We tend to react with a kind of emotional intensity to stories (whether those stories are books, TV shows, films, games, music, or the shared story which is RPF). Sometimes this is deeply personal ('this story really speaks to me'), or sometimes it is a more distant admiration of the narrative architecture of the story (although of course people outside fandom can have these kinds of reactions as well). What is common, though, is a sense that the story isn't over when the page is closed or the credits roll, that it's not contained by whatever the original creator(s) chose to show us — that it's only over when we stop being haunted by it and it leaves our mind.
That's a really beautiful way of putting it -- I love it.
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That's a really beautiful way of putting it -- I love it.