBoy, and between all of the bands on his label. "Bandom" is practically synonymous with Pete Wentz in said circle. |
| 165 | ** There are numerous fanfics of the various members of Music/MyChemicalRomance, usually involving bandslash or the band members becoming teachers in the fan's school or something along the lines. |
| 166 | * The cult British indie band Music/TheLibertines are probably only remembered now as being the group that brought supermodel-chasing drug-botherer Pete Doherty into the public eye. That band's dissolution hinged on Doherty's initially intense but later fractious (although not gay) relationship with guitarist Carl Barat. The band's self titled (and final) second album [[http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/libsdom/Carl%20and%20Peter/libertines.jpg cover]] sees a vacant, mildly distressed Barat cradling a collapsed Doherty. All this inevitably led to the band getting more RPS fics than any non-BoyBand. The ''NME'' printed an article on indie-rock-RPS that was illustrated with a real (just-about SFW) fanart piece showing the two kissing. |
| 167 | * After The Libertines split, Music/FranzFerdinand became the main focus of bandslash in British rock music, stimulated by the rather homoerotic lyrics of some of their songs and Alex Kapranos's ambiguity about his sexuality. |
| 168 | * Go on Website/YouTube. Now, in the search bar, type in ''any'' word that has some sort of relation to love or romance, or could be used as a cliche metaphoric word in a love poem. Now, count how many "Music/JonasBrothers Love Stories" you find. And it doesn't just have to be a love-related word. Sometimes typing in completely random words like "stairs" and "lunch" will also get you pages of these. |
| 169 | * There is ''Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds'' slash out [[http://community.livejournal.com/ficcing_seeds there]]. One wonders if the band knows. |
| 170 | * Music/XJapan is pretty much ''the'' TropeCodifier for Japanese rock/metal bandslash -- their love of male/male onstage fanservice, having actually ''written and performed'' at least one song that is openly about gay sex and their most famous cover being a song with heavy HomoeroticSubtext, their even endorsing the early slash doujinshi, and three members of the band being actually bisexual leads to everything from fanfic to fanart, of varying degrees of respectfulness and quality. The main FanPreferredCouple|s are [[OfficialCouple Yoshiki/hide]] and [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Yoshiki/Toshi]], but other fics involve Taiji/Toshi, Yoshiki/Heath, Yoshiki/Sugizo, [[FoeYayShipping Taiji/Yoshiki]], [[PairTheSpares Pata/Heath]], Taiji/hide, Pata/Taiji, Sugizo/Heath, and [[LoveDodecahedron various combinations thereof]]. |
| 171 | ** Yoshiki himself has also been written in slash fic with ''nearly everyone else in the VisualKei scene,'' most commonly Creator/{{Gackt}}, Atsushi Sakurai of Music/BuckTick, both Music/{{Die}} and Music/{{Shinya}} of Music/DirEnGrey, and Music/{{Miyavi}}, though the last suffered a case of AbandonShipping with both Miyavi's marriage and Toshi's return to the band. |
| 172 | * Gackt, usually slashed with some other J-musician. These include most guys he's worked with, especially Hyde, Miyavi, Mana, Kami and Masa. |
| 173 | ** Japanese rock and metal bands fall under bandslash. Nearly any band will have some. Some bands don't mind the slash, others are... less welcoming. That said, some bands also have a BrokenBase even if the band itself doesn't mind the slash, where non-participating fans will loathe the participating fans as "yaoi fangirls" or "gay," often with some subtext of homophobia (e.g. the angry fans don't get half as angry over heterosexual fics when they exist, or even write those themselves) |
| 174 | * Music/AdamLambert is the new focus of the Series/AmericanIdol slash fandom. Out of all the other contestants on the season, he's most often paired with Kris Allen. |
| 175 | * Tarja Turunen/Tuomas Holopainen is surprisingly popular amongst Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} fans. |
| 176 | * It's rare, but British indie singers Music/PatrickWolf and Edward Eke (formerly known as Edward Larrikin) are occasionally shipped together. And, oh, it gets better. There's an entire Livejournal community devoted to Patrick Wolf fanfics. |
| 177 | * Perhaps due to an unfortunate combination of {{Bishonen}} and IWasQuiteALooker, there does exist Music/PeterGabriel-era Music/{{Genesis|Band}} SlashFic, usually pairing him with Music/TonyBanks, but sometimes Music/PhilCollins gets a turn as well. |
| 178 | * Music/TokioHotel gets this, like from here [[http://www.twckaulitz.com here]] and [[http://www.tokiohotelfiction.com here]] and [[http://tokiohotel-fff.get-forum.net here]]. Tends to mainly be {{Twincest}} shipping between Bill and Tom Kaulitz or band member/fan/AuthorAvatar fics written by younger fans. Proceed with caution. |
| 179 | * Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda of Music/LinkinPark had a very close friendship up until Chester's death in 2017, and as a result, many a fanfic written about them. They even have a PortmanteauCoupleName of "Bennoda". |
| 180 | * Also, Music/{{Aerosmith}}. Most SlashFic about them is Joe Perry/Steven Tyler, but if you can dream up an Aerocouple, fic for it probably exists. |
| 181 | * Music/{{Radiohead}}. ''Radiohead''. There's a small but infamous community on the internet that specializes in writing slash fic, termed "cheesecake" after a... prolific fic involving lead singer Thom Yorke and Michael Stipe of Music/{{REM}} doing things to each other with the dessert. Popular pairings include Thom/lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, Jonny/bassist and brother Colin Greenwood, and Colin/guitarist Ed O'Brien. Drummer Philip Selway is left out of the equation 99% of the time. |
| 182 | * Music/{{Rammstein}} isn't exempt from this either. The fact that the guys aren't adverse to [[HoYay simulating sexual acts with each other]] on stage and in their videos adds plenty of fuel. Of course, there are also the WishFulfillment stories of pairing one of them with a female character that's essentially an AuthorAvatar or AudienceSurrogate. |
