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That looks great! I wish my 00 wagon had a different kind of roof rack -- you've given me something to think about.
Stick with the black !
|looks good...very clean and evrything goes good together
Here's the pics of the crossbars. I only had one on the car the other was in the trunk. Cutting down this bar design is easy. You can only make a cut from one side because the other side is notched. Just take out the two screws, take off the cut side, put the other pieces on one side, slide the foot in, and make a measurement. I actually made a mark on the outside of the foot on the bar, measured the depth of the bar in the foot, then made a cut measurement to the outside of the foot, and added the foot depth measurement from earlier- but everybody knows how to do that which is why I didn't take any pics.
Here's the underside of the crossbar foot showing the two screws.
|looks good alex! and i agree with hudson and 2000...i think the black looks good. nice job guy!
Wow... I can't believe anyone replied to this.. there's so few wagoneers out there. I haven't had a chance to cut up the cross bars yet, but I will take some time to do that tomorrow. I'm also planning on some rock guards/mudflaps whatever ya wanna call them sometime soon. The fronts are easiest, and the backs are going to need some supports built from what I can see. If anyone knows if Ford supplies mounting hardware with their Focus rock guard kits- please let me know. I'm thinking there must be something that bolts up to the front pinch weld & inner fender plastic fastener hole under the fender. At least that's what I've been planning on building. There's simply not enough lip on the inside of the fender for a self tapping screw.
Thanks for the replies
Personally I'd say keep the black, but I'm not a big chrome fan and I've had the fashion police after me more than once
Your mod looks good!
looks good...a lot less ubtle and less noticeable than the old mammoth rack...and if your ever headed up I-40 east bust an exit in Hickman Co.
(P.S. keep the black it goes good with the rest of the car and window trim IMO)
Replacing the Ugly wagon Roof Rack
For any Wagoneers out there who want to get rid of that unsightly noisemaker that Ford put on the roof, check A-1 Autoracks (accessories) scroll down and you'll find permanent mount roof rack end tracks for $35 that will accept expensive heavy duty Thule or Yakima pedestals. I think fitting a different design factory rack like I did is harder, and maybe doesn't look as good. The ends on the tracks don't exactly fit perfectly flush- even after I tried my best to conform the track to the roof. If anyone has any ideas about how to trim up the edges- I'd appreciate the ideas The issue is visible in the close up pic of the new rack.
Ok, since the day I picked my car up, I hated the factory roof rack. Not only does the 05+ model NOT come with cross bars, but the darn thing makes noise in cross winds. I finally went down to the Ford only junkyard here in town and picked up a Windstar rack because I'd seen the same tracks as the Focus uses on Windstars, so I figured it might come close to being the same- wrong! Only one hole per rack lined up- and I was thankful for that. I had to drill the new racks, and find new screws because the head design of the screws on my old rack wouldn't allow the cross bars to be moved on the new rack. I had to figure out how to seal the darn thing up too unless I wanted water to get in through the roof rack fasteners. Ford uses a foam rubber sealant.
I removed the old rack, eyeballed the new racks, and then waxed the edge crud from the old rack off the roof. To line up the holes on the new rack with the fasteners in the roof I used masking tape and marked the center of the holes I needed to drill. Then I transferred the masking tape to the new rack, lined up the one hole that worked, and drilled the other holes. I discovered that the head of the screw would fit nearly flush if I cut a 5/16 hole.
To prepare the new roof rack tracks, I had to wet sand, paint, bow & twist to fit the roof, and apply grease to the old plastic parts after drilling the holes. For those who want to use old junkyard parts on new cars and don't like grey plastic: a tiny dab of grease rubbed in with a rag makes most greyed plastic look new again. I used rubber washers to go around the factory roof fasteners, rubber washers between the fastener and the new rack around the screw, and grommets in the old screw holes I didn't use. I figured water was going to get under the rack anyway, so why not let it breathe in the middle.
Here's the pics, and later tonight I'll be cutting down the cross bars to fit the new roof size, and I'll take pics of that process as well as the finished product if anyone is interested.
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New Rack close-up
I have half a mind to pull these back off, wet sand more, then use Tru-Chrome and chrome trim tape to make them chrome except the plastic ends, but I'll have to check the fashion police first. I seem to have no idea what looks cool..
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The 2011 MCLLM: A Sophomore's Successby Amy Stamon
"Mom, they made a mistake. I'm not supposed to be here. They didn't even read my paper…they were just looking to fill up all of the slots!" Flustered, I threw my binder down onto the hotel bed and nervously ran my hands through my hair. I had just attended my first session of presentations at the 2011 Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media hosted by Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, and had discovered that I was the youngest presenter by at least two years.
"Amy, they did not make a mistake. They read your paper and they thought it was good!" Always a supportive mother. But this time, I knew she was wrong. The other panelists were shocked when I told them that I would be presenting the next day and that I was only a sophomore in my undergraduate studies. I thought this was normal, but I quickly learned that it was not. The first presentations I heard were delivered by Ph.D students and current professors, and I had never even heard of the majority of the works that they were analyzing. I was horrified and seriously considered forgoing the entire experience, driving back to Chicago, and spending the remainder of the weekend shopping and getting lost in the city. But I knew I had prepared for too long and paid too much money to simply slip out of the conference.
I had submitted this paper mostly on a whim, taking advantage of a free, online submission to a conference that boasted a theme very similar to a paper I had written for Dr. Davis's English 200 course. I never thought anything would come of it, considering that I had no experience presenting at an academic conference, but there I was, in Reavis Hall of Northern Illinois University, less than 24 hours away from presenting a paper to a group of "true academics" who enjoyed discussing the pedagogy of teaching writing to undergraduates. I sunk down in my seat in the back of the room, sure that they could sense my youth and inexperience.
The next day, after much coaxing from my mother and a final reminder that I would most likely never see these people again, I stood at the front of the room and read my paper with as much conviction as I could muster. I have little to no recollection of what I said, but I do remember my mom sitting in the back of the classroom and I knew that, if nothing else, she was proud of me and impressed with my work. After the other three panelists had presented, we sat in the front of the room to field questions. I couldn't decide which was more terrifying – to be asked a question that I could not answer, or to not be asked any questions at all. Luckily, neither of these two scenarios happened. People were truly interested in my topic – the exploration of pain, trauma, and violence in the works of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Voluspa Jarpa – and asked engaging, thoughtful questions that I could answer.
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This Sunday (June 27) Paul McCartney takes to the stage to headline Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park and YouTube will be hosting a stream from the event at the BornHIVFree channel.
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Born HIV Free is urging people pledge their support to The Global Fund's efforts to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015 by adding their names to the organization's Support Wall. At present, 45% of HIV-Positive pregnant women have access to the drugs they need to block transfer of the virus to their babies, with Global Fund-supported programmes reaching 790,000 to date… 340,000 in 2009 alone. The goal is clear and your voice could make the difference.
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"Gragnani followed up his regular season performance with a team-leading seven points (1+6) in Buffalo's seven-game loss to Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. Gragnani's six assists were a Sabres rookie record for assists by a defenseman in one playoff series, and he also tied Pierre Turgeon (1988) for rookie points in one series. Despite playing in just seven playoff games, Gragnani's seven points led all rookie defensemen in the postseason, and he finished fourth in rookie playoff scoring."
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When I was growing up, every kid I knew chewed bubble gum. We were either trading Topps baseball cards and chomping on the thin slice of gum that came in every package, or peeling the paper off a chunk of Bazooka just before heading out to second base.
Now, according to the New York Times, bubble gum has fallen on hard times. But, the gum brand of Bazooka Joe and his sidekick Mort, is planning a comeback.
Kids aren't chewing as much gum as they used to. A marketing company told the Bazooka folks that only 7 per cent of children aged 6 to 12 were aware of Joe and Mort, the cartoon characters who starred in the sometimes corny comic inserts that hugged the bright pink squares of gum inside the outer package.
