RPF sickos unite: it's time to write your most cherished, buckwild rpf crossovers. We are BACK for 2026!
What: A prompt meme with predetermined prompts for crossover rpf fandoms and pairings! Any and all rpf crossovers are welcome, any and all fanworks are welcome!
How: Choose a prompt (or multiple prompts!) from the prompt list - or come up with your own - and create a fanwork with at least two RPF fandoms and crossover pairings. Add it to the collection when you're done.
When: Fest starts NOW and ends 9/1/26. You can post as soon as you finish your work - no reveal or anon periods! Submissions are rolling through September 1st, after which the collection will be closed.
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For years, as early as 2006, there have been discussions about what the term "Bandom" means, and debate among different parts of fandom as to which bands the term includes. You can read about the history of this terminology on Fanlore's Bandom Terminology Debate page.
On the Archive, this lack of consensus has caused inconsistencies in which bands are subtagged to the Bandom fandom tag and which are not. There has also been confusion among users over the terminology, leading to conflicting requests to remove or add particular fandoms as subtags.
To address this issue, wranglers will be changing the structure of the Bandom tag. All fandoms currently subtagged to Bandom will become stand-alone fandoms, unassociated with the Bandom metatag. The Bandom tag itself will remain a canonical fandom, but wranglers will no longer subtag any Band or Musician fandom to this tag.Â
Moving forward, "Bandom" will be strictly a self-defined term -- creators who feel that their works should be classified as "bandom" are welcome to use that fandom tag, in addition to any other band or musician fandom tags that they feel are appropriate. This should allow users to browse only works that the work creator has directly defined as "bandom", as well as reduce confusion in the future about what is or isn't included.
So for example, a work tagged with the fandom "Duran Duran" will no longer automatically appear in the Bandom tag. The work's creator can choose to tag Bandom if they would like their work to appear in that tag.
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I love to read patbri rpf fanfic still and thereâs some really compelling and pleasurable stories written in their tag. I just have to say I saw some... screenshots of how those writers behaved when someone said they wish sexual content was more separated from the main piece of writing and that less of it was so heavily sexual and kink related. They became very defensive and rude about it, and I remember reading the screenshots and thinking how childish they were being for what wasnât even a callout, just someone wishing certain things were more accessible to them and minors. These writers were the same people who wrote some of my favourites. It was a real disappointment, so be aware of this when youâre reading most of the fics on my fav list. Obviously I enjoy sexualised content between adults rpf or otherwise and I donât see that as the problem just the way in which these writers behaved. Â
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Okay. I will probably always stan Nick. I have written hundreds and thousands of words of fanfic featuring him, his radio show gives me an enormous amount of happiness and I think heâs great. At the same time, I donât have to unequivocally love my fave and accept sometimes they will do things that jar with me. Louis certainly has. Harry has. Nobodyâs perfect and sometimes we hold people up to unrealistic standards. This post is NOT an excuse to bash Nick. Garbage about Nick is not something I welcome or support. Iâm not here for any of that. What I do want to do is open up a discussion about celebrities opining on fanfiction.
In my post on RPF and Fandomâs Fourth Wall (or why breaking the fourth wall in the interests of shipping pursuits is nobodyâs friend) I wrote about how frustrated I get when fans themselves deliberately break the fourth wall, tagging and linking celebrities to things which bring them into our private spaces. Rarely, if ever, has this resulted in celebrities developing a positive, well-reasoned view of fandom. Instead it gives them a skewed view of fandom spaces as controlled people who have no concept of personal, private boundaries when it comes to celebrities. Celebrities then (perhaps rightly) feel at liberty to opine on areas they know very little about in ways that can make fandom participants who are respectful about the celebrities they love, keeping under the radar and just enjoying creating transformative works for the fandom community feel small.
Listening to Nick talk about fanfic on the radio this morning - something heâs done before - actually gives me hives and itâs very difficult not to have a personal, visceral reaction to it. When Nick decides fanfic is weird all I hear is âNick thinks Iâm a weirdo.â Nick doesnât know me, itâs illogical and ridiculous, but itâs what I hear all the same. When he seems fascinated (in a negative way) by the length of the stories and the time investment put into creating transformative works, it makes me feel like Iâm personally wasting my time. It has the impact of making me question a private space which gives me so much pleasure. It feels like a punch in the gut, like being called out by someone you admire. Itâs not the first time itâs happened and it wonât be the last. Iâve heard Benedict Cumberbatch give his completely misinformed views on fanfiction and fandom demographics. Iâve had to eye-roll at some of the opinions on shipping coming from the SPN actors at fan conventions. Iâve gritted my teeth through countless moments of talk show related âhilarityâ where everyone from Tom Felton (a rare celebrity who respectfully engages and interacts with his fan communities, shipping and transformative works) to Tom Hiddleston get shown fanart or conduct readings of fanfic which people never intended to be ridiculed on such a wide, public level. Letâs be honest, itâs usually just another case of dudes mocking women, and we get plenty of that already, thanks.
