dbskyler

I admit to not really understanding RPF. To me, there's a huge difference between Five(ish) Doctors and actual RPF. It's like the show "Episodes" -- have you heard of that? It's a show about the television industry, and Matt LeBlanc plays the actor Matt LeBlanc on it. Except, the character of "actor Matt LeBlanc" is not really Matt LeBlanc. In fact, the real Matt LeBlanc won a Golden Globe for playing the character, and was nominated for an Emmy, so others out there must think he was acting and not just being himself on the show. (Besides the fact that he has lines to learn and everything.) Would his role in that be RPF, even though everyone else on the show is a completely fictional character, and he interacts with the fictional characters in entirely fictional ways?

If I don't understand RPF, then I really don't understand cracky RPF, or AU RPF. If you want to write about real celebrities, and imagine them doing certain things and having relationships with each other, fair enough, but if you start changing things around and treating them like fictional characters with AUs and crack, then surely you now have fictional characters? A vampire Richard III would be fictional, just like Shakespeare on "The Shakespeare Code" was fictional. (That wasn't RPF, was it?)

To me, you're either writing your fantasies about real people, or you're writing fictional characters. Five(ish) Doctors Reboot was about fictional characters, and so was my fic.