A continuation of some stuff brought up in the comments of my last post

[drakyndra]

Stupid thing still has 20% to go

I am generally fine with RPF. I have, one or two times, even recced it to others. But I always go for fics in which there is a clear line drawn between the fantasy and the reality. The ones in which the RP ship is clearly drawn from who they play - your lead example is the Dan/Emma lot - they are the ones that I don't really go for. The fantasy/reality line gets a little too blurred for my liking.

So the Tennant/Piper RP shipping hasn't really been my thing. They have had a very close friendship (described at one point as sibling-like), and both have reasonably long-term significant others. If you make it crack fantasy, great, I'll read it. But seriously shipping it is something I just don't get.

And it's not something I generally read RPF for. I generally just skim past it when it shows up on my flist. But someone made a reference to the latest chapter of someone's Tennant/Piper epic, and I had to see for myself.

And thus we have... Sophia Myles getting hit by a car. And fanbrats squeeing over the possibility of her death, in order to preserve their cute happily ever after.

I don't think anything in fandom has sickened me so much in a long, long time.

Comments

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

As the comments here show - and those on tennant_love, and the poll results there, as well - you are far from alone in that opinion. And the production team worries are something that have defintey crossed my mind. I mean, we know for a fact people involved with the pay a certain amount of attention to LJ (like when it showed up on that Confidential...), so the sheer lack of thought in this particular fic boggled me completely.

[mydwynter.livejournal.com]

I'm about a week behind on reading my friend's page, so I hadn't even gotten to those posts. So let me just give a great big sigh of relief and be happy that the community seems, on the whole, to be full of reasonable people. Thanks for pointing that out.