Can you please elaborate on the Stephen Colbert RPF thing. This is a judgment free zone I’m just deathly curious
Ah yes well you see Stephen Colbert used to play a parody of a Fox News pundit on a show called The Colbert Report (American news satire program popular in the late 00s/early 10s). The character was explicitly a closeted gay man who was driven to conservatism due to his own insecurity/internalized homophobia. He had a homoerotic relationship with Jon Stewart whom he pretended to hate but had several romantic moments with.
When their shows ended they wrote a soft epilogue for their fictionalized selves where they retire to a cabin in the woods together and it’s implied they’re married now. The most beautiful self-written rpf of all time.
It was a beautiful slow burn self-written rpf that unfolded over, like, 10 years they worked together? It started as a joke but ended up being a genuine canon part of the fictionalized Stephen Colbert? I’m not joking.
We’ve literally lost such a fundamental part of our culture the day someone comes into my ask to be like “what would Stephen Colbert rpf even conceivably be about?”
For those who are curious, here is John Oliver talking about the RPF slash fanfic that was written about Stephen and Jon (and himself) during that time:
