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• RPF Roundtable Part 2: Tinhatting and Industry-Sanctioned RPF (2:53:29)↑
  Consulting Fans Emma Grant, Caroline, Elise Vist, and Porcupinegirl discuss the practice of tinhatting their RPF ships, fan service and RPS (real person slash/shipping) as an industry practice, and the complications of transnational, cross-cultural RPF shipping.

• • • • Elise on twitter
      • PG on ao3
      • PG’s Supernatural podcast, Season 14
      • Fan service from pro hockey RPF
        • Gallys Bromance
        • This Avalanche tweet, quoting this deleted tweet
      • Slash kpop fan service: OnlyOneOf official libidO music video and the “Guilty Pleasure” version 
      • Chicago Tribute article on (straight) NHL RPF
      • Transformative Works article on the troubles of RPF by Milena Popova, an RPFer, “When the RP gets in the way of the F,” especially this conclusion:
        • “This indicates that while RPF may “shape and alter the star” (Busse 2006b), there are limits to such shaping and altering, imposed by the process of side-by-side reading integral to meaning making within fan fiction. Combined with the mass exodus from the fandom of those fans who saw continued involvement with Kane as a fan object as reproducing rape culture, this unfillable gap indicates that at a point of crisis, the public and official private personas of the star are collapsed with the glimpses of the real private person, imposing meanings that overwhelm any collectively constructed RPF character.”
        • Hockey RPF and the 4th wall Fanlore entry
      • Caroline’s recs
        • Teen Vogue article, “On RPF and Why People Love to Write Stories About Public Figures” by Stitch
        • NPR podcast and article concerning Xiao Zhan and 227, “Dream Boy And The Poison Fans”
        • Kadian explainers: Fluentu, kadian tumblr ask with examples
      • PG’s recs
        • Untamed Sherlockians Guide to BJYX
        • Tumblrs that post a lot about bjyx and/or the Chinese entertainment industry and the political and historical context surrounding it:
          • Potteresque-ire
          • Rainbowsky (masterpost link)
          • Peekbackstage (tags/masterpost)
      • Elise’s rec
        • KDC on twitter

This segment was first released on September 1, 2021 in Episode 120: WAP (Sexpisode 9)! 

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