RPF

RPF, short for Real Person Fiction or Real People Fiction, is fanfiction written about actual people, rather than fictional characters. 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.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. 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 (1990s to early 2000s), one that is specific to fanfiction about television and film actors. 
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.
==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 (see Brontë family at Wikipedia]) wrote and roleplayed many stories about the Duke of Wellington and his two sons, Charles and Arthur.The Brontës at war: how Charlotte and Branwell brought Waterloo into their drawing room. BBC's History Extra, April 29, 2016. 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.Mike Sterling, This is the most I have ever written about tampons posted November 12, 2009, accessed March 25, 2010; WebCite.
The Brontës Went to Woolworths, (1931, reprinted by Bloomsbury, 2010), a novel by Rachel Ferguson, is about RPF. A slightly bohemian British family make up and roleplay a "Saga" with fantasy characters as well as imagined versions of various public figures. It's a humorous compulsion based partly on their theatrical background and partly on their open-mindedness to psychic phenomena. The plot thickens when they connect with the ghosts of the Brontë girls during a seance, and in everyday life with one of the subjects of their "Saga", an elderly judge, who with his wife begins to warmheartedly play along. Ferguson was a huge Brontë fan and wrote a play about Charlotte as well.
In 2003, JournalFen user dejla noted,
===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 Slaughtering Cows and Popping Cherries by Paul Krassner, (originally published in The Realist, 1967) 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 gayPlastic Jesus on Amazon.com. 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" Product description of Starf*cker on Amazon.com ISBN 978-1555835163, 2001, accessed May 13, 2010. In 2006, Rockfic Press began publishing collections of fan-written stories about musicians and their sex lives in trade paperback format press release, June 10, 2005. 
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.Interview with Sonia Orchard accessed May 7, 2010 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.
== RPF History ==
See Timeline of RPF.
=== The First Fannish RPFs ===
The first RPFs usually centered around the actors and characters inadvertently switching places, either aboard their respective spaceships or at fan conventions. This is sometimes referred to as real world crossovers.
Possibly the first example of printed RPF is The Convention of 1960, a humorous story written in 1939 and published in 1941 in Milty's Mag by Milton A. Rothman. The story imagines a science fiction con in the year 1960, featuring a number of fans active when Rothman was writing. It references a number of controversies of the time, including The Great Exclusion Act and the feud between the Futurians and New Fandom.
Another of the first pieces of Star Trek fan fic to appear in a fanzine was the 1968 RPF -- "Visit to a Weird Planet", written by Jean Lorrah and Willard F.Hunt From Spockanalia 3, ed. by Devra Langsam.. In it, we follow the characters from Star Trek when they are swapped with their real life actor counterparts; there were cameos by 'Gene' (Roddenberry) and 'Fred' (Phillips, the make-up man). Some other early examples of this type of Star Trek fanworks are "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (a Dorothy and Myfanwy story) (1970) by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson, Dream House (1974) and Karen & Leonard: A Monochromatic Romance (1975), all of which have no sexual component. 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." from an LoC in The World of Dark Shadows #16/17 
An example of an early Doctor Who RPF is "In a Glass Lightly," a 1982 story by Jean Airey in the zine Faces of Time #2. In it, Tom Baker walks off the set for the last time as Peter Davidson takes on the role of the Doctor. As Baker walks home, he finds a police box, steps in, and is transported to the Doctor Who universe.
An early example of Star Wars RPF is A Day In The Life... on the set and includes Irvin Kershner, George Lucas, as well as some of the actors. In that story, Mark Hamill loses his temper and kicks around the foam Yoda character. Another fic is 1982's "The Meeting" in the Star Wars zine Dark Lord. In it, Mark Hamill and Frank Oz converse on the movie set, and Hamill interacts with some Muppets. 
Blake's 7's early RPF in 1980s and 1990s had 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)." Kathy L. in an email to Speranza, Feb 27, 2010 RPS (sexual stories about the actors themselves) are pretty much non-existent in Blake's 7 fandom. 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 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. 
 
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 See the Purple Pages. 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. There is more than one Professionals story where Martin Shaw acted as an actor-matchmaker to Bodie and Doyle. [find stories] 
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'" The Hatstand Express #7 
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.Personal memory, and "ADMIN: Thinly disguised real names", accessed October 3, 2008
===The RPS Comes Above Ground===
In 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: 
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):
=== 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."ADMIN: Real People slash et al, in: RareSlash (Yahoo!Groups), 24 January 2000, accessed 28 March 2010 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.RareSlash-X (http://web.archive.org/web/20061115144429/http://groups.yahoo.com:80/group/rs-x/) created 26 January 2000, accessed 28 March 2010 The RareSlashX Archive was one of the early RPS resources in media fandom, the RealPeopleSlash WebRing connected sites with RPS contentRealPeopleSlash WebRing, earliest known Wayback version 29 March 2001, accessed 28 March 2010, and The Fan Fiction Directory opened up a short-lived spin-off for RPFOld index page of The Real People Fan Fiction Directory via Wayback, archived version from 07 November 2001, accessed 01 October 2009 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 Netreference link. 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.
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." Comment by klangley56 in goodnightsong's livejournal post The subject of slash, dated June 1, 2008; accessed Feb. 9, 2011; WebCite. 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.
== RPF Debate Points: Pro and Con ==
These are a few examples of the pro/con 1992-2005 discussions around RPF.
=== Pro-RPF===
===Anti-RPF=== 
 
