I don't read RPF, and I've been assuming that I don't care for it, but perhaps there actually is some RPF out there that I would enjoy. Certainly vampire Richard III sounds interesting.
I used to be the same, but then I noticed historical RPF being a thing for yuletide, which I thought should really just be original fic, but since then I've come round to the idea that if "history" or specific subsets can be a fandom and treated in the same way as other things, as can other sorts of RPF. And then I've wound up wrangling some stuff. I have to say, I don't usually see things I want to read in top level RPF or British Actor RPF, but Historical RPF is a whole other thing. And some RPF is fanfic for things like panel shows and Time Team and Top Gear, and it's just fanfic again, except the fandom is technically RPF. And some of those can be huge fun too. I suppose it's like anything - a lot of people from the outside think the whole of fandom and fanfic is just loads of Shades of Grey stuff. And while there is, of course, a whole heap of slash and pr0n, we know there's plenty more going on.
And, LOL, I don't know if I'll ever write that fic, but I did start it, because, you see, there is a book series called "Tudor Vampires" and I was very disappointed to hear that it was about people who fought vampires in Tudor times and not the Tudors themselves being vampires, which would have been far more entertaining (well, possibly), and then somehow wound up with Richard being one instead & merging with taking Henry VII fulfilling the Matter of Britain literally. Mind, in my WIP notes I also have stuff about people breeding giant snails in France, so I don't know what I was on at the time!
And there was a fic in the NYR collection just now that was a fusion of 19th C Historical RPF and Have I Got News For RPF (a long-running satirical UK topical panel show), which was awesome. So, yes, it's the stuff like that that makes RPF worthwhile for me!
I'm not quite sure what constitutes "the issue coming up again in the future" -- more people complaining?
I'd think so - they do take every complaint seriously, and whatever you got back from support, behind the scenes, the wrangler will have had to explain why it is the way it is, and not the other way before support goes back to you. It's not always satisfactory, of course, but they do take things seriously & you weren't the only one who contacted support about that one.
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I used to be the same, but then I noticed historical RPF being a thing for
And, LOL, I don't know if I'll ever write that fic, but I did start it, because, you see, there is a book series called "Tudor Vampires" and I was very disappointed to hear that it was about people who fought vampires in Tudor times and not the Tudors themselves being vampires, which would have been far more entertaining (well, possibly), and then somehow wound up with Richard being one instead & merging with taking Henry VII fulfilling the Matter of Britain literally. Mind, in my WIP notes I also have stuff about people breeding giant snails in France, so I don't know what I was on at the time!
And there was a fic in the NYR collection just now that was a fusion of 19th C Historical RPF and Have I Got News For RPF (a long-running satirical UK topical panel show), which was awesome. So, yes, it's the stuff like that that makes RPF worthwhile for me!
I'm not quite sure what constitutes "the issue coming up again in the future" -- more people complaining?
I'd think so - they do take every complaint seriously, and whatever you got back from support, behind the scenes, the wrangler will have had to explain why it is the way it is, and not the other way before support goes back to you. It's not always satisfactory, of course, but they do take things seriously & you weren't the only one who contacted support about that one.