Maybe Bazooka Joe, who always wears a ball cap and eye-patch and his pal Mort — always with his turtleneck up over his mouth — could use a makeover aimed at elevating image awareness with this current generation of gum poppers.
Instead, Joe and Mort are all but disappearing into the background in the brand revamp. Never fear, though. They'll make occasional appearances on the new inserts, but not in comic strip mode. They'll simply be illustrations. Instead of comics, chewers will get brain teasers and activities and codes which — you guessed it — can be entered at the brand's website to see videos and games.
Bazooka, the chew choice of boomers, was introduced in 1947. How can any of us forget the deep pink, white, and blue color scheme and geometric design? The new, re-imagined Bazooka will have new colors and design—fuchsia and yellow, with the splattered-paint look of graffiti.
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posted at 1:40 pm on November 29, 2012 by Guy Benson
This National Journal story popped up in the headlines earlier, but I think it merits a slightly closer look. The rub:
Senate Democrats say they have made their opening bid on the revenue side by pushing House Republicans to approve a Senate-passed bill to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class while raising tax rates on the wealthy. Now, Democrats want Republicans to offer up the spending cuts they want to see – a move the GOP doesn't seem inclined to make right now … For their part, Republicans argue that they have passed a budget that included significant entitlement reforms and now it's up to the president to say what cuts he will support.
I'll admit it. Sometimes I find myself taken by a perverse admiration for Democrats' sheer cajones. Here's how I describe their magnanimous "negotiating" posture over at Townhall:
Democrats' "opening bid" is an insistence that Republicans agree to (job-killing,drop-in-the-deficit-bucket) tax increases on the rich. This offer involves precisely zero compromise on their part, of course. Their next bold move is to say, "ok, guys, now that we've repeated ourselves for the umpteenth time on stickin' it to the rich for jollies, it's time for you to outline specific entitlement cuts that we can use to paint you as heartless bastards." … Perhaps this is what Dick Durbin meant when he said entitlement reform should be "on the table." It'll only be on the table in the sense that Democrats will continue to commit to jack squat, using the safety of their do-nothing crouch to attack the only meaningful ideas being offered by either side. In short: You give us everything we want, then you do the politically-risky heavy lifting on everything else, which we'll probably just use to batter you over the head anyway. Compromise!
Yes, if only these damned Republicans would actually commit to controversial but necessary entitlement reform plans on paper, then we might finally get somewhere. What a bunch of cowards, right?
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Peppi Marchello, lead singer and songwriter of Long Island Music Hall of Fame band The Good Rats, known for clever rock anthems including "Tasty" and "New York Survivor," died Wednesday night of cardiac arrest. He was 68.
Marchello was recovering from heart surgery last month, but had been feeling ill at his Nissequogue home in recent days, said his brother and Good Rats' co-founder Mickey Marchello.
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"He was one of the greatest songwriters and he was the greatest brother," Marchello said. "Beyond that, what else is there to say?"
The legions of Good Rats admirers around the world would agree, having seen the band play everywhere from Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum and London's Hammersmith Odeon to nearly every little club and park on Long Island. Mickey Marchello said his brother was looking forward to playing Hoyt Farm in Commack on Sunday.
Rolling Stone magazine called The Good Rats, which the Marchello brothers formed in 1964 after seeing The Beatles, "the world's most famous unknown band." But to Long Islanders, they were far from unknown, releasing their eponymous debut on Warner Bros. Records in 1969, and following it up in 1974 with "Tasty," which includes the title track that has long been a staple on rock radio.
However, it was The Good Rats' live shows that became legendary, landing them in the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2008. As fans will attest, there are quite a few Long Island women who have tattoos due to the band's live version of "Yellow Flower."
"Guys would always come up to us and say, 'I met my wife because of you,' " Mickey Marchello recalled Thursday. "And Peppi would always ask, 'Is that a good or a bad thing?' "
"Peppi onstage was magic," said Michael "Eppy" Epstein, who would book The Good Rats regularly at his legendary Roslyn club My Father's Place for years. "He took control of an audience and had them eating out of his hands."
Peppi Marchello often talked of the "Curse of the Rat," to explain how so many of the bands The Good Rats performed with would gain worldwide attention while they did not. "The Cars, Blondie, Cheap Trick, even David Copperfield, opened for us," Mickey Marchello said. "We told Bon Jovi that they would make it big after they opened for us because of the 'Curse of the Rat.' "
But it was a good-natured curse. Things always seemed to work out for the best. Mickey Marchello said his brother had been a promising baseball player who was scouted by the New York Yankees when he was a teenager, but a serious bout with rheumatic fever halted his career before it began. Instead, he took up music and paid tribute to his love of baseball by carrying a bat onstage and using it as a trademark of his performance.
John Sullivan of Garden City-based Americana band Throwback Busking said he was always impressed by Marchello.
"They were a band that made me work harder onstage in connecting with your local base of fans," he said. "Whether they were at Malibu or Nassau Coliseum, The Good Rats had the same work ethic."
Marchello is survived by his wife, Cathy; children Gene, Stefan, Kristin and Spencer; his mother, Yolanda; a sister Vivian; a brother Mickey; and eight grandchildren.
Visitation will be Saturday and Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at St. James Funeral Home, 829 Middle Country Rd., Rte. 25, in St. James. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at Sts. Philip and James Church, 1 Carrow Pl., in St. James. The family said the visitation and the funeral are open to the public.
"My father was a blue-collar rocker," said Marchello's son Stefan. "His funeral will be open to his fans -- that's exactly what he would have wanted."


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Hi! I am new to the Duckhuntingchat.com forum. It looks like there are a lot of good folks on this forum. Me and a couple of buddiesusually plan a trip each year to hunt somewhere and we've never hunted in the Northeast. I'm from Georgia, love duck hunting, upland hunting, fly fishing, you name it. I have a golden retirever, Jackson, that is on his 2nd hunting season and doing pretty well. I'm looking to duck hunt in vermont or around that area. My wife and I just had our first baby girl so funds are a little tight and I can't really afford the big-time super fancy hunting lodge stuff. Me and 2 other guys are just looking for any advice you all may have on the best way we should go about getting in the woods/water with a descent/reasonable duck guide one day and if it is easily possible to hunt grouse and trout fish on public land up there after we duck hunt.. The trick part is we all can only get off work around the first week of November. Any suggestions? Is vermont the right place for that time of year?
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I am looking for subjects, ideas and resources for military English. I have 20 hours to fill one to one for 6 weeks at least (preintermediate).
I am a new teacher and this seems a bit daunting at the moment!
My student is due to arrive next week (he is a Colonel from Libya).
Looking at you tube, etc. Not finding much suitable for pre-intermediate. Haven't found much on internet, keep getting directed to the British Council Peacekeeping resources which have been removed.
I have the Campaign English book, but will need to supplement this. Sometimes I will supplement it with civilian stuff from general text books.
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I'm just sayin' hello, letting you cool cats know I'm here and looking to learn as much as I can about this particular aspect of Star Wars costuming. I've been a long time fan of Star Wars, always thought Boba Fett was one of the cooler characters from the Star Wars saga and always thought the Mandelorian armor was rather unique and interesting despite what venom a few sour souls have spit my way. I've always loved the look of this particular armor/costume and it's time I had some fun with like minded fans!
The other reason I've decided to join is that, well...it's very boring in these parts, my life needs some excitement and I'm looking to do something a bit different. I'm a little short to be a Stormtrooper and the 501st is kinda strict on what is and is not acceptable in terms of what Star Wars costues member can do, so here I be. I have some ideas on what my particular costume would be like, nothing radical and certainly identifiable as a Mandelorian but I am curious to know if it has to be regulated to just the Boba Fett/Jango Fett costumes or can other variations on the Mandelorian armor be accepted? I'm a new, please be easy on me!! :)


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Fundraiser planned for 12-year-old Hudson cancer patient
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent | January 08. 2014 10:34PM
McKenzie Lowe, a Hudson sixth-grader, was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer known as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) in November 2012.