 
==Characterization in RPF==
A frequent question around RPF is, "who are we writing?" How can there be an RPF character when a real person exists? 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.
From Episode 40: Extravaganza of the Be The Serpent Podcast:
Within RPF fandoms, there are debates over fanon characterization as there are in FPF fiction.
==Boundaries in RPF==
One topic of debate in RPF is who can be written about. Non-famous family members were usually off-limits. For example, Tallific, a Metallica mailing list founded in 1999, had a "No Wives" rule. However, this rule was never universal, and in the age of social media where relatives of famous people are also online, the line between famous and nonfamous is blurred. In One Direction fandom in the 2010s, many otherwise nonfamous people associated with the band are on social media, and bandmembers' parents appeared in the band's films and on The X-Factor. Meanwhile, in Bandom in the 2000s, many of the wives were well-known or famous, so the nonfamous rule didn't apply.
It is considered taboo to talk about shipping to the people involved. However with tinhats comes the problem of Tinhats and the Fourth Wall. There are some tinhats who make no effort to hide their beliefs or attempts to spread "the truth" and there are creators who make no attempt to hide their derision for fans.
A related concern is the danger of the subjects of RPF finding and reading RPF about themselves. Some fans care more than others. See also Bandom and the Fourth Wall, Hockey RPF and the Fourth Wall, and RPS and privacy.
Further Reading:
* RPF Boundaries - 2014 thread on fail_fandomanon
==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:
In 2020, a fan posted an update to a 2015 Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson story they had written: 
==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." quoted anonymously from a private list, October 13, 2004 
From the 2004 article Franz Ferdinand Don't Mind Being Coupled With Morrissey In Gay Fan Fiction, written by ChartAttack writer Sarah Kurchak about Franz Ferdinand's slash fandom:
A fan in 2019 wrote: 
===The Libertines and RPF===
Pete Doherty and Carl Barât from The Libertines are a popular RPF ship in Bandslash. In a 2006 interview for Boyz Magazine, Carl was asked about RPF involving him and Peter.
==Real Person Fanart==
===What RPF Fanart Isn't=== 
It differs from fan casting which is the practice of speculative casting, suggesting actors, characters, or other individuals to play characters without canonical real-life versions (for example, characters from a book, a cartoon, or a radio drama). Fan casting can be to offer a clearer mental picture when reading fic or the like, or just for fun. Fanfic authors may fan cast their own original characters as well by suggesting actors to picture. It is not RPF because only their physical appearances (and sometimes mannerisms of the characters they portray elsewhere) are utilized.
It also differs from straight portraiture, in which a fan portrays an actor that has no connection to an original character, as those fanworks are not used in a meta or transformative way.
====Portraits Are Not RPF Art====
 
File:Mccoystoy3art2.jpg| an example of an illo that is not RPF but instead a portrait of DeForest Kelley and his wife, Carolyn -- from McCoy's T.O.Y. #3 (1990)
File:Shootout2-3.jpg| an example of an illo that is not RPF but instead a portrait, from Shootout #2, artist is Ruth Kurz, portrays David Soul (who portrayed Kenneth Hutchinson) and his small son (1983)
File:Peg5-1.jpg|thumb|an example of an illo that is not RPF, from Pegasus #5, the artist is Karen River, portrays Mark Hamill's small son (1981)
File:Southernseven4-11.jpg|an example of an illo that is not RPF, Paul Darrow from Blake's 7 in Southern Seven #4, artist is Karen River (1988)
 
 File:Lnafyearbook1972-6.jpg|an example of a portrait, but not RPF is this illo from Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans Yearbook - it portrays Leonard Nimoy and his family, artist is Karen Flanery (1972) 
====Fan Casting====
File:She Walks in Beauty by sue k 6.jpg|an example of fan casting, from She Walks in Beauty #1, artist is Sue Krinard, portrays the character Catherine Chandler and the character Vincent Wells (who looks like the actor Ron Perlman) from Beauty and the Beast (TV) (1990)
File:Fifthseason3-13.jpg|an example of fan casting, he may look like a blond Ray Doyle, but he is actually Section Leader Dana Kuyler from "Two Steps Back" in Fifth Season #3, artist is Pat Cash (1984)
===What RPF Fanart Is===
Also see Manip. 
====Beauty and the Beast====
See Beauty and the Beast RPF.
 