| 183 | * There is a small but dedicated community writing sordid fic involving members of Music/{{MarilynManson}} and Music/{{NineInchNails}}. |
| 184 | * A Music/GirlsAloud RPF called ''Girls (Scream) Aloud'', a {{Gorn}}-filled snuff fic that rivaled the infamous ''Power Rangers'' fic ''Agony In Pink'' in utter awfulness, was deemed so obscene that the author was arrested and taken to court (but eventually acquitted). This was the first prosecution for criminal obscenity relating to unillustrated prose in the UK for over thirty years. Allegedly, the reason the author was taken to court was because the band itself discovered the story and were convinced that their lives were in jeopardy. Yeah, it was ''that'' horrifying. |
| 185 | * Guns 'n' Roses and/or Velvet Revolver RPF is out there, a lot of it being Axl Rose and Slash. |
| 186 | * Music/{{Rush|Band}}-- yes, the Canadian prog band-also has a fandom with surprising amounts of horny fangirls eager to ship (the typical Rush fan is AlwaysMale). Geddy and Alex, being HeterosexualLifePartners, are the ones most often shipped. |
| 187 | * Three words: Music/JustinBieber [[http://www.justinbieberfanfiction.com fanfiction]], the most infamous being the WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants [[FanFic/OneLessLonelyGurl crossover]]. |
| 188 | * There isn't a lack of Music/OneDirection [[http://onedirectionfanfiction.com/ fanfiction]] on the internet. It is also one of the biggest fandoms on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. |
| 189 | ** This actually may have led to their extended hiatus-there are rumors of fans who only wanted to see them get together that instead only worsened tensions between the bandmates, to the point some of them don’t speak to each other anymore. |
| 190 | * Then there is [[Creator/MonicaGilbeyBieber this]] Music/FallingInReverse SlashFic starring a SelfInsert shipped with Ronnie Radke. The fic is actually quite well-written. |
| 191 | * Due to all of the HoYay moments between Chris and Jonny from Music/{{Coldplay}}, this is inevitable. |
| 192 | * Perpetrated by ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic author Creator/AAPessimal in the ''Literature/GoodOmens'' fic ''All The Best Tunes?'' on his A03 account, which not only takes the VirtualSoundtrack to extreme levels but also deals with Real People, many of whom are still living. Justified, as angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley are sponsoring rival musical talents in the 1940s to 1970s. Crowley kick-starts Music/BlackSabbath, the Angel gets people like Music/CliffRichard and Music/VanMorrison, both claim responsibility for Music/TheBeatles, and Crowley whispers [[SympathyforTheDevil possible lyrics]] in the ear of Mick Jagger. Even the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four MotorcycleRiders of the Apocalypse]] get in on the act -- War (who sees rock n' roll as violence using different weapons), [[PunkRock Pestilence]], who finds more interesting things to do with garbage bags and bin-liners, Famine (who likes artistes with eating disorders and body image issues) and [[Music/BlueOysterCult Death]] get their preferred musical genres. |
| 193 | * Music/TwentyOnePilots is one of the biggest newer bandoms of the mid-2010s. There are thousands of fics on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn alone. Due to FriendlyFandoms, Music/{{Halsey}} and Music/MelanieMartinez crossovers aren't rare either. |
| 194 | * Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Af6nQ90uQ this song]] set to the tune of "Magnet" by Music/{{Vocaloid}}. Two female Youtube singers who duet sometimes, Music/JubyPhonic and Rachie, had a lot of shippers so they did a joke duet about how they're [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday very straight]] and aren't a couple. If anything however, the song ended up increasing their shipper count. They have a few fanworks about themselves as well. |
| 195 | * Music/DepecheMode has its fair share of fics, mostly found on Archive of Our Own and Tumblr. You’ll usually see Dave get shipped with Martin or Alan. Poor Fletch seems to be left out unless it’s an orgy fic. You’ll also find the occasional Sue!Fic. |
| 196 | ** Writers have also determined which member is a top or bottom based on their stage personas. |
| 197 | * Music/SpiceGirls aren't immune to this as sites like Platform/{{Wattpad} have became a favorite for both fanfics and original fics writers. They can range for the basic to DarkerAndEdgier, with the latter being the case... most of the times. ''[[https://my.w.tt/6EJYfWBRtT Into the Dark]]'' is an example such DarkFic, while others like ''[[https://my.w.tt/mtdX5kJRtT Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'' goes for the AlternateUniverseFic route. |
| 198 | * The AprilFoolsEpisodes of Podcast/{{Disgraceland}} technically count as this, and very DarkFics at that. The 2019 episode is a young Jim Morrison making a pledge to Satan and [[spoiler: becoming the Zodiac Killer]], while the 2020 one has Music/JohnDenver as an FBI agent [[spoiler: who ends up shooting JFK]]. |
| 199 | * Almost every single [[KoreanPopMusic K-Pop]] group falls into this. If the group is known well-enough then there will be fanfiction of them. There's even ''[[https://www.asianfanfics.com an entire website dedicated to K-Pop fanfiction]]'', with a few exceptions in there, courtesy of neigbouring countries. Not to mention the ones that extend to ''[[https://www.wattpad.com other]] ''[[https://www.livejournal.com fanfiction]] ''[[https://archiveofourown.org sites]]. In ships, fans would base where and who to pair members up with through how the groups interact and what is noticed when they are on camera. Whether they are displaying their stage personas or real selves is irrelevant. This is more common with popular groups who have their own shows and have frequent guestings where fans get to see more of their personalities and how they react to situations. |
