petronia

keieru de retour online notes (well, notes on her real blog) that lotrips has de facto exploded. And I blinked and went, "Huh. She's right, it has," because people keep reccing stuff that's been written, like, 36 hours previous. Rampant productivity of the type that depresses me, as I'm doomed to plod along at my own stolid pace no matter how enthusiastic I may feel. ^^;

Not to say that UML and its ilk have eaten my brain, but I think I need a boundary condition test suite for RPS. I used to have one for slash in general, comprised of ten or so questions of the "Does [foo] count as slash?" format, which I'd go around asking people. (Values of foo: OC/OC, f/f, fic written for a canon m/m pairing, yaoi dj, original june, m/f where one/both participants are canonically gay, RP/RP, etc. The typical answer to some of these changed as time passed, which is of course the interesting part.) The purpose was to obtain a definition by statistical consensus, and I would've done it too, if it weren't so obviously work designated for someone who's made it her proper field of study. *g* Anyone in need of a research project?

Anyhow I was thinking about this because I found a half-hour movie on my David Bowie disc, in the continuing tale of my DVD!wank (what is it that Golitzinsky says? "Shake once, that's hygiene. Shake twice - now you're just playing with it"), which was basically one of the PMVs extended to include storyline. And while watching it I thought in my boredom and depravity, "Would it count as RPS if I slashed this?"

...Which question went unanswered in and of itself, because Bowie was one of the people who invented popmusik meta, and he's three steps ahead of you. But still. If I wrote fic about one of Gackt's PMV scenarios, in which he's obviously not "himself" -

supacat's done this - am I writing AU RPS or am I writing plain old slash for a 5-minute-long film? Does it depend on what names I use? My intent when I sit down at the keyboard? ...And it's more complicated than the slash test suite, because more telling than the question of Whether These Are Real People is the question, does this bother (or at least affect) you the same way as RPS normally would. One can't really dispute that Keats/Shelley is RPS, but does it honestly squick anyone to the same extent as (say) Damon/Affleck could? What if I wrote fic for The Osbournes? Popstars? What if I wrote fic in which nothing happened but Brian Molko meeting Tori Amos at a party?

Urr. Talk to me, people. XD