Fantasy/Reality - where do you draw the line on the internet?

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You're saying you don't want any of it?

Yeah, I can understand that. I'm just curious as to why one makes me hot, and the other makes me feel creepy and cold, what does that say about my boundaries?

(Sorry, I've just left Jules and Nicky fucking in a bathroom somewhere...)

I'm glad this isn't about what I thought it was about.

What did you think it was about, Sean? Now I'm totally intrigued as to what could possibly be more offensive...

Good lord.

I had no idea that such things were going on. Celebrity cultcha has taken a very dark turn at livejournal. The internet is starting to scare me.

So it's not just me? That is a step scarier than fan fiction. It's like... celebrity role playing, but with this creepy veil of anonymity drawn over it.

The thing about fanfic is that it's so much more author-centered, and the fanfic writer still has an attachment to his or her own life as the author.

This celebrity impersonation stuff is much more disturbing. It's hard for me to imagine that these folks are doing this as a creative endeavor; it's got to me more about the desire for fame and envy and loss of identity into the character being portrayed. Maybe I'm just being stupid, but it seems like anyone who does that stuff has to be mentally unhinged in a very specific why-can't-I-be-you sort of way.

Nail on the head, J. Thanks.

Even in fanficts that are written first person in the role of the popstar (like that delicate cutters Julian slash I just read) it's still very much the author coming to grips with an aspect of their own personality that they can't face otherwise.

Celebrity impersonation on livejournal ... I dunno. Why is it scarier on the internet than, say, drag queens pretending to be Liza Minelli down the local Cabaret?

Are you a music journalist, kate?

the drag queens might get paid.

but. drag queens are harder to ignore.

I'm an asshole

Nah, I'm a fan fiction writer. ;-) I just quit my music journo job.

I mean, it would be one thing if it were funny, celebrity satire, and I've heard about those on livejournal, but that's just weird.

HAW HAW! Almost as good as that "Guy in the Strokes accused of trying to look like that guy in the Strokes" headline in the Onion