Interestingly, if you make it clear that your RPF isn't true, there's pretty much no way you can successfully be sued for libel, which means that the legality of RPF is actually much clearer than the legality of FPF. To me, it's just another example in which fans tend to believe that fannish products are less legitimate and "naughtier" in some way than published-for-profit texts (even when the for-profit texts are strikingly similar to fannish products).

When someone writes orgy fic featuring Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s men, then I’ll be all over actorfic like white on rice. Especially if they throw Marlowe into the mix as well. Mmmm… Marlowe.

Someone *totally* needs to write that. . .