You should write book reviews! All the relevant info here was so concisely and amusingly stated.
The only thing I have to say re: rpf is yes, it is rpf. I think RPF as a genre is defined by the names involved. Not for any objective reason, but because that is the way people use the term. In this case I think that's a valid reason for defining it that way.
Interestingly, some people use RPF to mean heightened fantasy. Kita's trailer series, for instance, was more cracktastical and wish-fulfillment than any of her original fiction that I've seen. Same goes for a lot of other RPF--it's the chance to go straight to kink-hitting, without bothering about staying true to the characters. (Stories like Kita's remain internally true to characters, and are of an excellent writing quality.) Something about using the names and maybe "sense" of the people seems more liberating than complete originality or fanfiction.
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The only thing I have to say re: rpf is yes, it is rpf. I think RPF as a genre is defined by the names involved. Not for any objective reason, but because that is the way people use the term. In this case I think that's a valid reason for defining it that way.
Interestingly, some people use RPF to mean heightened fantasy. Kita's trailer series, for instance, was more cracktastical and wish-fulfillment than any of her original fiction that I've seen. Same goes for a lot of other RPF--it's the chance to go straight to kink-hitting, without bothering about staying true to the characters. (Stories like Kita's remain internally true to characters, and are of an excellent writing quality.) Something about using the names and maybe "sense" of the people seems more liberating than complete originality or fanfiction.