(The question at the centre of RPF is) “what if?” This question is the question asked by each one of these Hiddleston fans arguing that he should be left some space. What if a man performed six nights a week in a highly emotional play and was then confronted, night after night, by fans outside the stage door, each one of them looking for a piece of him? What might he want, this man? And the answer is fanfiction.
MARTIN, ANNA (2014). WRITING THE STAR. STARDOM, FANDOM AND REAL PERSON FANFICTION
The fiction of stars and fans as real people