Late last November, McKenzie's family made a public plea for support, noting that an experimental new drug not yet approved by the FDA might be their last hope.
The family hopes to travel to Texas soon for McKenzie's treatments, though as it stands now they're still awaiting word on whether that will happen.Meanwhile, McKenzie and her family are trying their best to remain positive.Frank LaFountain, McKenzie's grandfather, said McKenzie spent four days at Children's Hospital in Boston last week after contracting a stomach virus and a bad sinus infection.
By Tuesday afternoon, McKenzie was feeling much better and attended a roller skating party with her Girl Scout troop.
"Frank approached me with the petition," Lavery recalled. "I told him we'd love to host a fundraiser."
"As a parent myself, I'm hoping we can make it extra special," Lavery said.
Highlights of the fundraiser include a silent auction and performances by the Granite Statesmen singers.
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I've been to busy looking for work, and working my new temp job to do to much for hunting. I have killed a whopping 9 ducks this year. Down a bit from my 72 last season, and not looking like it is going to pick up for a while. I was supposed to get out this weekend but was asked to move an interview to Saturday, which is weird. But hey its a real job. So Hope you guys are doing well. And if you know of anyone looking for a salesman and would be willing to entertain training someone who may not have worked in their industry, but will learn it and work hard, give me a heads up.
OK enough personal promotion. I hope everyone has a great Christmas. I'll be hunting finally. I just need to get out Sunday to scout my new spot. I was given a tip by someone moving out of state. LOL.
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Should i buy this type of vest instead of the clothing type?
in a guy's store on ebay he selling boba armor etc...the vests he makes is vinyl what im wanting to know is these better and more durable than the clothing type?..The vest comes with the armor on it alredy.
The armor on the vinyl vest is sintra...
All i need left is a good vest with the armor, i have some boba sintra armor that has been alredy cut etc into its shape i just need to paint it but im lost there too..
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Officials encourage drivers headed out into winter weather to take extra caution and to ensure their vehicles are prepared for the cold.
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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is responsible for 60,000 lane miles for snow and ice removal, according to the agency.
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Woooooooof !
Sorry I didn't get a chance to respond to this sooner, I was out today because my Mom had a Day Surgery. Everything went well though.
Thanks everyone for the kind words :)
Appolo_50 - Thank you. The base colors are all sprays (custom by Sherwin Williams). I had mixed the paint with testors enamels originally, and then took it down and had them matched.
Well Paid Killer - You know good and well that I don't :lol
Mirax H - A machine ? Wow, I kinda like the sound of that. Seriously though, since this whole project started almost a year ago (8.5 Months), it seems that I have become more machine than man, twisted and evil :lol :lol Thanks Mirax
Del Fargazer - Thanks !
MaxPlague - Looks like you gotta lot to do buddy, the those gauntlets and helmet and all, better get crackin :D
journeymanprotector - Too kind man. But thanks :) As far as a tutorial goes, I've been asked before, and it's still not a real easy thing to do, because I wing it most of the time. No two buckets alike and all. I just use plenty of Ref CD Pics and lots of teeny weenie brushes, and real tired eyes, with many headaches :lol I use a combination of custom mixed enamels, and custom mixed acrylics for the weathering and damage topically. I dry brush most of the weathering colors, and use whitewash, to mute/brighten colors. I cut small low tack masking tape strips to mask off areas when possible to get crisp when warranted. The main ingredient, is actually Scitch Bright Pads. After I detail a section of the helmet, I use a scotch bright pad lightly over the mettalic and layered grayish areas, and it actually brings everything together while actually wearing away the edges of surrounding colors exposing a more natural random effect. Probably sounds crazy I know :lol Perhaps after I finish, I can make the time to type one up with some pics.
Ego - Thanks Jer :) See my response to JMP above :lol
death to windu - Thanks Bud !
SEEKER - :lol No way man, not even Thanks Buddy :)
secol_FETT - Thanks Man !
DL44 Blaster - Thanks Buddy :D
Halo_1 - Thanks !
Lynn TXP 0369 - Whoa ! Backup :lol Thank a bunch my friend :lol
TK9120 - Thanks Man !
BobaFettish - Cat got it ? Thanks buddy :lol
tteF aboB - Too kind as well :) Thank you. I put a bit of info in my response to JMP above about a tutorial.
tk0000 - Thanks bud :) I posted some info about the colors to Apollo_50 at the top of this reply.
Defiler - Thanks ! Will keep progress posted.
TK-Fett - Thanks man ! :lol Okee, Okee, I posted some info in my reply to JMP above .... I will put more info up in the future, I promise :lol
crisisfilms - Thanks Buddy :) Okee, Okee, I posted some info in my reply to JMP above .... I will put more info up in the future, I promise :lol
Ego - :lol Pretty raw man, pretty raw :lol Thanks bud !
sith_camaro - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I know . Call me pokee :D
Boba Freekk - :lol Thanks man . I posted some info in my response to JMP toward the top of this reply. I hope it helps some.
MegalomaniacalMandalore - OH STOP ! :lol Thanks man :)
To all those that are asking about a more info/tutorial, I will gladly post more information about my own techniques in the near future when I have more time available.
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4 New Hair Colors For Spring
Follow and get inspirations from what celebrity does, as their picture is made by colorist and stylist who catch the most trendy latest hairstyle and hair color type which is a great concept to have a new hair color by following what superstar does.
SOMBRE is Spring new hair color trend.Sombre stands for subtle ombre hair ,which means ombre with softer transition.Celebrities change hair colors to ombre or sombre for public glances, attracting many consideration and eyes.It's a much less drastic approach to try an ombré look;the gradation of color isn't as extreme and truly stunning on brunettes,adding golden honey hues which are super complimenting.
Platinum Blonde
Blondes are going from warm golds to iced-out ,almost nearly silvery hues.
If you got a light,cool skin tone, this look will be just right for you, too.
Silvery champagne shades are the must to take a look this season for blonde.
Violet Glaze
Medium skin tones look nice in violets.Medium brown or lighter is the most efficient hair color to begin to reach this mild violet hue.
Golden Copper
Golden copper and champagne colored shades are appropriate for redheads this spring.Copper red are just perfect.


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They came by the thousands into the streets of Tehran, many wearing black with the Mousavi campaign signature's green wristbands and red roses could be seen in the hands of those who were tired of having their nation transformed into a giant jail. They had come to mourn the death of Neda Soltan who was brutally shot during protests in the aftermath of the stolen Iranian presidential election. Hundreds of police wielding batons struck repeatedly at those who had come to express their grief for a young woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mir Hossein Mousavi who "lost" to President Ahmadinejad was forced to leave the cemetery but his wife gained entrance. She walked into the cemetery along with many clerics and former members of Parliament. Neda's mother spoke for everyone by saying: "Her death has been so painful that words can never describe my true feelings. But knowing that the world cried for her has comforted me."
Ahmadinejad is "president of Iran" but even conservative Iranian clerics are furious at his incompetence and brutality which has unleashed a wave of fury against leaders of the country. The Ides of June may well be warnings that Ahmadinejad's tenure in office will be short.


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'Also pleased to be in a real hockey market, Ott has a style of play that has a chance to win the favor of her supporters. Because he used to be a rock in the shoe of his opponents. This is one of the most hated players in the league. But because of the shortened season, he knows that the discipline could be costly.'
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This comforting combination from the Taste of Home Cooking School Recipe Collection is sure to warm you up on a chilly day. (See page 66 for details about the Cooking School.) Tender chicken breasts, sweet potatoes and green beans are cooked in a simple broth seasoned with rosemary, garlic and thyme.
