#also if youre a member of rpf nation at all i have to recommend you read the princess diarist whether you like star wars or not

[vaperarmand]

okay but which rpf pairing was your gateway into getting invested in rpf itself i would love to know

okay so idk if you have seen this post of mine but it came as the result of me thinking through my long history of rpf behavior in my mind which i will walk you through now. because it definitely came in stages.

like in middle school i dabbled in larry (though i was never really big in 1D fandom spaces) and for SURE read crisscolfer although i couldn't tell you what/where because i feel like all the glee fanfic was sourced from places other than ao3 and i've lost track of all of that now.

in high school i was a big carrie fisher/harrison ford #believer although i never read fanfic for them. so when the tell all memoir the princess diarist came out in 2016 this was huge for me. this is maybe ultimately to blame for my continued rpf engagement because that high was like nothing else. their relationship is also just awesome for rpf purposes because it catches all the major categories: it was toxic, it was an ill-advised fling, there was infidelity involved, both parties were terrible communicators. it was the 70s. anyway.

in college i got majorly invested in gillovny which is also a treasure trove of rpf. made a gillovny timeline for my roommates powerpoint night. etc. i think it truly was my beloved shennant though that fully made me realize that this was a pattern and it's with them that i've like. read/written fic And gotten into the community. it also helps that at the same time shennant macbeth chaos was happening 2 of my closest friends got into a revived bandom rpf thing and a new hockey rpf thing respectively which made me be like oh yeah rpf is just part of my life now. my personality even.