Judging from the responses here, I think perhaps this is a fic that is easier to read if you're not also a writer! Which hadn't occurred to me.

I think being less invested in the characters from that point of view makes the criticism of fandom as a whole easier to take--I can distance myself far more easily from fandom as a reader (there being potentially thousands of anonymous lurky readers in fandom) than it would be if I was participating and putting my ideas and stories out there.

ike watching someone cut open a pair of bodies that look like Mulder and Scully, smiling, saying, "it's okay, look, i made these ones - it's not them."

Excellent simile, very fitting.