- 4 bone-in chicken breast halves (8 ounces each), skin removed
- 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into large chunks
- 2 cups fresh or frozen cut green beans
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- In a large nonstick skillet, brown chicken over medium-high heat for 4-6 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 170°. Add sweet potatoes and beans.
- In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; pour over chicken and vegetables. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Golden Chicken and Autumn Vegetables in Quick Cooking December 2000, p33
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Career Placement
A graduate of the University of New Haven Industrial and Systems Engineering degree program will be prepared for employment in a wide range of industries, consultancies, governmental agencies, and non-profits, including Sikorsky Aircraft, Boeing, Dell, Electric Boat, General Dynamics, General Electric, Hamilton Sunstrand, HB Maynard, Lockheed Martin, Merck and Company, Oxfam, Pfizer, Pratt and Whitney, Unilever, UPS, and IBM.
While many positions are offered by the industrial and pharmaceutical sectors listed above, others are offered by smaller companies, some known as "feeders" to the list above. The list of such companies is too long to include here but some representative companies in Connecticut are Barden Corp, Kendro Labs, Marlin Firearms, Northeastern Electric, Perkin-Elmer, Proton Energy, Schick Wilkinson-Sword, United Illuminating, and Covidien.
Although job titles vary by employer, job type, work experience, and academic background, the most prominent job titles are Business Engineer, Contract Engineer, Decision Support Analyst, Industrial Engineer, Lean and Six Sigma Specialist, Operations Analyst, Operations Engineer, Productivity/Performance Specialist, Productivity Engineer, Project Manager, Systems Analyst, and Systems Engineer.


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|Actor Slash, Actorfic, Real People Stories, Real Person Slash, RPS, RPF, RPFS, RLF, namamono
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|FPF, Category:Celebrities & Real People
|Click here for related articles on Fanlore.
RPF, short for Real Person Fiction or Real People Fiction, is fanfiction written about actual people, rather than fictional characters. For works specifically about athletes and sports personalities, see Sports RPF. For works on musicians and bands, see Music RPF. For works on historical figures, see Historical RPF.
RPF has been around since at least the late 1960s, growing alongside media fandom in conjunction with stories about fictional characters (FPF).
RPF has the same variety as FPF. Some of it is non-sexual, some of it is sexually explicit, and a lot of it is shipfic, whether het, femslash, or slash. In femslash or slash oriented fandoms, the terms Real Person Femslash or Real Person Slash (RPS) were used. For a while, RPS was the more commonly used term in many fandoms than the more inclusive term RPF--note the naming of early to mid 00s fandoms like boyband slash, Popslash, Lotrips, and Bandslash--though in the 2010s this is no longer the case, at least on AO3 and Tumblr.[1][2] It is possible that the term RPS predates RPF. Japanese doujinshi creators call RPS "namamono" (生モノ), which literally means "raw food".
"Actorfic" is an older term, one that is specific to fanfiction about television and film actors.
See Timeline of RPF. NOTE: This desperately needs information about Sports and other non-media RPS fandoms.
Fiction About Famous People
There have always been stories about "real people", their adventures and their sex lives, written by authors as diverse as Homer, Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genjii), Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Pynchon.
Alexander the Great was an immensely popular figure of legend. Centuries after his death in 323 B.C., fantastic tales were spun about his adventures.
All four surviving Brontë children [1] wrote many stories about the Duke of Wellington and his two sons, Charles and Arthur. Their portrayals of Arthur became mythic (and erotic) in scope; he became the Duke of Zamorna and presided over the empire of Angria with many epic adventures.
Most published historical fiction includes real people as main and/or secondary characters.
In Commercial Celebrity Materials
In the 1930s and 40s, publicity for film stars included authorized novels depicting their fictional adventures. Mostly published by Whitman and described as "The Newest, Up-To-The-Minute Mystery and Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls, featuring your favorite characters," they depicted Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, John Payne and other Hollywood legends solving mysteries or getting into perilous situations. Even Alfred Hitchcock was depicted as a mentor to some junior detectives, in the Three Investigators series. Such tales also appeared occasionally in what were then called "movie star magazines".
Teen magazines of the 1960s and 1970s sometimes printed similar stories of popular teen celebrities in fictionalized adventures. These stories, almost certainly written with the co-operation of the celebrities themselves, via their agents and publicists, included romantic and adventure plots that would be familiar to fanfic writers everywhere. Blogger Mike Sterling describes one such story in his own collection, and includes an excerpt and a drawing from the original source. In the story, a girl named Cindi and Donny Osmond are involved in a scenario with hypothermia and huddling for warmth that fannish readers might see as Hurt/Comfort.[3]
Published Works of Celebrity Erotica
Commercial works depicting famous people in sexual situations are fairly common, especially in purported memoirs such as Casanova's Story of My Life. Tijuana bibles were pornographic unauthorised comic books, featuring celebrities, published in the USA between the 1920's and the 1960's. Paul Krassner's 1964 surreal fantasy of Lyndon Johnson molesting John F. Kennedy's dead body [4] is another example of the genre, one that uses the famous to create a shock effect. In 2000, the horror writer Poppy Z. Brite published Plastic Jesus, a thinly-disguised Alternate Universe in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney fall in love and come out as gay[5]. Starf*cker is an 2001 anthology in which "Carol Queen does Marilyn Monroe, Bill Brent does Elvis, Cecilia Tan does Ziggy Stardust, Michelle Tea does Motley Crue (all of 'em!), M. Christian does Whoopi Goldberg, and Susie Bright does Dan Quayle" [6]. In 2006, Rockfic Press began publishing collections of fan-written stories about musicians and their sex lives in trade paperback format [7].
The Virtuoso is a 2009 novel by Sonia Orchard about an Australian pianist, Noel Mewton-Wood (1922-1953, suicide), from the point of view of a fictional obsessed fan; in form and content, this story reflects possible experiences of the fannish RPF reader. It also includes a depiction of the London bohemian scene with its open sexual variation and homosexuality.[8] Books like Mary di Michele's Tenor of Love (2004) about Enrico Caruso, and the historical romances of Mary Renault about Alexander the Great, also count as RPF even when they depict events and relationships that are known to have happened.
In 2003, JournalFen user dejla noted,
"Fandom didn't invent RPF.....One of my guilty pleasures were the Whitman series. It's where I found my first Old-Fashioned Girl and my first Heidi's Children. It's also where I found various books based on - real people. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Annette (as in Annette Funicello), copies of Pollyanna and the Little Colonel illustrated with stills from the filmed versions.
I also remember a fiction story published in 16 Magazine.... in -- I think it must have been 1967 or possibly 1968 in which a teenage runaway (female, natch) is rescued from her situation by some teen heartthrob of the time. It might have been Bobby Sherman, or at least, that's what my mind remembers.
It was also 16, I think, which published several pieces of Dark Shadows fan poetry and prose.
I'm sure that the 'lives' pictured in these had little or nothing to do with the real lives of the actors. If I remember, Annette lived with an aunt on the beach in California. I remember distinctly a scene in which she was pounding abalone prior to cooking it. And it had a mystery plot -- that was the period of Betty Cavanna.[9]
But there have been many other examples. There's a series of books in which Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are co-detectives. Sherlock Holmes has met Queen Victoria - and Oscar Wilde. I ran across another book in which Arthur Conan Doyle was a minor character. There are several movies in which fictional characters meet real persons.For that matter, Little Woman might count as RPF. Louisa May Alcott based it on her family, although a somewhat idealized family."[10]
The First Fannish RPFs
One of the first pieces of Star Trek fan fic to appear in a fanzine was RPF -- "Visit to a Weird Planet", written by Jean Lorrah and Willard F.Hunt [11]. In it, we follow the characters from Star Trek when they are swapped with their real life actor counterparts; as Kathy L. remembers, "There were also cameos by 'Gene' (Roddenberry) and 'Fred' (Phillips, the make-up man.)" A sequel, "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" by Ruth Berman, took place at the same time but followed the actors, who suddenly find themselves on the real Enterprise. This story was later reprinted in the professional anthology Star Trek: The New Voyages #1 (Bantam, 1976). Kathy L. notes: "As was the case with many early ST zines, the issues of 'Spockanalia' were sent to Gene Roddenberry's office, to be shared with cast and crew (some of who sent back LoCs). Plus, since Ruth's story was approved for printing in a professional anthology (with a foreword by Roddenberry and a story intro by Majel), it's reasonable to assume that this early version of RPF was not looked at askance by TPTB. What Shatner and company thought is not known, but I'd be surprised if they cared, as the story was quite harmless." See Star Trek RPF.
