so what are people going to do when everyone stops writing rpf because some of you can’t follow the most simple, basic rules of fandom etiquette, and keep it IN fandom? what are you going to do when nobody is creating for you anymore? is that how far it’s going to have to be taken? you have to realise that when it comes to rpf, they are REAL PEOPLE. it’s not cute or funny to alert those people to fiction written about them, especially when we as authors specifically request that you don’t. this is absolutely the sort of thing that will kill rpf fandoms for good.

fandom etiquette is dead, and it's killing our writers

i do think at some point we have to consider that bez genuinely enjoys the extremely obvious rpf ship edits of himself that he is consistently reposting on tiktok. i think we have to allow him that agency