| 200 | ** K-Pop groups and their agencies are very aware of shipping between [[IdolSinger idols]], garnering ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/kpophelp/comments/efqg00/do_kpop_idols_know_about_people_shipping_them mixed reactions]]'' from group members who are active on social media. These reactions range from them enjoying it, complaining about being [[OutOfCharacter OOC]] in the ones they've read, to utterly despising it. Some groups and agencies will use this to their advantage through fanservice. Of course, this only fuels fanfiction writers further. |
| 201 | ** Certain interactions between members tend to be interpreted as romantic because idols (strictly of same-sex and mostly from the same group) tend to be [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove very affectionate with each other]]. As is the case that idol groups go through a lot together, this doesn't seem to be too out of the ordinary. |
| 202 | ** In [[UsefulNotes/SouthKorea South Korea]], along with Japan, intimate affection between friends of the same-sex is seen as normal and simply being friendly. This is why a lot of idols are very [[CuddleBug touchy-feely]] and comfortable with each other that way, regardless of gender. ''[[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skinship They even have a term for it.]]'' This, however, tends to shake up the minds of fans who may not be used to seeing that, especially if it's between two men due to [[ValuesDissonance social norms being different depending on where the viewer lives]]. Hence, being shipped by fans. |
| 203 | ** This is oddly treated differently when it comes to an opposite-sex pair as interaction between female and male idol groups are quite scarce. Despite this, it doesn't stop fans at all from writing fanfiction about which two opposite-sex idols they decide to ship, regardless if they've ever interacted at all. |
| 204 | ** K-Pop and fanfiction have quite a history, going way back to first-generation K-Pop [[BoyBand groups]] such as H.O.T. and Sechs Kies, when extreme fan culture emerged in South Korea. This is explored in the [[KoreanDrama drama series]] [[Series/AnswerMeNineteenNinetySeven Reply 1997]] where the protagonist is popular amongst her fellow fangirls in her school because of her being a writer of H.O.T [[SlashFic fanfiction]]. [[spoiler: She also gets accepted into a college to study screenwriting due to her submitting one of her Slash Fics as an application.]] Amusingly, one of the members of Sechs Kies is also a main character of this series. The same series where he and his group members being written into romantic and sexual situations is used as a main plot point. |
| 205 | * Music/FifthHarmony: Fans love to write fanfiction about the band members, particularly Lauren Jauregui, who has arguably the biggest LGBTFanbase of the whole group. This mainly takes the form of "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Camren]]", pairing Lauren with Music/CamilaCabello, which became so popular that Lauren expressed discomfort with it. There is also fanfiction that pairs her with her other bandmates or some form of SelfInsert character. Dinah Jane and Music/{{Normani}} are also often paired together in fanfics, though Normani is also paired with Ally Brooke often. |
| 206 | * Fans of the Russian pop-punk band Kis-Kis have written several fanfics about them, 90% of them shipping fanfics due to Sonya Somuseva and Alina Olesheva's close friendship and ambiguous sexualities, as well as the fact that they [[HomoeroticSubtext play up the gay]] in several of their music videos.[[labelnote:*]]This is most notable in the video for their song “Podruga”, which is about a girl falling in love with her same sex friend.[[/labelnote]] They even have a PortmanteauCoupleName of "Solina". |
| 207 | ** Interestingly, the girls do appear to know about the fanfics, but seem to be okay with it as long as no one gets too crazy.[[labelnote:*]]Example: Alina was made uncomfortable by shippers frequently asking her where Sonya was, with said shippers seemingly unable to comprehend that both she and Sonya have other things in their personal lives besides each other and aren't together 24/7.[[/labelnote]] They also know about their ship name and seem to embrace it as one of their inside jokes. |
| 208 | * Music/{{ABBA}} fanfiction has sporadically been a thing throughout the 21st century, particularly on Platform/{{Wattpad}}, but the release of ''Music/Voyage2021'' has resulted in a exponential increase of stories on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. Most of it is Frida/Agnetha SlashFic, likely inspired by their interactions on-stage (singing love songs while facing each other and generally engaging in playful behavior that could be taken as flirty). |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Politics]] |
| 212 | * Back in 2004 someone actually published a humorous story in ''The New Yorker'' where an unidentified diarist who was obviously Bush confessed to having a mad crush on John Kerry. One only wonders if that author knew of the Kerry/Edwards slash being written on the net at the time. |
| 213 | * Many, ''many'' fics have seen the light of day involving American politicians, like UsefulNotes/BarackObama, John [=McCain=], and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. |
| 214 | ** Speaking of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, when the case of [[LiteralMetaphor media whore]] [[ArmoredClosetGay Jeff Gannon]] broke, many liberal bloggers [[EpilepticTrees speculated as to how Bush met the guy]]. |
| 215 | * ''Comicbook/LiberalityForAll'' features several famous conservative icons fighting an evil liberal U.N dominated United States. |
| 216 | * Forget about all the photoshops and fanfiction, even the UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers were getting in on the HoYay of the [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem 2010 British Parliamentary elections]] between Conservative David Cameron and Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg, respectively. Poor UsefulNotes/GordonBrown is pretty much left behind as the RomanticRunnerUp. Clegg's status as Cameron's personal bitch has only gotten worse in {{Fanon}} as accusations of him selling out for power pile up. That both attended very posh schools where there supposedly remains a tradition known as 'fagging' for older boys have not helped either. |