This issue extends far beyond a throwaway conversation between Nick and Niall this morning. It runs much deeper because it happens, all the time. Fan communities are consistently utilised on the one hand for the commercial power they wield and denigrated on the other for their âstrange and unusualâ pursuits. You see it everywhere from the rise in terms like slash-wink, ship tease, fan service and queerbaiting to the misogynistic and ageist stereotyping of fandom participants. I remain desperate for celebrities to actually educate themselves on fandom communities to the extent they plan to talk about them, even just a little. Fandom demographics are consistently misunderstood, together with fannish pursuits. I long for someone in the public spotlight to be able to engage with the broad and rich history of fanfic, to speak back to fandom in its own terms, to understand the creative importance of these largely female populated spaces, the positive impact of accessible, queer narratives, when the mainstream lag behind, on the one hand queerbaiting and on the other providing representation couched in stereoptypes and tokenism (with one or two exceptions). I have a whole paper on the meta-textual fangirl in Supernatural, but thatâs another discussion.
I rationally understand that for the celebrity stumbling across fic, it must be very strange to find stories people have written about you with explicit content. But letâs be abundantly clear. These stories may be written about you but they are certainly not written for you. They are works of fiction which have been inspired by aspects of your public persona but they are fiction. Please also understand most fans do not write from the perspective of hoping youâll find their stories and fall in love with the person youâre paired with. Most writers would really prefer it if you didnât find their stories at all. They would definitely prefer not to be mocked for writing them. While weâre at it, as youâre already online, youâre just a google search away from actually figuring out a bit more about this âcrazy, odd, fanficâ thing. If itâs so fascinating and hilarious you think itâs worthy of a mention, actually do some bloody research about it and understand thereâs an increasingly growing field of scholarship on this stuff, a whole history of suppressing womenâs writing which ties into discourse on fanfic and some pretty good stuff out there.
To celebrities engaging with the alien worlds of your RPF fandoms (all celebrities, not just Nick, Niall or whoever else wants to speak about fanfic in public spaces). Please, please, stop using fanfiction to get a cheap laugh. Please stop making fun of these spaces unless you understand them and are prepared to engage with their complexities and nuances. Please understand the people who are creating these works are your fans. If youâve got time to find stuff to make jokes about, take five minutes to find an article - any article - written by an actual fan and understand the history and importance of transformative works before dismissing them so easily. Think about the people who put hours into creating something and respect their privacy as they (hopefully for the most part) respect yours.
Now Iâm going to stop feeling annoyed, put on my âIâm an adultâ hat and remind myself. I do not need or want a male celebrity I love to validate how I engage with fandom. I go back to articles like Elizabeth Minkelâs excellent Why It Doesnât Matter What Benedict Cumberbatch Thinks of Fanfiction and revisit similarly fan-positive discourse from writers such as the always excellent Aja Romano. I go back to my books, like Rhiannon Buryâs âCyberspaces of Their Ownâ and Anne Jamiesonâs âFic: Why Fanfic is Taking Over the World.âÂ
In RPF fandoms in particular there is an enormous fourth wall issue and itâs becoming ever harder to maintain, but Iâm still keen to try. The fans who are respectful about the celebrities they love do not need anyone to validate what they do creatively within these fandom spaces. I just sometimes need to take a breath and remind myself of that.
so you're saying you dont think it was fucked up that dan was on that panel
iâm saying that youtube (and fandom) creates an atmosphere that makes us feel like theyâre just regular people that we hang out with a few times a week when we actually donât and that i want to save you all from the hurt if/when one of them does something super fucked up by reminding you thatÂ
1. we donât know them2. our interests/values are not necessarily their interests/values (sometimes even when they tell us that they share those interests/values)3. rich white men are gonna rich white man4. always & forever, whether its a good thing or a bad thingâyoutube is a job for them
I come from fandom and stan culture, I would never survive as a "groyper" because I'd act too different from a normal one. Frequently in fandom culture people thrive on ships, and gay ships more than anything, that's why I love Naden, Nestiny, and other Nick/Male ships, but I also love Nick/Female ships like, him and Destiny's ex-wife, Melina, or him and Kathy Zhu. I like all Nick ships, and it's fun to participate in because, it's fun to imagine, homophobic Nick Fuentes in a gay relationship with his best friends, and it's also fun to imagine him in relationships with women who he'd never be with because they are "too degenerate" i.e. Melina, or too "forbidden" to date, like in the case with Kathy, who is an Asian woman that he clearly fancies despite saying he believes interracial marriage is wrong. LOL It's just lighthearted, and it doesn't have to really go deeper other than, hey, you just like to imagine what would Nick be like in a relationship with "x, y, z" person or people. Sometimes it's fun to participate in theories that Nick is secretly gay, or to write fanfiction of Nick x Jaden, or to draw gay ship art of Nick x Destiny or whatever. Groypers won't understand this, because they don't come from fandom culture, they don't see how participating in something like this, can be fun to do.
