Meta: Kink and Literature Mentalities in Fanfic

dragonscholar's interest in McFanfics explored over at fanthropology and hearsawho's post discussing the use of warning labels, here have both made me think, and the thoughts have been becoming mixey. Synthesis is threatening to occur. (Much of this is cannibalized from my comments to hearsawho's post.)

It struck me that there were two different mentalities functioning in the debates, and think these mentalities frame the way we approach fanfiction in general.

( Read more over at fanthropology. )