| 217 | ** It was still present in late 2012, at the halfway mark between elections. 'Cameron and Clegg renew their vows' indeed. |
| 218 | * There was a short sci-fi AlternateHistory story published in the early-to-mid 1970s which had Ralph Nader be a detective in the literary equivalent of a FilmNoir, in a DC utterly corrupted by cheating corporations. |
| 219 | * During the run-up to the 2012 US presidential election, many fanfics on the internet were created about the GOP contenders and UsefulNotes/BarackObama, perhaps most frequently about Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. This is made especially entertaining by the fact that the candidates, aside from Obama, generally have a fairly anti-gay record and some have made controversial statements regarding homosexuality. |
| 220 | ** One story in particular involved Gingrich/Romney. It crossed the line into parody when the resulting santorum turned into Rick Santorum. |
| 221 | * There is now a whole [[http://hailtotheslash.com/ online community]] devoted to this... started by a Wonkette columnist, even. |
| 222 | * Though the fic itself is lost to time there exists a list of fanfic that is supposed to be out their on different computers most of which have never found homes on the internet; including a fic described as "Blair and Thatcher couple like stoats on the grave of Nye Bevan".... [[SarcasmMode thanks so very much]] for that mental image internet, really. |
| 223 | * According to WordOfGod, Music/PetShopBoys' "I'm With Stupid" is UsefulNotes/TonyBlair[=/=]UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, and "I Get Along" is UsefulNotes/PeterMandelson[=/=]UsefulNotes/TonyBlair. |
| 224 | * Several fics exist on Wattpad shipping former president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump with other authoritarian world leaders, mainly UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin and [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Kim Jong-Un]]. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 228 | * The debate has been raging for ''years'' whether ProfessionalWrestling fic is RPF or not. It's been around for ages and [[AscendedFanboy Henry Jenkins]] has written essays on it (along with the rest of fandom). At any rate, there seem to be three different versions...first, television-based, in which the stories are about the people in the ring being exactly who they are on the show and the matches and conflict being real. Second, character-based realism, in that the wrestlers are their characters, but the matches and conflict are scripted and all part of the show, and finally, the real-person version which is based off real life. Different writers use different methods, some explicitly only write television-based, others dabble all the way down to RPF. Of course, there's also AU, but that's another trope altogether. Further subgenres include: |
| 229 | ** Back in 2001-2003, the biggest and most vocal (and also virtually ''only'') het shippers were the Smoochy Dreamers, Chris Jericho/Stephanie [=McMahon=]. Chris/Steph is nothing so much as a kindergartener pulling the pigtails of the girl he likes, and between the [[BuxomBeautyStandard boob comments]], kissing as gross-out tactic, and his seemingly extensive knowledge of her supposed sexual practices, they were ripe for shipping. |
| 230 | ** Then there's the slash. Between the [[IncestYayShipping Matt/Jeff Hardy fangirls]] to the Rock/Steve Austin subset to the [[TrueCompanions Kliqfic]], if two men were anywhere within a five-block radius of each other, you can probably find fic about them. If they were tag-team partners, it's almost a certainty. |
| 231 | ** Don't even go ''into'' the self-inserts (all the long-lost [=McMahon=] children, the Lita-Sues, the random "cousins"). |
| 232 | * In a way, professional wrestling IS this. Basically, the wrestlers are martial artists acting out how things would be if they were even more over the top awesome martial artists. It's not so much a self-insert fic as a real person fic about themselves. |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Sports]] |
| 236 | * As the quote at the top of the page attests, athletes are no exception to this trope. There is a quite healthy soccer/football slash fandom, there's been a community devoted to fic from the 2004 Athens Olympics that was reactivated for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. |
| 237 | * It is ridiculously easy to find slash about male figure skaters. |
| 238 | ** About eighty-five percent of the 2010 Olympic winter games kink meme centers around Weir, Plushenko, Lysacek, and Lambiel. The rest is Ohno[=/=]Celski, Token Straight Couple Scott Moir/Tessa Virtue (and/or their fellow ice dancers Charlie White/Meryl Davis), a few fics with Shaun White or some other snowboarder, and one curling slash request. |
| 239 | *** It got so bad the kink meme ended up divided. Skating had to go to a separate ''community'' just to accommodate the volume of skater fic (though that's partially due to a missing mod at the winter games meme). |
| 240 | ** Figure skating fandom exploded over this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtLMvr6nHcc&feature=player_embedded very short video]], in which Stéphane Lambiel kisses and then tickles Johnny Weir. |
| 241 | ** Oddly though, and this is no doubt due to the fandom dying down in between Winter Olympics, there is very little fic of Johnny Weir and his now husband, Victor Voronov. |
| 242 | ** Post- Sochi 2014, the figure skating RPF fandom seems to have focused on three pairings: two sets of actual on-ice partners, Meryl Davis/Charlie White and Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir, and the slash pairing of mens' medalists Yuzuru Hanyu and Javier Fernandez. |
