I don't think that lumping everything in one category makes that category meaningless, but I do think that it oversimplifies and tries to make connections between two things which are either tenuous or non - existent. I mean, you could say that everything anybody does creatively is driven by a buried sex drive, but that would be ignoring a whole range of possible motivations for the creative act, in my opinion.
Also, I don't think RPF has a source text in the same way other media fandoms do. Those fandoms operate of sources that were created by one or more people as explicitly fictional, while RPF builds off real life events to a greater or lesser extent.
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Date: 2008-02-23 07:12 pm (UTC)Also, I don't think RPF has a source text in the same way other media fandoms do. Those fandoms operate of sources that were created by one or more people as explicitly fictional, while RPF builds off real life events to a greater or lesser extent.