1977 brought Overshadowed, a controversial Dark Shadows story which involves two fans at ShadowCon and what they discover. One fan writes: ""Overshadowed" has drawn the fire of several of my correspondents, and no doubt you have already received adverse criticisms of it. You see, Jonathan was very sensitive about being 'overshadowed' by the character of Barnabas. Some people were cruel enough to tell him they were fans of Barnabas Collins, not him, and he was deeply hurt by these comments. Of course the writers, not knowing him as we long-time fans do, just wrote it as a clever story, but we hope he never sees it." [12]
Blake's 7 soon followed in the 1980s and 1990s with a similar series of stories, The Totally Imaginary Cheeseboard, The Cost of the Cheeseboard and The Other Side of the Coin. Very few people had any trouble with these stories -- they were gen and humorous. Indeed, Kathy L. notes that these zines "included disclaimers that made it very clear they were written with the full knowledge and permission of all parties (actors and fans)."[13] RPS (sexual stories about the actors themselves) are pretty much unknown in Blake's 7 fandom. [14]
Other examples of early RPF are The Professionals zine Dead Beat which features a Moody Blues/Pros crossover (1982) and the Luminous Times Universe. Luminous Times, a shared universe, was was created during 1988-1992 and featured the members of U2 mixed with other media characters.
The RPS Underground
By the mid to late '70s, stories depicting homosexual encounters between real-life actors and rock stars existed for Star Trek and Starsky & Hutch[15] actors. Blake's 7 and The Professionals also had RPS fandoms, but writings based on these actors rarely appeared in zines, or the circuit, except in cases where the characters and actors were meeting.[16]
There were Moody Blues fan communities and Beatles fan communities, only tangentially connected to media and slash fandom at the time. Led Zeppelin fandom took hold among women who already were media fans and had internalized media fandom's strictures against RPS, and was reborn as Tris/Alex or Allyn Sterling/Derek Quinn. Everyone in the fandom was clear who those names stood for, and yet giving them new names (and a slightly adjusted backstory for each pairing) normalized the pairing -- Tris/Alex stories appeared in media fanzines without outcry; the Allyn Sterling/Derek Quinn novel was advertized in media fandom adzines. A Metallica fannish community started in the 80s, but their fanworks, for some reason, didn't make it into mainstream slash fandom.
In 1985, a fan registered her fears and displeasure about RPS in the Professionals fandom with a comment that was in regards to Death on the 9:13 to Birkenhead, a 1985 circuit RPS tale which caused a great deal of fannish discussion, most of it negative.
- "I think... the stories, in ANY fandom, that deal with a '/' relationship between real people. It's not only dangerous, but it's the height of bad manners and bad taste as well. Consider: how would you feel if you found out that people you thought were friendly were telling stories (true or not) about your sex life? Stories that could get back to your friends and families?... We may own the characters we write about, but we do not own the actors who created them. Friends, this is libel!... If you've got to write the stuff keep it to yourselves and if you have to share it, why not have the courtesy to change the names'" [17]
Some people have ethical and moral qualms about writing fan fiction about real people, even when those people have very public personas. There have been heated and intense discussions about this topic in fandom; these continue to crop up periodically, even though overall the pro-RPF position has become dominant in media fandom. Other fans were convinced that RPF was more legally actionable than FPF. For these reasons and others, RPF remained largely underground in media fandom until around 2001-2002.
One basis for it staying underground may have been the reaction of actress Tori Spelling and her lawyers to a piece of Forever Knight fanfiction, written in the mid-1990's, that included her as a character. The story supposedly portrayed her according to her public persona at the time, but she took offense and threatened to sue the university that hosted the ForKNI-L and FKFIC-L mailing lists. The lawsuit was averted, but the result was very strict rules forbidding the inclusion of any real people in stories posted to lists hosted on the psu.edu server (which included the main Highlander lists as well), without specific written permission from the person in question. A lot of fans remembered what a near-miss that was for a long time, and many new lists forbade RPF of any sort as a precaution, keeping "actor fic" largely underground for several more years.[18]
The RPS Comes Above GroundIn 1987, the Star Trek: TOS zine, Shadows in the Rain published an RPS story, something that caused a huge amount of fannish discussion:
Another early example of RPS Star Trek fiction, published in 1988, was Sojourns. In 1989, a fan expresses her discomfort, and fear, of the author's use of the Star Trek creators in a slash novel, despite the fact that it was only a brief mention:The most disturbing thing about SHADOWS IN THE RAIN is that it encourages a basic tendency in fans to forget the separation between the character and the actor. I realize that this particular story emphasizes separation, yet at the same it undercuts our ability to keep Leonard Nimoy separate from Spock by bringing him into a K/S fantasy. If it is permissible to include Nimoy in a piece of K/S fiction, then why not Shatner? Why not both both of them together? In fact, what's to stop the next writer from coming up with a Shatner/Nimoy story, totally violating the separation between fantasy and reality in K/S?.... We may be sliding down a slippery slope here. There is a definite ethical distinction between fantasizing about fictional characters, and fantasizing about real people. The first is harmless, the second may be hurtful in many ways... It is important to understand where SHADOWS IN THE RAIN could take us. It that direction lies a K/S that is neither moral nor sane. [19]
My only actual "complaint " comes with the passage which includes the very real characters of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, as well as Gene Roddenberry. Even though the story Ms. Hinson is trying to tell is a beautiful one, I'm not sure it was a wise idea to use actual names. Since I'm not really sure where the law stands on this matter, I'll reserve judgment, but to say it made me uncomfortable would be an understatement. [20]
In 1995, Sandy Hereld and Megan Kent hosted a panel about RPS at Escapade. Rather than discussing the merits of the genre they focused on how the "live" nature of the fandom (tabloid reports, celebrity activities) created highs and lows.
An example of a very explicit self-insertion 1987 fic featuring George Michael of the musical group "Wham" is First Fantasy.
"RPF" and "RPS" largely remained underground until about 2002. The interest in popslash was one fandom that brought the genre into higher visibility. Ironically, fanfiction.net, the then-largest and most comprehensive fan fiction online archive which initially allowed various forms of RPF, removed all Real People Fiction in 2002. Fanfiction.net previously had prohibited actorfic but had allowed other forms of RPF.
