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Actually, I also feel bad that you're pulling stuff, but I am delighted to hear that you're going to rework it as original fiction. Censorship isn't what AFF is about - far from it - but I have this terrible little voice that follows me around whispering about consequences. It's curiously mute when I write original works, though.

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I wasn't actually posting that to deter you, or anyone. It was more or less to illustrate that fan fiction does sometimes reach places we might not expect, or think it would. The guys were good sports about it, really, and as I said, it was an innocuous little story.

I've seen a YouTube of two of the singers from Pentatonix, Scott and Mitch, reading aloud fan fiction about themselves. Both young men are openly gay, and went to school together. They're great friends, but not otherwise involved, unless you read the fan fictions, in which case they're definitely a couple. They were laughing and the fiction was actually rather sweet, but obviously, even minor celebrities are well aware of the potential of the Internet and fan interest. For the shiggles, the video.

That scares the ever-living daylights out of me, JD! Unless you're referring to Nicky Hilton and not her older and far dimmer sister, who needs cue cards to chew gum.

There are a few things that would leave me equally squicked be it a celebrity or a fictional character, and that's just to be expected, I think. We all have our personal likes and dislikes, after all. But I will admit that my threshold is lower when I know that the subject of the story is an actual person, with actual family and friends out there who might read something less than wholesome.

::raises hand:: I would be that mod, and I'm not actually shy about admitting it. However, that doesn't mean I can't be impartial when sweeping that archive. I just occasionally feel the need for a long, hot shower and a stiff drink afterward. In truth, I'm actually interested in hearing why people choose to write this particular form of fan fiction. It's always useful to see other people's points of view, and I would really appreciate seeing this from a new perspective. So I do hope some writers of celebrity fiction will chime in.

In the strictest sense, all fan fiction is AU because it steps outside the canon universe envisioned by the creators. Having said that, I take the personal opinion that by staying within the general canon, in terms of keeping canon characters in character, and using the conventions and settings of the original creators of the 'verse, that fan fiction isn't AU. We're playing in the same sandbox, so to speak. Celebrity fiction, or any real-person fiction, can be held to that looser standard, I think. It's taking the people we purport to admire, and placing them, still as themselves, in a setting that is totally fictitious, but not outside the realm of possibility for that celebrity. However, unless we take a celebrity and put them someplace wildly outside the realm of possibility - Jennifer Lawrence is piloting a mining ship in the asteroid belt - it really isn't AU, no matter how out of character it might seem for Mira Sorvino to be elected President some day, because really, it could happen. I'd hope she were wiser than to want the job, but it's not impossible.

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I'm posting this here so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle of things: I'm not a coder, and I don't know if this can be done, but it's certainly worth thinking about, since Pinterest is becoming so widespread. The final word will have to come from our tech admin and coder, though, since they're the ones who have to actually implement these things.

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