mrstarhead, it’s not, just some people think because they’re feminists that everything they do is a feminist act. It’s kind of a meme that’s going round in fandom and has been for yours, but it’s hotly debated.

My only agenda is that I want to interview some bandom people for a project I’m working on with a friend. Who’s also not a FGW/A. And the project isn’t an article. In fact, it would be physically impossible to quote someone for this project without their consent.

kate, flattery gets you nowhere. except w/gaydrawer, apparently. and i think the main audience for anymore articles on this subject would be fandom, rather than anybody else, as they seem not to care that much. oh well, it’s more unique visitors isn’t it?

That’s all for now.

It’s amusing to say the *very* least.
the thing is, most of us are aware of the fact that the bands know this stuff exists (some of them actively read it, [HELLO TOMRAD. also, PETE. We KNOW YOU READ THIS SHIT] even if only for giggles). What I think the person who posted it is missing, is that we aren’t actually writing about the rockstars we name.
We don’t know them personally, so we really can’t.

These are completely fictional characters with insecurities and personalities all their own. We borrow their names, faces, occupations (sometimes), and occasionally single out a personality quirk or acutal occurance to play up, elaborate, r fabricate. Not the same thing as writing the *real* Gerard Way fantasizing about his rhythm section…

Well, that goes for the majority of us anyway.

We don’t do this for them anyway. We do it for ourselves, for each other’s amusement. I could care less if Pete wetnz is googling his name and one of my stories pops up. That’s his own damn fault for not listening to Mikey Way.

I don’t feel the need to get upset whether or not people know about this hobby or not; then again, I go by an alias. And if I ever publish something serious, I’ll probably go by an alias on that as well. Fun? Practice for my future career writing formulaic romance novels? Why not?

I do think whoever it was up there made a good point though… there’s a lot worse shit actually published in original fiction. Like everything else, the quality varies. *shrugs* It’s not everyone’s Venti Chai Latte.

And I noticed the kid gloves right away. This is probably the most sympathetic piece of “outside” attention fandom has gotten, at least in my memory. I don’t know why people are getting offended, you practically endorsed us. In a roundabout, dignity-preserving, I-still-think-they’re-fucking-weird way, of course.

I could probably soothe your sociological itchings, if you like. Email me at pete.wentz.at.my.baby@gmail. <— yes that’s real

Secondly, a lot of people have weird hobbies. There are few hobbies that aren’t weird, in fact. Sit slumped in the dark, in front of a box for an hour or more to watch people you don’t know compete for a recording contract? Kinda weird. Risk your life by climbing up big rocks? Kinda weird. Knitting? Kinda weird.

My hobby is cheaper, more creatively stimulating and (IMO) more fun than any of those listed above. I get to write fiction about something that I love and have people enjoy that fiction. Sometimes I win awards, too. (What, my winning story at the bandom awards wasn’t worth mockery? Too bad.)

Wentz and Those Dudes have known about the fanfic for ages. And even if he reads it here it’s not like he knows who wrote it/will care. I think posting the LJ names of the authors here on Idolator would have been much more wank than leaving them in uncredited anonymity.