Reili von Wildcat

Fan
Name:	Reili von Wildcat
Alias(es):	kisforkurama, flyingthesky, hesatreat
Type:	fanwriter, fanartist, podficcer, remixer, vidder, community moderator
Fandoms:	YouTube RPF, Bandom, Les Mis, High School Musical, The Social Network, Sherlock, and Kingdom Hearts, among others
Communities:	YouTube Slash (moderator), Seven Awesome Slashers, hosted the YouTube Slash kinkmeme
Other:	uses it/it/its and she/her/hers pronouns
URL:	flyingthesky at Dreamwidth kisforkurama at LiveJournal flyingthesky at Twitter
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Reili von Wildcat, aka kisforkurama or flyingthesky, is a prolific fanwriter (as well as podficcer, remixer, vidder and fanartist). Primarily active on DreamWidth and LiveJournal, she has created more than 400 works that span a variety of fandoms, with a prominent focus on RPF. She has also written fan primers and fannish essays on various subjects, most notably on the validity of RPF.

YouTube Slash

Reili was a BNF in early 2010 YouTube RPF, specifically #y_slash, which centered around popular vloggers. It was also a mod for YouTube Slash, an lj comm that was popular from 2010 - 2013. It hosted the YouTube Slash kinkmeme, which ran from 2011 to 2013, and is one of the last surviving vestiges of #y_slash fandom.

The YouTube Slash Kinkmeme

Also known as the '#y_slash kinkmeme, it ran from March 9, 2011 to October, 2013, and garnered over 400 comments (a respectable number for such a smaller fandom). With the deletion of the YouTube Slash lj comm, it (and therefore, Reili's livejournal as a whole) is one of the few (if not the only) early 2010s examples of YouTube RPF livejournal fandom.

The Mermaid Fic

On December 16, 2010, Reili posted a post entitled "[fanfiction] #tweetfic and technical exercises", a fic roundup post of various ficlets. Some of them were collectively titled "the one where sons of admirals are mermaids".

On December 18, 2010 Tom Milsom tweeted:

Last thing: the one where Sons Of Admirals are mermaids and in love is amazing

--@hexachordal on Twitter

There's a debate over how, exactly, he found the fic. Reili has at different points stated that it was the fault of Alex Day, or Teoh Lander-Boyce.

Whoever it was, it eventually proliferated amongst the entire band, and led to the dubious fame of, in her own words, "an entire band read my fic and once a member used it as a punchline".

Defense of RPF

• "RPF is not creepy, Charlie".
• "How to Deal with Slash About You".
• "a story about rpf (and also shit I'd rather forget)".

Notable Fanworks

the one where sons of admirals are mermaids Fandom: YouTube RPFGenre: Mermaid AU

A groupslash fic where The Sons of Admirals are mermaids. Also known as the infamous fic Teoh Lander-Boyce tweeted about.

Pete Wentz vs the World (This Ain't a Date, it's a Goddamn Death Match!) Fandom: Bandom,Genre: Scott Pilgrim AU, multimedia fic

A Pete/Mikey Scott Pilgrim AU. "It is Summer of Like if Summer of Like involved magical realism, unicorns, video game mechanics, and a league of twenty evil exes."

Tabooverse (series) Fandom: Bandom,Genre: BDSM AU,

A universe where kink is normal and music is kinky.

Charlie, the failiest vampire Fandom: Bandom,Genre: Vampire AU

Charlie is seriously the world's worst accidental vampire.

human/cyborg relations Fandom: TSNGenre: Robot AU

Mark Zuckerberg is the world's most powerful technopath and the creator of Facebook, the most sophisticated facial recognition program ever created. Eduardo Saverin is the world's most robotic human being and the person who's going to steal Facebook, under Sean Parker's orders. It's a love story, I swear.