Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Long time no see literally means nagai jikan miru na.
It's official. I read RPS fics.

Goddamnit, you guys. It was never supposed to come to this. I just browsed through an archive out of curiosity and boredom rather than genuine interest--until I found out that some of them were actually good. As in, "I wish I could write fic like this" good.

And believe me, I had my doubts about RP fic. I had always thought that fanfiction as a medium couldn't do justice in portraying actual human beings. People are far more complex than television show or novel characters; you can't pin people down through their actions alone, especially if you don't really know them.

But RP fanfiction isn't about summing up the essence of a person in 2,000 words. It's about taking these people, who us fans will never know but who we're fascinated with nonetheless, and trying to understand them a little better, as ridiculous and futile as that endeavor might be. The best of fics don't reduce the boys to the personalities or the "characters" they display in public, but explore the exact things that make them human, both the good and the bad, the things that are obvious in the boys and the things that are much harder to accept; and all without the writing becoming too angsty or personal (which was the main thing that drove me away from J-Rock fics: most of the well-written ones made me far too uncomfortable).

Though I have my doubts as to how realistic these writers' portrayals are, such things matter far less than I initially expected. Because the simple truth is: some of what these writers come up with is just too damn interesting to ignore. (And I guess "interesting and well-written" trumps a lot of things in my book.)

Worse yet, all this makes me want to write RP fic myself. I know; this fandom has officially doomed me.




God. I'm so tl;dr as of late. Screw words, here's a video (and the reason why there's so many freaking DBSK fics in the first place):

A continuation of the last post; apparently, the making of Dangerous Love turns out being almost as funny as the drama itself. Consists of Jaejoong and Yunho bursting into awkward laughter every thirty seconds, and saying some... really odd things. Like Yunho's sudden outburst of, "I'M DOING THIS TO A MAN!"

Priceless, these boys. <3 [/BL spam]
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