File:Yeast5.jpg|by P.S. Nim from The Absurd Season, Catherine Chandler kisses Vincent Wells, and he turns into... Ron Perlman (1990)
====Blake's 7====
 
Image:Avon with cat.jpg|Kerr Avon with cat, Gareth Thomas and his wife Sheelagh, from The Totally Imaginary Cheeseboard, art by Gail Bennett (1988)
File:Downandunsafe3-8.jpg|Paul Darrow on a Blake's 7 set, the artist is Kathy Hanson, published in Down and Unsafe #3 (1985)
File:Downandunsafe3-7.jpg|Chris Boucher, Vere Lorrimer, Oscar Wilde in some Blake's 7 meta commentary, the artist is Kathy Hanson, published in Down and Unsafe #3 (1985)
====Lord of the Rings====
 
 Image:dominic3td6.jpg|the 2004 photomanip that inspired the phrase, My hed iz pastede on yay, portrays Dominic Monaghan hanging out in a fan's bedroom 
====One Direction====
 
File:Punklouis.jpg|2012 Tumblr punk edit of Louis Tomlinson of One Direction. This edit is unusual for Punk Direction edits in that Louis's head was photoshopped onto the body of someone who already had tattoos.
====Star Trek: TOS====
 
File:Spockanalia5inside7.jpg|from Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited, artist is Alicia Austin (1970)
File:Nimoyan4-2.jpg|from The Nimoyan #4, artist is Ev Turner, portrays Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and Gene Roddenberry: "They are still getting it all together..." (1973)
Image:talshaya2-3.jpg| some Gene Roddenberry/Majel Barrett/Spock speculation, from Tal Shaya #2, the artist is Laura Virgil (1974)
 
File:Startrektoday6-1.jpg|from Star Trek Today #6 (1975), artists are Burt Libe and Cara Sherman
File:Betanioberevisited-1.jpg|from Beta Niobe Revisited, artist is Signe Landon (1976)
File:Vaultone-2.jpg|Vel Jaeger for "Then There Was the Time" in Vault of Tomorrow #1, an RPF story in which the actors meet the characters. (1981)
A fan in 2008 wrote: 
====Star Wars====
 
File:Idontsmell1-7.jpg|from I Don't Care What You Smell #1, artist is Amanda Palumbo, from Carrie (1995) 
File:Idontsmell1-9.jpg|from I Don't Care What You Smell #1, references Carrie Fisher's drug use and her 1987 book "Postcards from the Edge," artist is Gerald Crotty, from Carrie (1995) 
File:Wellofsouls1-1.jpg|from Well of the Souls #1, artist is Sheila Truax, "Fun with George & Steven" (1982)
 
==Real Person Fanfiction==
* (Rhett McLaughlin/Link Neal of Rhett & Link) by thenthekneehits
===Ficathons===
* hosted by falseeeyelashes, 12 January 2013
==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.
* Slashass - slash fiction community with an associated efiction archive focused on several related reality TV, movie, and music RPF fandoms: Jackass, CKY Movies, Wildboyz, and CKY
* Diometrik - a German language RPS Yahoo Groups mailing list
==Some RPF Pages on Fanlore==
:See also: :Category:Celebrities & Real People
* :Category:Actor RPF
**Back to the Future RPF
** CWRPS
**Disney RPF
**Harry Potter RPF
**J2
**Jossverse RPF
**Lotrips
**Margin Call
**Merlin RPF
**The Phantom Menace RPS
**Sentinel RPF
**The Social Network Actor RPF
**Star Trek RPF
**Stargate Atlantis RPF
**Starsky & Hutch RPF
**X-Files RPF
* :Category:Chef RPF
** MasterChef RPF
* Historical RPF
* :Category:Music RPF
**Bandom (music source text)
** Bandom (Decaydance+, My Chemical Romance)
** Britpop
**Popslash
**K-Pop
**J-Pop
**Franz Ferdinand
**Motionless in White
* Political RPF 
* Pundit RPF
* Reality TV RPF
** American Idol
** Mythbusters RPF
* Royalty RPF
* Sports RPF
**Baseball RPF
** Basketball RPF
**Figure Skating RPF
**Hockey RPF
**NASCAR RPF
**Tennis RPF
* :Category:RPF Fan Interviews
* :Category:RPF Meta
==Meta and Further Reading== 
:See Timeline of RPF Meta for links listed chronologically. 
*Actors vs. Characters
*Actor Fic: pushing the limits of fandom by Erin [2001?]
:Also see :Category:RPF Meta.
==Notes==
==References==
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