I didn't even know Mitchell had a brother, which makes me feel distinctly less creepy for the amount of other stuff I know about him.
My problem with RPF is that I adore fandoms that let me do shedloads of research. With fictional fandoms, this is fine. Learning German so I don't have to rely on dodgy subtitles? Great! Going to Syria and Jordan to follow TE Lawrence's travels? Nothing wrong with that!
However, knowing the village where Brooker grew up? Creepy. As. Fuck. (Which is why I have an anonymeme prompt currently stalled.)
But I think my issue with a Huq-less AU is how often women get ignored/sidelined in fanfic and I don't especially want to do that. But, equally, I don't want to write Brooker/Huq because OMFG WAY TOO CREEPY EURGH. And I'd probably feel equally EURGH, with bonus inclination to pull all my fanfic offline, if Brooker and Mitchell were engaged.
(When I was in Top Gear fandom, I wrote in a universe in which their personas on the show were actually 100% totally real and things accidentally caught fire all the time and there was no such thing as health & safety. This meant that, because Jeremy and Richard had both mentioned their wives, they were married. However, James was single because, at that point, he hadn't mentioned his girlfriend. And the Stig was an alien. Probably with tentacles. On his face.)
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My problem with RPF is that I adore fandoms that let me do shedloads of research. With fictional fandoms, this is fine. Learning German so I don't have to rely on dodgy subtitles? Great! Going to Syria and Jordan to follow TE Lawrence's travels? Nothing wrong with that!
However, knowing the village where Brooker grew up? Creepy. As. Fuck. (Which is why I have an anonymeme prompt currently stalled.)
But I think my issue with a Huq-less AU is how often women get ignored/sidelined in fanfic and I don't especially want to do that. But, equally, I don't want to write Brooker/Huq because OMFG WAY TOO CREEPY EURGH. And I'd probably feel equally EURGH, with bonus inclination to pull all my fanfic offline, if Brooker and Mitchell were engaged.
(When I was in Top Gear fandom, I wrote in a universe in which their personas on the show were actually 100% totally real and things accidentally caught fire all the time and there was no such thing as health & safety. This meant that, because Jeremy and Richard had both mentioned their wives, they were married. However, James was single because, at that point, he hadn't mentioned his girlfriend. And the Stig was an alien. Probably with tentacles. On his face.)
Oh, RPF, why are you so complicated?