At 21:47 2/27/1998 GMT, Gary Kleppe wrote:

Lizsue <Lizsue@MIT.EDU> wrote:

Well, with a major public figure it's accepted as parody.  With your
friends, it's more personal and can hurt a lot more.  I'm not sure about
Takahashi - if this was a Japanese forum it would be more obviously a parody
but since she's not as famous here it somehow doesn't have the same effect.

*Boggle*

Takahashi-sama not famous on this list?!

Oops!  I didn't mean that!  I wasn't counting specialized forums like the
FFML.  For example, since I live in metro Boston and not metro Kyoto very
few people I know off the list have any clue who Takahashi is.  And if it
wasn't clear, I don't think using real non-public-figure people in fanfics
is necessarily bad but we just need to be more careful.

BTW, may I point out that a Takahashi-kami figure played a major role in
another fic several months back -- and nobody said a word?

Good point.