| 243 | ** There is also a small but loyal contingent that ships legendary ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, aka the 1984 Olympic gold medalists who recorded the first and only perfect score in the history of figure skating. This is largely thanks to their work together on reality show ''Dancing on Ice'', though of course there are a few die-hards who have been shipping them since their competitive skating days. It's not ''that'' hard to see why; their chemistry on the ice is renowned to this day. |
| 244 | * MLB RPF is surprisingly popular. The most common pairings usually involve pitchers and catchers, for obvious reason. Also, the Oakland A's seem to be the most susceptible to being slashed. |
| 245 | * There's also a dedicated hockey RPF fandom. One of the fanfics from that fandom ("Literature/HeartInHand"), in fact, became so popular with non-hockey slash aficionados who didn't recognize the characters' names and assumed that it was original fiction that the author went ahead [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/259462/chapters/405457 and revised it into an original fic]]. |
| 246 | * Women's gymnastics is quite prone to [[YuriFan femmeslash]]. Shippers pounce upon the slightest bit of LesYay. |
| 247 | ** The fanfic shipping American Aly Raisman with Russian Aliya Mustafina warrants a special mention thanks to it becoming pretty much ''the'' [[FanPreferredCouple number one power couple]] among gymnastics fans. How popular was it? Popular enough [[http://whygfcwhy.tumblr.com/post/49620110459 that]] ''Raisman herself'' actually responded to a fan interview, wondering why people were so obsessed with her and Aliya. The fans pretty much went nuclear. |
| 248 | * There's a dedicated fandom for UsefulNotes/FormulaOne and the fanfics are usually slash fiction; popular pairings are usually between teams (e.g. Button/Hamilton, Webber/Vettel) and it isn't necessarily always between drivers -- Christian Horner is probably the most popular non-driver to appear in F1 fanfiction. |
| 249 | ** The [[WesternAnimation/{{Tooned}} Tooned]] series could be considered an official example, with Button and Hamilton getting into various slapstick antics and several past drivers being revealed [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy to have had unusual secret lives.]] |
| 250 | * Believe it or not, there is a healthy [[UsefulNotes/{{AmericanFootball}} NFL]] fanfiction community. Tom Brady/Peyton Manning seems to be a very popular [[http://peyton-tom.livejournal.com/ slash pairing]]. Brett Favre is another common subject of fanfiction. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 254 | * Pairing up Creator/KristinChenoweth and Creator/IdinaMenzel, the original ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' protagonists, is quite popular. |
| 255 | * An unhealthy number of people have started shipping Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess, the stars of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'''s 25th anniversary. The fact that Ramin is ''married'' doesn't seem to have slowed them down any. |
| 256 | * ''Theatre/KingCharlesIII'' includes, in its roster of characters: Prince Charles, Prince William, Duchess Kate, Prince Harry, Camilla, and the ghost of Princess Diana. |
| 257 | * Every named character in ''Theatre/{{Oslo}}'' is a portrayal of a real person who participated in or facilitated the Oslo peace talks of 1993 -- including Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul, her husband Terje Rød-Larsen the social scientist, Fafo Institute Executive Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian Government Officials Johan Jorgen Holst and Jan Egeland, University of Haifa Professors Yair Hirschfeld and Ron Pundak, Director-General of Israel's Foreign Ministry Uri Savir, Israeli Foreign Ministers Yossi Beilin and Shimon Peres, Finance Minister for the Palestine Liberation Organization Ahmed Qurie, and PLO Liaison Hassan Asfour. (The play itself could count as being chock full of [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Historical Domain Characters]]... except for the fact that some of the participants were still alive at the time of the 2016 premiere of the play, and not many of them could be considered "famous.") |
| 258 | * ''Fanfic/FantasiaTimes'' features several actors from Creator/TeamStarKid in supporting roles amongst its [[MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover huge cast]], all of whom are connected to [[OriginalCharacter Sera]] in some way. In fact, the person Sera is based on (one [=SeraTheAdventurer02=]) also writes plenty of real person fics involving the group. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 262 | * People apparently ship [[Webcomic/SomethingPositive Randal Millholand]][=/=][[Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots Danielle Corsetto]]. Randal was not amused. |
| 263 | * Shipping Creator/AndrewHussie and [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Hidekaz Himaruya]] became a thing that happens in mid-2011; it might be tongue-in-cheek given it's been stated to arise from both being {{Trolling Creator}}s, but [[PoesLaw who can really know with these things]]? Andrew himself came across a Website/{{Tumblr}} blog dedicated to "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Hussieruya]]" and [[http://twitter.com/#!/andrewhussie/status/111290799857213440 was mildly amused]]. |
| 264 | ** [[http://www.formspring.me/mspadventures/q/220484618011319778 Hussie weighs in on this trope in general.]] |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 268 | * Hammohamster basically defines this with her fanfic about WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, and WebVideo/TheIrateGamer slash fics. |
| 269 | ** She wrote a hateful fanfic about the Fanfic Critic on her livejournal account. The fanfic involved the internet persona brutally killing herself. |
| 270 | ** She's also written slash fanfics about political figures like Radio/GlennBeck and UsefulNotes/BarackObama (Note: the fanfic is no longer on fanfiction.net anymore. However [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkEY8qEsXrc a review can be found here.]]) |
| 271 | * The ''Podcast/MuggleCast'' guys have quite a bit written about them. It is slightly more popular amongst another spin-off podcast that they did, Smart Mouths, but... yeah. There has even been one story written by one of the hosts, though it is pretty much a ''DeadFic'' since she left for Costa Rica. |
