A notice regarding future requests (PS, they’re still closed)
Requests are still not re-opened, I have way too much writing - asks and my own stuff - to work on, but I just want to make something clear going forward. I’ll add this information to my request FAQ as well, but I just want to make it clear to anyone who might be holding onto a request they haven’t sent yet.
I will only write for characters played by Frank Grillo, I will not write for the actor himself. No one has asked yet, but I was once asked to write for a specific actor whom I previously wrote for the characters of, and I wrote it even though it felt weird. It was fluff, it wasn’t anything I felt was objectionable (honestly, I might re-work it for some Frank character), but it was invasive and presumptuous to write about an actual person specifically. It was pretty chaste, just fluff, probably not even 1,000 words, but given recent events and for the sake of mine, his, and everyone else’s mental health, I want to make it clear I will never do this again. I have deleted the aforementioned fic from tumblr and A03 (if it’s anywhere else, it’s been stolen), and I won’t write for any IRL individual in the future.
If you write for IRL people, please do not take this as an attack, I am just making my own feelings regarding my own writing clear. We don’t know these people in real life - however much we might wish to. We wouldn’t want strangers writing specifically about us without our express permission; I’m sure these actors, musicians, and whomever else don’t particularly like it either (the Reylo fanatics who were shipping Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley together, harassing their partners and children, comes to mind).
I can’t say that I haven’t had dozens of fantasies, from G-rated to X-rated, flow through my mind regarding this man, but it’s unlikely they will ever reach a keyboard and I can guarantee they would never see the light of internet if I did actually write them. I won’t do it for me, so I’m not going to do it for anyone else.
Again...not an attack...just making my feelings clear.