It was the internet that pushed RPF into greater visibility. From Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Henry and Cynthia Jenkins (2012):
[Cynthia Jenkins]: You dumped [a fandom] into the Internet and a year later, it was a hundred times bigger, and a year after that, it was hundred times bigger, and a year after that, it was a hundred times bigger. The growth was so exponential that the culture that had been transmitted was swamped by the newbies. And everybody felt like they had just lost control of their culture. Because in the past, you'd brought people into fandoms and cons a few at a time, so if you had a con with a hundred people, and you had ten new people, this was fabulous, but the ten new people didn't get to define what the con was. As opposed to having a con with a hundred people and having a hundred thousand people suddenly show up. You can't control that. And I think that there was a sense that everything was out of control, and that none of the assumptions that had come to be central to the culture could be taken for granted anymore. One key example here would be Real Person Fic. Because for a long time, I guess growing out of conversations like those with the actors in the mid '80s, there was a very clear sense amongst the fandom, "We're writing about the characters, we're not writing about the actors." RPF existed, but it was underground and it was acknowledged as a little transgressive, because you were really crossing a line there. And people enjoyed crossing that line maybe, but they still would pass the stories to their friends, they didn't publish them in zines. There was an assumption that there was a line. When everything slam-dunked the Internet, that assumption went out the window. And suddenly, people were writing stories about real actors as if they were characters with no sense that there could be a line. And I think, say, the old members of the community were looking in horror and thinking, you know, "Oh my God, they don't understand."[Henry Jenkins]: Because I think the actors who flipped out in Blake's 7 flipped out in part because they were anxious about how people perceived their sexuality as human beings, and were they showing too much of who they really were, I think there may have been some closet cases among some of those actors, it's hard to know. But the freakout was a very personal thing for them. And the fans had kept saying, "We're not writing stories about you at all. We're writing about our version of your character." And that line was very, very clear. And when writing Textual Poachers, people would slip me a Real Person Slash story every now and again, but I was absolutely told, "Don't write about this. This is the secret of the community." And I respected those secrets. There was no reason to reveal those secrets. And the taboo was there for reasons. I'd lived through the Blake's 7 blowup. I understood why people were so — why that was a very sensitive area. Then, suddenly, a decade later, this is all over the Internet, and people are starting to write about it, and other academics have published about it, and it's just like—the side of me that lived through that history, I cringe. And more and more, when this stuff comes out, and I still have this kind of reaction.
RPF Debate Points: Pro and Con
These are a few examples of the pro/con discussion around RPF, 1992 to 2005.
- "I've talked about a "transparent veil" that separates fantasy from reality in SDB fandom - it's transparent, but it's still a veil, and it's tacitly understood to be there by the people who are playing together. It means there's not the need for constant disclaimers that "Joey and Lance are SO doing it, and I mean that in a fantasy, in-my-head way."[21]
- "I guess 95% of my enchantment with fandom went swirling during the first go-round of RPS wars, back in, oh, 1999 or so. (Damn, that long ago?) Suddenly all kinds of people whom I thought were cool and open-minded were acting like judgemental, homophobic, hypocritical holier-than-thou jerks."[22]
- "It could be argued that celebrity is the contemporary (or postmodern, heh) 'fictional character'. Just as boybands are generally (obviously) comprised of a group of created personalities, so too are any celebrity you see reported in the papers - Jennifer Lopez, Tom & Nicole, Elijah Wood. These celebrities are creating a character - performing a fictional character in a way, to (and via) the media and general public. Just as the record labels create personalities and characters for members of pop groups, so too are publicists, editors, lawyers, etc. creating a personality for celebrities."[23]
- "I am genuinely amazed that a fandom made up of women can really truly believe that their right to write actor slash is more important than an actor's right to privacy." (anonymous conversation on private list, archived by sherrold)
- "I do not want to see person slash and i certainly don't want to afford it the same ethical status as character slash because i think ultimately it will only damage the character slash community. If "real name" slash is written, it shouldn't be circulated." (anonymous conversation on private list, archived by sherrold)
- "When you create a universe, with characters and situations, you get to play god. The universe, the characters, the situations are all objects that a writer manipulates to her heart's content. When you write about real people, regardless of situation, you have turned them into objects. Maybe this is neither good nor bad, but I feel that much of what past and current women's (and minorities) struggles are about, is a passion to NOT be objectified; to be viewed as individuals, as human beings, not things." (Nicole V, post to Virgule-L, 1992 -- quoted with permission.)
- "As women, we have a very big stake in the right to privacy. I am genuinely amazed that a fandom made up of women can really truly-ully believe that their right to write actor slash is more important than an actor's right to privacy. Also, let's quit calling this "actor" slash. That'a as dishonest "anti-life" rhetoric. We are talking about "person" slash. Martin Shaw is a person employed as an actor. When a story is written about Martin Shaw getting fucked by Lewis Collins, it is Martin Shaw getting it, not his profession." [24]
- "That being said, here's my opinion on people writing sexually oriented fanfiction about real people. It's WRONG, CREEPY, VERY EXTREMELY ICKY, and should be ILLEGAL. Anyone still unclear on my feelings should read the previous sentence again. I think fandom is a wonderful thing, and I love my fans. But there are lines that should not be crossed. Writing and publishing sexual fantasies about real people really crosses some important lines. I think it is an horrific breech of good taste, common sense, and basic human rights. If I were an actress or other public figure and found myself the subject of such "fanfiction" I would feel raped. But hey, that's just my opinion." ~ Lynn Flewelling, professional author to her fans.[25]
- "few things squick slash writers across the board, but i've always thought that "actor-slash" was a sure-fire way to do it -- or "actor-fic" of any sort, sexual or not, really. the characters are ours to play with; rb, gm, and the rest of pet fly are their own people, and while we may gossip, we do not rewrite their lives." [26]
- "As I said there, as much as anti-RPS people throw around the words "immoral" and "unethical", most of their arguments tend to come down to "You could get sued!" or "You make fandom look bad!" or "I just don't like it."[27]
- A list of other arguments against RPS: "If you write RPS but change the names, that would be okay, even if the characters are still recognizable as celebrities; RPS about living celebrities is bad because there's a lack of consent, but historical RPS is okay, because everyone involved is dead; RPS draws attention to fandom, and when you get sued, you'll take everyone down with you! The celebrity in question, or his friends and family could find it, and it would squick them; Writing about raping a celebrity could be percieved as a threat against them; If you write RPS, it could be percieved as harassment/stalking/libel; RPS is stalking. And also rape; RPS is an invasion of privacy," and "Some people might think its real."[28]
However, even after RPF gained wide acceptance in the late 2000s, many fans remained strongly opposed to its existence: "I find "Wincest" to be a preposterous concept and the public distribution of RPS (or RPHet, if that exists) to be crossing a line that makes me want to deny being part of fandom if anyone asks." [29] As of 2015, a Fail_Fandomanon thread titled RPF, love it or loathe it could still get a wide variety of responses on where fans draw the line on what is and is not okay to write about.
The Tipping Point
Although RPS was on the rise, most pairings were rare without a huge fandom and infrastructure in place. That made the RareSlash mailing list a place that was destined for clashes between RPS fans and opponents. After a discussion about 'Tallislash and Musicianslash and how to rationalize it', starting on January 17, 2000, the list owner announced on January 24 that "I will from now on allow realpeopleslash on the list, IF and only IF it is properly labelled."[30] That resulted in a heated discussion on the mailing list with several members threatening to leave the list and to pull all their fic from the archive if RPS was allowed. In the end the list owner revoked the new rules, RPS remained forbidden and a new list was created on January 26, 2000: RS-X [RareSlash-X] is a spinoff-list of RareSlash, where the 'RealPeopleSlash' rule doesn't apply. You have been warned.[31] The RareSlashX Archive was one of the early RPS resources in media fandom, the RealPeopleSlash WebRing connected sites with RPS content[32], and The Fan Fiction Directory opened up a short-lived spin-off for RPF[33] to make it easier for fans to find what they were looking for.
By the middle of 2001, the visibility of RPF and the ever increasing number of traditional media slash writers who participated in RPF-based fandoms such as popslash reached a tipping point; fannish articles such as RPS on the Net[34] and Frequently Made Objections against RPS v. 2.0 discussed RPF in spaces formerly reserved for fanfic about fictional characters. As the number of RPF fans grew, and Livejournal allowed fans to move away from moderated mailing lists, major fandom opposition to the existence of RPF ebbed. Meta discussions shifted more to the form and content of the genre.
The Social Network fandom illustrates the intertwined layers possible with RPF, where the characters in the book and 2010 movie are themselves real people while the actors themselves have fans, so fanworks are generally based on a mixture of fiction and what reality has been disclosed or discovered.