| 272 | * There is a large amount of Website/ChannelAwesome fanfiction. |
| 273 | ** Fandom can't agree on whether it's all RPS or just some of it is. Obviously the fic where people write [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment 'Noah']] and [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall 'Lewis']] and [[Creator/DougWalker 'Doug']] doing things are RPS. But what about the vast majority of the fics, which use the names [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment 'Spoony,']] [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall 'Linkara,']] and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and have appearances of the characters [[TheSociopath Ask That Guy]], [[KillerRobot Mechakara]], and [[MadScientist Dr. Insano]]? |
| 274 | *** So it gets complicated when it actually ''is'' dark RealPersonFic. The Critic getting humiliated, tortured, beheaded, mutilated, gangbanged, snuffed and so on is A-OK, but when the KinkMeme asks for Doug abuse, everyone suddenly gets too scared to post anything. |
| 275 | ** It's also a little complicated because of the question who is really a ''character''? Sure [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]] is, [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic the Critic]] is. [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] is, same with [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick the Chick]]. But what about [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]]? WebVideo/MarzGurl? It's like a sliding scale of AlterEgoActing and the line isn't always clear when you go further down. |
| 276 | * Literotica - an adults-only fiction site - calls these "Celebrity" fics, and has an entire section devoted to them. |
| 277 | * There was an entire site devoted to celebrity fics (of varying quality), creatively called Celebrity Sex Stories Archive which ran from the early 2000's until about 2017/2018. Mostly female celebrities were featured (Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen did ''not'' take kindly to having that kind of stuff written about them, and mentioning the twins [[BerserkButton would get you thrown off the site]] for good. [[Creator/ElizabethOlsen Their sister was fair game, however]]). The site eventually shut down when the founder left it, although most of it has been archived, and the site eventually spun off into the similarly named Celebrity Story Site, which although similar, does have more rules and content restrictions in place. |
| 278 | * Youtube-celebrities [[https://www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoollike Charlie McDonnel]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/nerimon Alex Day]] were quite {{Squick}}ed to discover that [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs people had been writing slash of them]]. Charlie made a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6cTConAZBo reaction video]] as well. |
| 279 | ** Actually, most of them think it's pretty funny. [[https://www.youtube.com/user/charlieskies?blend=1&ob=5 Charlieskies]] has even written his own stuff. BreakingTheFourthWall, much? |
| 280 | ** Alex Day also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBnhLr0Erk admitted to writing his own slashfic]] about several female Youtubers, notably the [[https://www.youtube.com/user/fiveawesomegirls Five Awesome Girls]], under the pseudonym of [[http://ytslash4boys.tumblr.com/ Kyle Salmon]]. |
| 281 | * The majority of [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos Slenderman]] fanfiction is WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID related. The cast noticed almost immediately and commented that it was both creepy and flattering at the same time.[[note]]This was in-character, but given the nature of Slenderman stories and the fact that Everyman HYBRID in particular has a large amount of direct interaction with fans, it's a given that this is their actual opinion as well.[[/note]] |
| 282 | * There's serious shipping going on in the Creator/AchievementHunter fandom, especially Michael/Gavin slash in every setting and situation imaginable. |
| 283 | * LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys get slashed every once in a while. The preferred pairing seems to be [[LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} Emile]]/[[LetsPlay/ProtonJon Jon]]. |
| 284 | * There's quite a few Slash fics of Ian and Anthony of ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'', the two have even read some of them on their second channel. |
| 285 | * This happens a lot with the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}. They're ''mostly'' okay with it as long as it's not in the main Tumblr tags and they're [[IllPretendIDidntHearThat not made aware of some elements of it]]. Violating this rule and sending them explicit/disturbing fanfic (which in one case involved LetsPlay/LewisBrindley graphically abusing LetsPlay/HannahRutherford) is a guaranteed way to piss them off. |
| 286 | * Creator/DanAndPhil get this a lot, even having their names combined into a portmanteau of "phan", now fans who ship them and even those who think the ship is creepy call themselves "phans" and are part of the "phandom". |
| 287 | * [[WebVideo/{{Jacksepticeye}} Septi]][[WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} Plier]] videos, edits, fanfiction, and artwork have inundated both of their communities ever since the two started making more collab videos and hanging out together, though [=YamiMark=] is also still out there. And let's not even get started on all the [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Game Grumps]]/Markiplier ships. |
