I get what you're saying and I totally respect your discomfort with not writing non-celebrity characters! I just don't think it's true of the fandom as a whole, you know? I see plenty of WAGs, footballer offspring and people-somehow-affiliated-with-football in fic, and if someone doesn't want to write or read them that's cool, they don't have to, but it's not like fbslash is actually pretending to avoid them on legal or ethical grounds. their policy is "no het or gen" not "no non-famous characters". I personally operate on the "it has nothing to do with the person I'm writing about and I couldn't care less what they would think about it, just don't send them a link and we can go our merry ways" philosophy but I recognize that that's a personal philosophy and I would never dictate where somebody else should draw the line. I still don't think that's the main issue going on here as far as rules go, though. I mean, I have written fic featuring Emili Ricart, who is as far from a celebrity as it's possible to be while still being employed by FCB (he's not even on Twitter), and there's no problem with that as far as unwritten rules of fandom go, so far as I can tell (though to be fair I'm not sure anyone would tell me if I had crossed a line). he's got his own tag on the AO3 now, congrats Emili! if I wrote a romantic story about him there would be no problem posting it anywhere in the common spaces of this fandom. I don't particularly want to read a fic about Anna Ortiz either, but I think somebody who wants to write about her (or the lady doctor of Chelsea fame, which is possibly more comparable) should have the same ability to share that story that I do when I write about Emili Ricart, you know? nobody has to read either fic if it makes them feel uncomfortable on ethical grounds. but it strikes me as weird and questionable that it's totally okay according to fandom rules to write these women as bit characters with zero agency who exist only as part of the scenery, but it's not okay to write them as the protagonists of their own love stories.

(I'm with you on the comments on Kickette, though. forums for comments on the internet are a special level of hell. avoid at all costs. but I am really glad that Kickette exists, and it wouldn't without comments, so I will be grateful that comments enable it to continue existing and just never read them!)

idek, man. if I knew what I liked so damn much about football, maybe I'd figure out how to stop caring. XD