I always thought they were two seperate fandoms. They are treated that way in Lord of the Rings, Blake's and Star Trek. I think Highlander had terms like Twincest for stories that crossed between an actor's two shows...
Worst comes to worse, just write an article for Wikipedia clearly delineating one from another like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Real_Person_Fic and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slash_fiction as a lot of fandom seems to hold those up as great sources.
Getting more on track, I'd be curious to know if the reasons that RPF and media fandoms are getting confused label wise is due to the growth and acceptance of RPF as a legitimate part of the greater fan fiction community. As people accept it and include it in their internalized definitions of fan fiction, they are more likely to overlap. They might not see a need to maintain what might feel like artificial boundaries that older, not with it fen are demanding?
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Worst comes to worse, just write an article for Wikipedia clearly delineating one from another like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Real_Person_Fic and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slash_fiction as a lot of fandom seems to hold those up as great sources.
Getting more on track, I'd be curious to know if the reasons that RPF and media fandoms are getting confused label wise is due to the growth and acceptance of RPF as a legitimate part of the greater fan fiction community. As people accept it and include it in their internalized definitions of fan fiction, they are more likely to overlap. They might not see a need to maintain what might feel like artificial boundaries that older, not with it fen are demanding?