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[roxy]

Hi! I'm trying to work my way through this CW rps thing that I blame on you guys--it's all your faults! I'm an innocent here.

Hope it works. I'm not all that good at the RPSing, even though it is fun. It's just, there's so little to hang it on, and for some reason, I reeeeelly hate watching interviews, they make me squirm. I did like that one a few years back with the whole SV cast. It was funny, informative and scripted to the most part. More like unreal life, the way I like it.

So, those of you who've written RPS seriously, how do you research for it? How do you decide what your characters are like? I'm deeply into reading the J2, in case you haven't noticed my near incessant mentioning of it, and some of them are quiet lovely, and some of them are Norman and Alfonso, but for the purposes of the story, the writer called them Jensen and Jared. Also...stop fucking Thomas up. I swear to God, don't make me come over there.


Anyhoo--being here doesn't mean I've fixed my SpN story so much as given up on it. What comes is what comes. I'm not going to sweat it. Not like I'm being tested on it, after all.

*cries in the coat closet*

Comments

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

I don't write (RPS or otherwise) but I want to throw my two cents in about the subject. If you're story is mostly J2 please don't have Tom be mean/evil or dumb. Almost every J2-centric fic that I've read casts him either as a villain or as a total lunk head. And I don't think either one is correct or fair. And I would think the same thing even if I wasn't a total Tom girl.

*g*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

GIRL! Girl! Who you talking to!!! OMG, would I make Tom an evil guy? A stupid guy? It drives me nuts when I start reading a fic and Thomas is an evil drug dealing sadistic abusive bastard who hurts widdle Jared or whatever--where in the world do they come up with that characterization????? Me, I'm thinking if you want an evil asshole in your fic, make him up! Stop abusing my Thomas!

It hurts my head.

forgot to add: this is how it should be done! (http://tasabian.livejournal.com/51263.html)

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

GIRL! Girl! Who you talking to!!! OMG, would I make Tom an evil guy? A stupid guy?

I know, I know. But I just had to make sure. And maybe it will influence what someone else decides to do.

I think it's just on my mind because I was reading a J2 fic that just FABULOUS yesterday but then I got to a part with Tom and he was basically written as "dumb but pretty". And it killed the rest of the fic for me.

I guess I should just be glad he wasn't abusive to anyone in it.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I got to a part with Tom and he was basically written as "dumb but pretty". And it killed the rest of the fic for me.

Right? I guess that's what I was wondering when I asked about research for RPS--all you have to do is look at an interview or two and see that Thomas is far from stupid--in the early years he was painfully earnest about his craft. Just looking at his jailbait pics from back in the day might make you think he was dumb and pretty, though. I guess pretty guys have to go through the same shit pretty girls do. :)

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

*smishes you so much*

And just about all the people that write Tom as mean/dumb are folks that have never had anything to do with the SV fandom as near as I can tell. So it must be them just picking a guy on a CW show at random and sticking them in the part.

You should hatch a bunny that's like a Good Will Hunting AU. Everyone thinks Tom is all dumb but he's secretly really smart. I can see Michael as Chuckie.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oooooo! I like that--I really do like that! Hmmmm... :)

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

*leaves carrots in a trail to you for the bunny*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*NODS*

Yeah--those SpN folks really do wild and not nice things to the Boys. Michael is nuts--but he's not insane! :)