What is an RPF Character?
A frequent question around RPF is, "who are we writing?" Most fans agree that the characters we're writing about are the public personas of real people, not the real people themselves. (In fact, some people feel strongly that only big stars, the types who can afford to have their personas rigorously shaped and fashioned, should be used as RPF characters.)
In "RPS characters are empty signifiers", Lobelia321 says that RPF characters are less real than FPF characters. "Rps characters, by contrast, are total chimaerae. They are wraiths (and not of the SGA variety). They are insubstantial; they are surface; they are the ultimate screens for our projections."
In "RPS: Another Perspective", Hederahelix claims that the lines between FPF and RPF are often quite thin. There are plenty of FPF Phantom Menace stories that don't "make sense unless you'd seen the other roles Ewan McGregor had played," a clear case that "the actor's body (and the other roles that actor has played) does in fact inform character slash."
See also: Canon in Real Person Fiction.
Well, How Would You Feel If It Were You?From time to time, both pro and anti-RPS supporters face the question of how they would react if they learned someone else had written an erotic story involving them? In 1996, Sandy Herrold asked (and answered that question) in a post titled "Unwritten rules, and the evolution of a consensus" posted to the Virgule-L mailing list:
A couple of people have sent me mail asking what I meant by "If, without asking me, someone wrote a slash story that had me, by name, getting fucked (consensually or no), I would want to know."
During a time of high passions, one fan wrote a another fan into a Pros story--using both her first & last name. In the story, she is forced to have sex with Bodie, and then consents to having sex with both Bodie and Doyle later.There was an outcry at the time (though a small one: although the person written about was well known, she was better known by her pseud than her real name, and many readers didn't know the woman named was a fellow fan). The consensus took sometime to develop, but most people decided that putting an acquaintance in a story for the circuit without telling them was inappropriate at best.
Acceptance of RPF, Acceptance of Slash
Levels of acceptance towards different kinds of fanworks has been a fluid one, and it seems there is always enough shaming of fans by other fans to go around: a fan in 2004 posted on a mailing list that she'd prefer to "leave my concerns about the author's mental state out of" discussions of why fans wrote, and by extension read, RPF. Another fan replied that it "was not that long ago since comments about the mental state of people writing *slash* were commonplace, and still are, dependent on where you go in various fandoms." [35]
Multifandom RPF Communities
- RPF Big Bang - a challenge for RPF stories over 15,000 words. Began in 2009, continued for a second round in 2010.
- What We Keep - RPF Shared universe began by poisontaster in the story, A Kept Boy.
- The Establishment - an RPF RPG.
- Handbasket News - an RPF newsletter.
Some RPF Pages on Fanlore
- See also: Category:Celebrities & Real People
- Category:Actor RPF
- Category:Music RPF
- Historical RPF
- Political RPF
- Pundit RPF
- Reality TV RPF
- Royalty RPF
- Sports RPF
- Category:RPF Fan Interviews
- Category:RPF Meta
Meta and Further Reading
See also Category:RPF Meta
- "Groupie" by Jenny Fabian, a thinly-disguised RPF, for-profit book, see Groupie; archive link, a June 2013 blog post about this famous book
- Slashers of Silicon Valley, essay at Fanfic Symposium by Dara Sloan (uses the term "actor slash") (1999)
- Any *NSYNC/XF crossovers????; archive link (uses the term "Real Person fic") (2000)
- RPS Reality Check, essay at Fanfic Symposium by Dara Sloan (2001)
- RPS: Writing Under the Influence, essay at Fanfic Symposium by Kit Mason (2001)
- Real Person Fic justification in Fannish Theory Forum, , September 26, 2002, discussion started by Purple Popple at FanDomination.Net, eight pages of comments
- All About the Pairings, or From the Outside In, essay at Fanfic Symposium by Sandy Keane (uses the term "RPS")(2002)
- REAL PEOPLE FICTION; reference link, a collection of links on Livejournal by cathexys between 2002 and 2005
- The steamy side of slash fiction, a repost at alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated of a Canadian article called "The steamy side of slash fiction: For many teenage girls, writing about pop culture figures is a way to examine issues of sex and sexuality" (includes actor Ian McKellen's comment: "I find nothing harmful in sharing fantasies about favourite characters or their interpreters - even real person stories seem unobjectionable as they are clearly fictional."") (2003)
- this is not the post you're looking for, Archived version by sinead (2003)
- Fact, Fiction, and the Writer's Responsibility to the Truth, essay at Fanfic Symposium by nopseud (2003)
- RPS, Boybands, and Dead Guy RPS, essay at Fanfic Symposium by Michelle Christian (2003)
- I Don't Believe in Real People, essay at Fanfic Symposium by Justine (2003)
- Because We Love Our Gods: Mythoi, Logoi, and Real People Slash, essay at Fanfic Symposium by joudama (2003)
- Trekkies And RPS, post and comments at alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (2003)
- Real People Fiction, essay at Fanfic Symposium by Kristina (2005)
- some anti-RPS arguments that I do not understand; Archive (2005)
- RPF?! (post), posted to Fanthropology (2005)
- all i do is talk; archive link by winterlive (2006)
- On RPF/RPS, and Why Real People Are Just Better by phaballa
- RPS and privacy by ignaz wisdom (2007)
- Compartmentalization and RPF; Archive for page one; page two; Archive for page two; page three; Archive for page three by FairestCat (2007)
- this is what i do when i should be cleaning; archive link by turnyourankle (2007)
- [ an inspired word will come across your tongue ]; archive link page 1 by winterlive (2007)
- RPF Wives and Girlfriends, Archived version by hector rashbaum (2007)
- In Defense of Wives and Girlfriends, Archived version by fairestcat (2007)
- On FBR/MCR Bandom and the Fourth Wall; archive link by lady sorka (2008)
- History of Real Person Fic - Fan History Wiki Entry, Archived version (2008)
- ActorFic - Fan History Wiki, Archived version (2008)
- What is RPF Anyway? by yourlibrarian (2008)
- RPS in The Sentinel Fandom? (2008)
- RPF - just stop doing it., Archived version by khyber (2009)
- Real Person Fic (RPF) - Fan History Wiki, Archived version
- Don't think twice, it's all right: ten easy excuses for RPF writers; archive link by emily shore (2009)
- Real Person Friction; archive link by wendelah1 (2009)
- Whither the Squick by yourlibrarian (2011)
- Pimp My Fandom: RPF; WebCite, by Kriken and elanorofcastile at Slashcast, (2012)
- Narrative in RPF by mistresscurvy (2013)
- SOME THINGS THAT MAKE RPF UNIQUE, Archived version (2015)
- Canon Shipping vs. Fanon Shipping, Archived version (2015)
- Shipping Real People is OK… As Long As There's Boundaries; WebCite (2015)
- On social media, 'Mary Sue RPF' and consent; WebCite (2015)
- Pete Doherty on Libertines erotic fan fiction: 'It's weird, suddenly my cock will be in Carl's ear', Archived version (August 27, 2015)
- RPF Today: RPF Outside the US and Youtube RPF, Archived version (Nov 22, 2015)
- The Ethics of Real Person Fiction – FAN/FIC Magazine, Archived version (March 6, 2016)
- ↑ In the 2015 discussion Was Fanfic Any Different in the Olden Days?, Tumblr user braindamageeclipse remembers, it feels to me like a lot of big sea changes happened in fic around 2000-2001. The widespread, strong taboo against RPF (still then more often called RPS, because back then the word "slash" was still the "understood he" of fic parlance. 19 January 2015.
- ↑ AO3 has a policy of appending RPF and not RPS to fandom tags; whether this naming convention contributed to or was a result of the changing usage is unclear.
