Well, that's the thing - RPF stands for Real Person Fiction not Real Person Facts. It's a difficult line to draw, especially when you didn't just write your own cracky versions of some actors, but Peter Davison's cracky versions of some actors, but it's still fundamentally RPF, at least in terms of how AO3 works.
Any historical fiction I wrote and posted there would be RPF, no matter how fantastic. Cracky RPF is just cracky RPF, not a different category, just the same as if someone wrote cracky or OOC DW fic. It might not be something you'd want to read, but it'd still just be DW fanfic. If I wrote fic for someone else's DW fanfic, it'd just come under DW (unless a lot of people all wrote fanfic for that fanfic, in which case it might eventually get made a sub-fandom under DW). Ditto all those coffee shop/zombie apocalypse/high school aus.
Where the line does blur is that if I was writing fic for someone else's historical novel (their RPF!), I would be in the books & lit category, though most of the characters in AO3 terms are just the RPF version shared between all such fictional fandoms (as indeed is Shakespeare in DW - he's just the RPF Shakespeare tag shared with DW, so yes, in AO3 terms, that is RPF), although sometimes there are disambiguated versions (subtagged to the RPF character) if the wrangler feels there's reason enough. So it isn't straight forward with Five(ish) Doctors, I agree, because you yourself are writing fic for a fictional thing - but the fictional thing itself was unquestionably RPF (again, at least in archive terms). (Episodes would be similarly blurry, but with only one 'real/not real' character, it probably falls into TV Shows. Whether or not they just use the normal RPF Matt tag, or a disambigged one, I don't know. But it could be either.)
So, I'm just saying, if you're feeling frustrated about that, but the wrangler's decided against it, you might get somewhere with a request for it to be its own sub-fandom under DW RPF (possibly with its own disambiguated characters), so at least you could see it on the fandoms list & not have to wade through any DW RPF that you don't want to see to get to it. Even if you'll always rather it wasn't in RPF at all!
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Date: 2015-01-07 08:56 am (UTC)Any historical fiction I wrote and posted there would be RPF, no matter how fantastic. Cracky RPF is just cracky RPF, not a different category, just the same as if someone wrote cracky or OOC DW fic. It might not be something you'd want to read, but it'd still just be DW fanfic. If I wrote fic for someone else's DW fanfic, it'd just come under DW (unless a lot of people all wrote fanfic for that fanfic, in which case it might eventually get made a sub-fandom under DW). Ditto all those coffee shop/zombie apocalypse/high school aus.
Where the line does blur is that if I was writing fic for someone else's historical novel (their RPF!), I would be in the books & lit category, though most of the characters in AO3 terms are just the RPF version shared between all such fictional fandoms (as indeed is Shakespeare in DW - he's just the RPF Shakespeare tag shared with DW, so yes, in AO3 terms, that is RPF), although sometimes there are disambiguated versions (subtagged to the RPF character) if the wrangler feels there's reason enough. So it isn't straight forward with Five(ish) Doctors, I agree, because you yourself are writing fic for a fictional thing - but the fictional thing itself was unquestionably RPF (again, at least in archive terms). (Episodes would be similarly blurry, but with only one 'real/not real' character, it probably falls into TV Shows. Whether or not they just use the normal RPF Matt tag, or a disambigged one, I don't know. But it could be either.)
So, I'm just saying, if you're feeling frustrated about that, but the wrangler's decided against it, you might get somewhere with a request for it to be its own sub-fandom under DW RPF (possibly with its own disambiguated characters), so at least you could see it on the fandoms list & not have to wade through any DW RPF that you don't want to see to get to it. Even if you'll always rather it wasn't in RPF at all!