lotesseflower: (very) brief meta point - It's a mistake, I think, to see all fannish involvement with a text as somehow indicative of what fen want that text to be. Ficcing a pairing doesn't mean you want them together in canon - although it can mean that, of course - so much as it means that you see an interesting possible story in their hooking up. -
emily_shore: Two kinds of RPF - It seems to me that there may be two basic types of RPF, distinguished by the attitude of writers. One group of writers sees the real people as cast members of sorts in an original drama created by themselves, while the other group wants to explore the individual dramas that have been or are being lived by the real people. -