- ↑ Mike Sterling, This is the most I have ever written about tampons posted November 12, 2009, accessed March 25, 2010; WebCite.
- ↑ Slaughtering Cows and Popping Cherries by Paul Krassner, (originally published in The Realist, 1967)
- ↑ Plastic Jesus on Amazon.com
- ↑ Product description of Starf*cker on Amazon.com ISBN 978-1555835163, 2001, accessed May 13, 2010
- ↑ press release, June 10, 2005
- ↑ Interview with Sonia Orchard accessed May 7, 2010
- ↑ In addition to writing dozens of mystery stories, Betty Cavanna practically created the modern teenage-girl novel. Her heroines confront everyday life problems with which adolescent readers can identify.
- ↑ dejla. Some thoughts about RPF... dated September 15, 2003; reference link.
- ↑ From Spockanalia 3, ed. by Devra Langsam and published in 1968
- ↑ from an LoC in The World of Dark Shadows #16/17
- ↑ Kathy L. in an email to Speranza, Feb 27, 2010
- ↑ Three comments by long-time fans in 1995: "If *anybody* has ever seen and read one of these alleged "actor" slash stories for themselves, especially one that has been circulated and/or published, I would love to hear about it," and "I've never seen a slash story that used the actors themselves. I as don't know anyone who has either. If I ever did see one, I would consider it offensive," and "If such a thing had been published, yes, those 'involved' would have every right to be *very, very* upset with the perpetrators, but I have yet to see proof that it has been." -- comments by Ann W, Judith P, and Ruth S respectively at Lysator, April, 1995.
- ↑ See the Purple Pages.
- ↑ There is more than one Professionals story where Martin Shaw acted as an actor-matchmaker to Bodie and Doyle. [find stories]
- ↑ The Hatstand Express #7
- ↑ Personal memory, and "ADMIN: Thinly disguised real names", accessed October 3, 2008
- ↑ one fan's opinion from On the Double #5, for more fan reaction to this story, see Shadows in the Rain.
- ↑ from a review in On the Double #10, see the Sojourns page for more reactions.
- ↑ Marythefan, 2002-11-23, accessed April 27, 2010
- ↑ Dara Sue's LJ, 2003-07-30
- ↑ angstslashhope, 2004-10-14, accessed April 27, 2010
- ↑ March 25, 1993, quoted anonymously from Virgule-L
- ↑ posted on the Flewelling yahoogroup mailing list, Dec 11, 2004.
- ↑ Richard Burgi chat transcript, comment to a transcript alt.tv.sentinel, February 1999
- ↑ comment by a pro-RPS fan summarizing the arguments against RPS in a August 2005 fanthropology thread RPF!; WebCite; reference link.
- ↑ some anti-RPS arguments that I do not understand a list of anti-RPS reasons along with counter-poitns debunking them dated March 24, 2005; reference link; WebCite.
- ↑ Comment by klangley56 in goodnightsong's livejournal post The subject of slash, dated June 1, 2008; accessed Feb. 9, 2011; WebCite.
- ↑ ADMIN: Real People slash et al, in: RareSlash (Yahoo!Groups), 24 January 2000, accessed 28 March 2010
- ↑ RareSlash-X (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RS-X/) created 26 January 2000, accessed 28 March 2010
- ↑ RealPeopleSlash WebRing, earliest known Wayback version 29 March 2001, accessed 28 March 2010
- ↑ Old index page of The Real People Fan Fiction Directory via Wayback, archived version from 07 November 2001, accessed 01 October 2009
- ↑ reference link.
- ↑ quoted anonymously from a private list, October 13, 2004


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Question about re-covering seats.
(This is for my 89 Firebird Formula, copy/pasted from my post on another forum so i didnt have to re-type. if you want to see pics of the seats for any suggestions/advice, www.cardomain.com/id/89formulaws6 has a few pics)
I'm ordering the tweed for my door panels, seats, etc. tomorrow and just have one question. I plan on carefully taking the current seat covers off so i can trace/cut out the new fabric the same shape as the old ones, then sew it together and stuff. Shouldnt be TOO hard if i take my time and stuff, but my only concern is that i'll end up with that cheap 15 dollar wal-mart seat cover look...ya know, real loose, etc. How do I get the material to stretch nice and tight and conform to the contour of the seats? I dont want the fabric stretched flat across the seat back because of the bolsters or whatever, same with the seat bottom. Also, if I want to do some sort of design in the fabric, should I sew the fabric to some thin foam and sew the patern or whatever it is i decide to do in like that? That would be the only way I could think of to add shape to the seat covers so it looks better than just a sheet of fabric thrown over the seats. Thanks,
(BTW anyone have pics of seats theyve recoverd themselfs?)
Being an upholsterer, I guess its time to put in my 25 cents worth here.
First off, when you disassemble the origional cover, use a seam ripper. (can get at Wally World or your local sewing shop). Be as careful as you can not to cut the fabric with the seam ripper, when you cut the stitches. Once you have disassembled the seat cover, lay the panels out on some cardboard and using what are called T-pins, pin the panels out flat and let them lay that way for a while to somewhat restore the origional shape.
You will notice that on the back of some panels, there will be a piece of 1/2 inch foam sewn to it to give it "fluff" and to accentuate the stitching pattern. You will need to get this as well.
If you are doing both the front and rear seats, a 3 yard roll, should provide all you need.
If you are going to do your sewing on a regular home sewing machine, you may run into problems with penetration of the layers of material and keeping them aligned with each other, so you will want to pin the pieces together when you sew them, using the previous mentioned T- pins and spacing them about every 6-10 inches.
If you are going to have to do any channel stitching of foam backing to panels, do this before you cut them out.
Cut the panel and foam somewhat larger than what the size of the finished panel will be. Its easiest to do the stitching if you just cut the oversized panel in a rectangle or square.
Make the first stitch the one down the center of your fabric. As you stitch, and feed your material through the machine, press down and slightly pull outward on the fabric and foam so that the foot of your sewing machine has less compressing of fabric to do. You will want to sew the panel fabric and foam together with the fabric on top, using a thread that matches the fabric in color.
When you cut out your pattern using the old panel, lay the old panel on top of your new fabric, and using the T-pins previously mentioned, pin the edges of the two together at intervals of 4-8 inches, or as you feel that contures may direct. Be sure to work out all the wrinkle and puckers in the fabrics when you lay them out. Trace around your old panel with a felt tip.
If your seat has welt cord, this requires a special foot for your machine to properly make. So you may want to take your welt needs to someone who has a machine with a welt foot on it, unless you can get one for your machine.
Use upholstery thread for your sewing as regular clothing thread wont get the job done.
If you have any questions, dont hesitate to send me a PM. Ill do what I can to talk you through it.
When you remove the seat covering, a lot of the mysteries of how its made and installed will come to light. You will need a pair of good sharp side cutters to cut through hog rings that are placed at stratigic locations through out the seat.
Auto upholstery comes in rolls of an average of 60-64 inches wide and is sold by the running yard. You will need to measure your material and figure out how much you will need.
The way to do that is to carefully measure each piece then with a piece of paper lay out these measurements in squares and rectangles on your piece of paper.
Once you get your "squares" laid out, figure up your total yardage needed. Careful placement of your "squares" can help reduce the amount of fabric needed.
Welt requires long strips 1 1/2 inch wide and as long as you can make them. That makes for less splicing stips together. Splices can be a real pain for looks. This is another thing you will want to figure into your fabric needs. Measure out all your welt, then place the stort sections into your layout of fabric on your paper as you are able to place them. For instance, if you have a section 4 iches wide and 3 ft long with nothing in it, you can make two pieces of welt out of that and these could be used on the cushion and back of the seat. The welt going around the boxing or edges of the seat can require pieces up to 7-8 ft long. Those should be cut from the running yardage.
Last edited by Max Keith; 12-10-2004 at 12:35 PM.
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