| 288 | * An interesting case when it comes to the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' cast and [[WebVideo/MinecraftMultiverse other related fandoms]]; as the characters in the roleplay [[TheDanza share their names with the content creators playing them]], there's occasionally confusion regarding whether certain fanfic is being written about the content creators themselves or the characters they play (and there's plenty of both). As the series goes on and CerebusSyndrome sets in, the authors usually clarify and actively differentiate whether their fics are about the characters or the creators behind the screen. Notably, a SlashFic shipping two members of the server (WebVideo/{{Dream}} and WebVideo/GeorgeNotFound) became so popular that it managed to induce a ColbertBump on the song it was named after ("Heat Waves" by Music/GlassAnimals), leading to it becoming the best-performing single of 2022 according to ''Billboard''. |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 292 | * Website/FanFictionDotNet used to have a ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' section, which was, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally]], full of RealPersonFic about celebrities brutalizing each other. The authors in that section always responsibly rated their works T or M for [[ChunkySalsaRule the obvious reason]]. The entire section was discontinued for using real people and describing brutal violence without an appropriate rating. |
| 293 | * Bryke is not unheard of in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fandom. |
| 294 | ** Also, a certain LJ community wrote a story that shipped the show's martial arts consultant with other members of the production crew. [[http://booter-freak.deviantart.com/art/SRS-BUSINESS-GAIS-78883230 He was not happy when he found out.]] |
| 295 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WestboroInEquestria'' has three actual members of the controversial [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church Westboro Baptist Church]] ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps Fred Phelps,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Phelps-Roper Shirley Phelps-Roper]] and [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/10/03/an-interview-with-jack-wu-the-westboro-baptist-church-member-running-for-kansas-state-school-board/ Jack Wu]]) being transported to Equestria. |
| 296 | * ''Fanfic/BeastBoyAndRavenJoinPETA'' features Ingrid Newkirk, Founder and President of PETA, as the BigBad. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | ---- |
| 299 | !! In-Universe Examples: |
| 300 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 301 | * An unusual example occurs in ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove W'', where Mahiro is horrified to learn that an alien {{Doujin}} circle published a {{Yaoi}} manga about him. His three companions all fight over it (Nyarko and Hasta want to read it, Cuuko wants to sell it on the open market), but Mahiro ends up buying and destroying it. Several times throughout the season the doujin's author (a massive Mahiro fangirl) pops up and attempts to meet him in person, not realizing that he isn't exactly happy to be the subject of gay porn from space. |
| 302 | * ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' spin-off series ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' features an In-Universe example with [[ShipperOnDeck Karen]], who secretly draws Kaguya/Shirogane doujinshi in her spare time (and is up to 11 volumes by the end of Shirogane's first term as StudentCouncilPresident). She ends up recruiting Ishigami to act as her editor and later offers to write one about him as thanks [[CallForward should he fall in love]]. This later reaches IShouldWriteABookAboutThis levels when Ishigami gives her the idea that she could write a series about two people trying to force the other into confessing. |
| 303 | [[/folder]] |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 306 | * ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'': Kamala, as part of her AudienceSurrogate characterization, is a devoted superhero fan and an avid writer and reader of superhero fanfic -- with the catch that these superheroes are all very much real and public figures in her world. This leads to a number of comedic incidents when she discusses these with their subjects (Wolverine in particular was not pleased to learn that a story about him got third place in popularity to "Cyclops and Emma Frost's romantic vacation in Paris"), and she's less than pleased when shipping fanfics start popping about ''her''. |
| 307 | [[/folder]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 310 | * ''Fanfic/ProjectGethinator'': It's mentioned that [[spoiler:Admiral Daro'Xen]], who is {{Yandere}} for Shepard in a big way, has written quite a few {{Self Insert|Fic}} Real-Person Fics involving herself and Shepard. According to those who know of them, they're quite sick and depraved, second only to [[NoodleIncident what Prazza did in]] ''[[NoodleIncident Fornax]]''[[NoodleIncident 's Forbidden Issue]], and illustrate quite nicely how completely obsessive and crazy [[spoiler:Xen]] is. |
| 311 | * ''Fanfic/SuperheroRPF'' is about people writing superhero fanfic in the Marvel Universe, where those super heroes actually exist, so basically writing real person fics. "OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs" is the most commonplace thing in its world. |
| 312 | * ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'': Two of the students develop a fondness for writing these about their teachers. The teachers (who are the main cast of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'') are a bit confused, but mostly very entertained. |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 316 | * In a rather hilarious scene in the KoreanDrama ''Series/YouAreBeautiful'', a member of a boyband reads horribly melodramatic RPF of himself slashed with his bandmates. And enjoys it. |
| 317 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Daisy Johnson, a.k.a. Quake, is told by one of the Koenig brothers that slash fic pairing her with Black Widow (a pairing known as "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Quack]]") is common. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Not that he has read any, of course]]. |
