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RPF. RPF is an acronym for Real Person Fiction (or Real People Fiction). This includes all fanworks about real people, such as celebrities and historical figures. Fandom categories that are likely to contain RPF on the Archive of Our Own (AO3) include Celebrities & Real People as well as Music & Bands.
I started out writing RPF but the majority of what I wrote was an AU, for example historical AUs where the plot was about them as Korean royalty in the 5th century or a coffeshop AU where they're baristas - the only thing "real" about them is that they are named after real people, and their personality is inspired by whatever persona the ...
For me, RPF is for people who are still alive, or dead in the last 50 years. Everything before is historical fiction (especially if it's about WW1 or WW2), and unless I dig very deep in the person's past, I wouldn't call that a biopic.
The RPF tag is for Real People, aka the actors of fictional characters or IRL events. in this case, since Freen and Becky are not themselves in this fic, and your fic uses fictional characters that they play, so you should not be tagging your fic as RPF.
When tagging on the Archive of Our Own (AO3), the RPF tags should be used for works that don't take place in or involve characters from the fictional universe. What this means is that if your work is about Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, the correct fandom tag is Supernatural RPF, not Supernatural, which is the tag for the fictional universe.
I think everyone agrees that RPF/RPS is a form of fanfic, though why this agreement exists seems less clear. I would guess that it's because (1) It's usually written by fans, who are often writing other kinds of fanfic (2) It's non-commercial (in many respects) and (3) It follows various fanfic conventions that we see in FPF whether that's ...
6 dni temu · RPF, short for Real Person Fiction or Real People Fiction, is fanfiction written about actual people, rather than fictional characters. RPF has been around since at least the late 1960s, growing alongside media fandom in conjunction with stories about fictional characters . RPF has the same variety as FPF.
