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[pensnest]

There's been some meta around lately about whether the highs and lows of RPF fandom are more or less extreme than the highs and lows of FPF.

It seems to me that Real People can break a fan's heart far more comprehensively than fictional ones.

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[ephemera]

Because if it was fiction you would be screaming at the screen / page that it was unrealistic and unbelievable, and writing fic that fixed it, and with reality you just can't do that ...

[pensnest]

Yeah. I mean, this is so utterly astonishing. And then other bits of information start poking up into the scene...

I want my hero back, but even if the circumstances were as close to innocent mistake as they can get—he *killed* someone.

ETA: I also kinda want a fannish community where I can grieve about this, and I don't have one. I suppose the up-side is, no fanfic, because shudder.