| 318 | * One episode of ''Series/ToastOfLondon'' has Toast write a successful novel. The novel is a ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''-style glorified fanfic about a romance between a contemporary real life journalist at ''The Guardian'' and UsefulNotes/HenryVIII, but despite the CrackPairing premise everyone loves it. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 322 | * In ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicKingdoms'', during a ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' sidequest, Priya mentions that she writes fanfic about Jesse from 4*Town despite having actually met him. |
| 323 | * The ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' event "Servant Summer Festival!" takes this trope to its logical extreme with the titular in-universe event (abbreviated to [=ServaFes=]), which is a doujinshi event for, by, and ''about'' Servants. Your player character helps write a few of their own to sell, and Gareth is introduced as all too happy to buy a slash doujin about her and Saber's brothers. [[https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Servant_Summer_Festival!_2018# The available doujins]] are even as varied as real-life doujinshi, ranging from HighSchoolAU to UsefulNotes/FurryFandom to OriginalGeneration characters. Remember: most of these characters are resurrected historical and mythological figures in real life, essentially meaning this entire scenario is RPF about the subjects running an RPF convention about themselves. |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': You can pick up an InGameNovel about the Raiden Shogun and Yae Guuji as a couple named "Pretty Please, Kitsune Guuji?" Although [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed the Yae Guuji is named Masako and not Miko]] here, it's clear who it's supposed to be about. Notably, this book is published by Yae Publishing House, which is headed by Yae Miko herself. Additionally, it was promoted heavily during the [[TemporaryOnlineContent Irodori Festival]], where you could pick up a tie-in drink from a cosplayer that worked for the company. [[ShipTease You have to wonder what Miko meant by that.]] It's noted in its description to be a SpiritualSuccessor to an {{Isekai}} novel about the protagonist being reincarnated as the Raiden Shogun, which is also an example you can find in-game. Note that as the Raiden Shogun is a PhysicalGod, these stories are not just tasteless but ''blasphemous''. Fortunately, when the Raiden Shogun finds out about the latter, she thinks it's ActuallyPrettyFunny. |
| 325 | [[/folder]] |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 328 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Psycholonials}}'', Abby is very involved in the Music/{{BTS}} shipping community and has written a number of SlashFics and even an entire manifesto about the Jimin/Jungkook pairing. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 332 | * An InUniverse example occurs in ''Webcomic/EarsForElves'': [[http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/630 Elon's diary]]. He writes a story about Luero being defeated so he can become TheHero, [[ShirtlessScene rip his shirt off]], save the day, and [[WishFulfillment have a make-out session with Tanna and Zalanna]]. |
| 333 | * Another InUniverse example, reflecting on the perils of the concept, appears in ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'', when [[http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20060905 Shelley has the misfortune to encounter some of her own fans.]] |
| 334 | * ''Webcomic/DoesNotPlayWellWithOthers'' has an in-universe example of people writing fanfics about the superhero Falchion, usually [[DatingCatwoman slashing him with his arch-nemesis Tekmage]], much to Falchion's disgust. One obsessive yaoi fangirl actually hired a hitman to [[MurderTheHypotenuse bump off Falchion's girlfriend]], convinced that her existence was the only thing preventing Falchion and Tekmage from realizing their true feelings for each other and being together in real life. [[spoiler:The thing is, they ''are'' together in real life, but nobody except for the reader and Tekmage "him"self know that SamusIsAGirl. Falchion ''thinks'' he's dating [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Tekmage's daughter]]]]. |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 338 | * Appears in-universe in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'' when the Titans find out that people online [[ShipToShipCombat debate]] on which of them should be with the other. Canonically, the only Titans to end up together were Beast Boy/Terra (temporarily) and Robin/Starfire. |
| 339 | * Similarly, the ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode [[Recap/BigHero6TheSeriesS1E14FanFriction "Fan Friction"]] sees Big Hero 6 discover that Karmi, one of Hiro's classmates, has been penning massively popular fanfiction about the team. Unlike the rest of the team, Hiro reacts [[OhCrapThereAreFanFicsOfUs quite negatively]] to this revelation (in part because Karmi [[LovesMyAlterEgo is crushing on "Captain Cutie"]] and [[SelfInsertFic has written herself into the story]] [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend as his girlfriend]]), even trying to devise a way to get Karmi to stop writing her stories. [[spoiler:He eases up by the end after saving Karmi from a plot cooked up by Momokase and Obake, humoring Karmi by reciting lines from her fics.]] |
| 340 | * The [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', "Fionna and Cake," turned out to be Ice King's fanfiction of the titular duo. Marceline later gets in on the act, co-opting her own gender flip, Marshall Lee, to tell another story. Lumpy Space Princess also makes a story about her genderflip and forces Ice King to read it, hoping he can make him real enough [[ScrewYourself to marry her]]. |
| 341 | * As the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Bad Tina" reveals, [[SmittenTeenageGirl Tina Belcher]] has apparently written sexually-explicit fanfiction on every fictional series known to man. As a result, she's run out of properties to write about and has taken to writing erotic "friend-fiction" about the people in her life instead. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
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