I certainly took my first "Pros" story as if it was an original fiction. It was so for me. However I was in a "fanfic" turn of mind; I mean, I knew I would find there some basic elements that, for me, are at the core of fanfiction (and very rarely found in the mainstream literature), that is to say: action, friendship, partners, mainly male characters (and only very minor female characters) and, principally, a strong focus put on the partners' relationship (would the story be slash or gen).

Outside fanfiction, I don't read fiction at all (with the rare exceptions of a few classic works or detective novels) necause I know in advance I will be repelled by the characters most readers seem to appreciate in the current literary trends.