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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.[1]
YouTube Slash
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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).[2] 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".[3]
On December 18, 2010 Tom Milsom tweeted:
Last thing: the one where Sons Of Admirals are mermaids and in love is amazing
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.[5]
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".[6]
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)".
Other Fandoms
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Notable Fanworks
References
- ^ "Reili on a Soapbox".
- ^ "#Y_SLASH KINK MEME".
- ^ "the one where sons of admirals are mermaids".
- ^ "Last thing: the one where Sons Of Admirals are mermaids and in love is amazing". Archived from the original on 2019-02-14.
- ^ "YouTube RPF". Archived from the original on 2016-05-11.
- ^ I mean that in a "an entire band read my fic and once a member used it as a punchline" way.