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   Real person fiction or real people fiction (RPF) is a genre of writing similar   
   to fan fiction, but featuring celebrities or other real people. In the past,   
   terms such as actorfic were used to distinguish such stories from those based   
   on fictional    
   characters from movies or television series.   
      
   Before the term "real person fiction" (or "real people fiction"[1]) came into   
   common usage, fans came up with a variety of terms, which are still used for   
   specific genres or cultural practices in the RPF community; for example,   
   musicfic, popslash, or    
   actorfic. The genre includes stories about actors, athletes, comedians,   
   historical figures, musicians, newsworthy people, and reality show contestants   
   among others, as well as fiction about the fans themselves.   
      
      
   Contents   
   1	Description   
   2	History   
   3	Controversy   
   3.1	Morality and legality   
   3.2	Real person slash   
   3.3	Reaction   
   4	References   
   5	External links   
   Description   
   In general, the authors seem to adopt the public personas of the celebrities   
   in question as their own characters, building a fictional universe based on   
   the supposed real-life histories of their idols. Information from interviews,   
   documentaries, music    
   videos, and other publicity sources are assimilated into the stories. It is   
   also very popular to write fiction about celebrity couples. Communities of   
   writers build collective archetypes based on the celebrities' public personas.   
   Communities also develop    
   their own ethics on what sort of stories are acceptable – some are   
   uncomfortable with slash fiction, or with mention of the celebrity's real-life   
   families, or with stories involving suicide, murder, or rape. Like most fan   
   fiction, the RPF genre    
   includes stories of every kind, from innocuous to sadistic to pornographic.   
   Like many fan fiction writers whose subject matter is commercially prepared   
   entertainment, particularly before the advent of the Internet, a number of RPF   
   authors report that    
   they began writing on their own, without any awareness of a larger fan fiction   
   community, and were surprised to learn that they were not alone.[citation   
   needed] Many report having been completely unaware of media fandom's taboo   
   towards RPF; that is, many    
   fans believe it is acceptable to write about the characters, but not about the   
   actors who portray them.   
      
   Depictions of actors in RPF stories are often heavily influenced by characters   
   the actors portray. For example, in RPF based around The Lord of the Rings,   
   Viggo Mortensen is frequently shown as taking an Aragorn-like leadership role,   
   Billy Boyd and    
   Dominic Monaghan are lighthearted Hobbit-like pranksters, and Elijah Wood is   
   more physically fragile and emotionally vulnerable than his colleagues.   
      
   A significant minority of such stories take the form of "Mary Sue   
   fanfiction",[2] which feature a "Mary Sue" character, usually but not always   
   female, who is described in extremely idealistic terms and is described as a   
   wish-fulfillment image of the    
   author. A Mary Sue may become romantically involved with a band member or   
   actor, join a film cast, prove to have superior acting or singing ability,   
   and/or possess incredible beauty.   
      
   Politician fic is sometimes used as a form of satire, or to highlight the   
   underlying biases or attitudes of the politician being portrayed, although   
   more recently there has been an increase in more 'ordinary' fanfiction about   
   British politicians in    
   particular, with a notable emphasis on slash.[citation needed]   
      
   History   
   The earliest known RPF was written by Shakespeare as Shakespearean history,   
   published in his First folio in 1623. Following that, the Brontë children   
   wrote RPF from 1826 to approximately 1844. Based on the children's roleplaying   
   game about the    
   Napoleonic Wars, the series featured the Duke of Wellington and his two   
   (actual) sons Charles and Arthur, and their nemesis Alexander Percy, partly   
   based on Napoleon. Over the years, Arthur evolved into an amazingly   
   charismatic and powerful figure, the    
   Duke of Zamorna. Percy became a tragic villain, partly inspired by John   
   Milton's version of Satan from Paradise Lost. These stories were not published   
   until well over a hundred years later, but the children used them to polish   
   their writing skills and    
   eventually all became professional authors.[3]   
      
   During the 1940s, the Whitman Publishing Company released authorized editions   
   of real-person fiction, possibly as a boost to the careers of the Hollywood   
   stars of that era. Described as "The Newest, Up-To-The-Minute Mystery and   
   Adventure Stories for Boys    
   and Girls, featuring your favorite characters", a variety of famous actors and   
   actresses were spotlighted, including Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, John Payne,   
   Ann Sheridan, Jane Withers, Bonita Granville, Gene Autry, Deanna Durbin and   
   Ann Rutherford. The    
   hardcover publications had colorful dustjackets with a photo of the celebrity   
   on the front, and several illustrations of the actor or actress inside the   
   volume. Liberties were taken with the identities of the celebrities; for   
   example, in the story "   
   Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak", the "Ginger Rogers"   
   character is not an actress at all, but is instead a humble telephone operator   
   who becomes involved in a mystery.   
      
   The original edition of the "Three Investigators" children's crime series was   
   billed as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators", with Hitchcock as   
   mentor to the eponymous heroes.   
      
   Jean Lorrah's "Visit to a Weird Planet",[4] published in Spockanalia 3 (1968),   
   was a lighthearted two-parter about what would happen if a transporter   
   malfunction caused the Star Trek characters to be swapped with the   
   20th-century actors who played them.    
   Regina Marvinny, editor of Tricorder Readings, encouraged fans in the early   
   1970s to write "what-if" stories about meeting Leonard Nimoy. However, some of   
   the earliest known published cases of RPF come from 1977, when fanzines of the   
   band Led Zeppelin    
   began to print some of the fan fiction being written. Due to the fact that   
   these stories involved real Zeppelin band members, most notably Jimmy Page and   
   Robert Plant, names were changed to pseudonyms such as "Tris" and "Alex".   
      
      
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