a prediction and an outcome
Dec. 18th, 2021 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraWas poking around in my own fannish history and I found this post about fandoms around reboots of a canon of which there was already a fandom, like reboot Star Trek or various Sherlocks Holmes. I had speculated that eventually there would be RPF fandoms around the biopic portrayal of people who had already had an RPF fandom in their original celebrity. (One smart person suggested there probably already were and we just didn't know enough RPF fandoms to spot them. Quite possible.) There are presently 3603 AO3 works tagged for Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) and 7809 in Queen (Band), so, behold! I have found one!
A little more fun with numbers because I'm like that: 3272 of the Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) stories are also Queen (Band), so they're a good chunk of the Queen (Band) works, but less than half. 335 of the Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) stories are also tagged for Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) Actor RPF, about the actors from the movie, of which there are 1207 total works. As a comparison, there are 300 works in Rocketman (2019), 20 of which are also Elton John (Musician) (who has 65 works in total under his tag) and 119 of which are Rocketman (2019) RPF about the actors from that movie.
I can only assume they'll be more of this sort of thing as time advances, and as earlier fandoms are more likely to be where we can see them - can't easily quantify earlier RPF that was happening in zines or yahoo groups or whatever. They were going to have Chalamet play Bob Dylan, who currently has 119 works under his musician RPF tag, about half of which pair him with George Harrison... (uh, Dylan, not Chalamet - the Chalamet tag has 1893 works, 229 of which aren't some kind of Call Me By Your Name actor RPF). I imagine some Chalamet fans would get excited about Bob Dylan if that movie ever actually happens.
A little more fun with numbers because I'm like that: 3272 of the Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) stories are also Queen (Band), so they're a good chunk of the Queen (Band) works, but less than half. 335 of the Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) stories are also tagged for Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) Actor RPF, about the actors from the movie, of which there are 1207 total works. As a comparison, there are 300 works in Rocketman (2019), 20 of which are also Elton John (Musician) (who has 65 works in total under his tag) and 119 of which are Rocketman (2019) RPF about the actors from that movie.
I can only assume they'll be more of this sort of thing as time advances, and as earlier fandoms are more likely to be where we can see them - can't easily quantify earlier RPF that was happening in zines or yahoo groups or whatever. They were going to have Chalamet play Bob Dylan, who currently has 119 works under his musician RPF tag, about half of which pair him with George Harrison... (uh, Dylan, not Chalamet - the Chalamet tag has 1893 works, 229 of which aren't some kind of Call Me By Your Name actor RPF). I imagine some Chalamet fans would get excited about Bob Dylan if that movie ever actually happens.
