I'm still not entirely sure whether it was right, and I've no idea how you would draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable integration of real events of this nature in fic.
I think it's easier to say what's completely unacceptable than what's borderline, which to me would be things like the use of disaster as a flimsy plot device to get character A and character B shagging. It would probably depend on the talent of the author in question as to how contrived a disaster backdrop appears, I guess...
But I think absorbing real events into fictional situations can be a way for viewers or readers to access the events on a different level.
There's certainly been a long tradition within fic of using stories as therapy of a sort, though again this can be kind of awkward and unsettling for the audience. It's the kind of thing that (for me) begs the question 'okay, so it was good for *you* but does that necessarily mean you need to share it with everyone else?'.
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Date: 2005-08-31 06:31 pm (UTC)I think it's easier to say what's completely unacceptable than what's borderline, which to me would be things like the use of disaster as a flimsy plot device to get character A and character B shagging. It would probably depend on the talent of the author in question as to how contrived a disaster backdrop appears, I guess...
But I think absorbing real events into fictional situations can be a way for viewers or readers to access the events on a different level.
There's certainly been a long tradition within fic of using stories as therapy of a sort, though again this can be kind of awkward and unsettling for the audience. It's the kind of thing that (for me) begs the question 'okay, so it was good for *you* but does that necessarily mean you need to share it with everyone else?'.