Oops

[przed]

I've already mentioned fandom and fanfic in Ros' presence, but she's just tumbled to a another piece of the fandom puzzle.

We were visiting my mum this weekend, and last night Ros talked her grandmother into letting her watch Hockey Night in Canada. As I have absolutely no affection for hockey, and Ros was engrossed in the game, I pulled out my laptop and started working on my Take That secret agent AU. (32K words and counting!)

But then, without my noticing, during a break in play Ros came over and sat beside me and started reading over my shoulder. Which read to this exchange.

Ros: Is your story about the guys in Take That?
Me: Um...No! Absolutely not! What makes you say that?

I don't think she was convinced.

And man, why did she have to read the RPF? Though I suppose I should be thankful that it wasn't an obviously RPS scene. (Not that I'd write a sex scene with my mum in the room. She's already proven she's not above reading my stuff over my shoulder.)

Why is my family so nosy?

::headdesk::

Comments

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I can imagine the headdesking *g* In some ways I think it would be easier to explain to a child than to an adult - I mean, in school children are constantly asked to do creative writing tasks like 'imagine you are a character in this story and write a letter to another character' (or I was!) which is I suppose to do with comprehension and empathy and language skills, but still fanfic! It's just that people don't expect adults to interact with texts in that way. Just like no one thought of adults using colouring books until someone figured out it was quite fun and quite soothing and labelled it 'therapy' and there you go *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

In some ways I think it would be easier to explain to a child than to an adult

I read this and a light bulb went off over my head. I think if we'd been home, I would have given Ros a very basic explanation of what I was doing it and been done with it. But there is no way I would ever do that with my mum in the room. I've given her a very basic idea of what fandom is, and she's read my fantasy story that was a Pros slash story with the serial numbers filed off and liked it, but I think the whole RPF/RPS thing would do her head in. Because, as you say, people, and especially people from my mum's generation, don't expect adults to interact with texts that way. Except we totally do!

I am also totally down with the colouring book thing. I've had a colouring book with translucent pages of Mexican Day of the Dead pictures for ages, and Ros and I do a page every year ahead of Hallowe'en and put them all up on our windows. If I had more spare time, I would totally buy one of those lovely mandala colouring books. Or just take up drawing again. Or both!