I actually remember saying in a previous debate on this topic, something like: "So how werid am I, that one of the main motivations I have to get my original fiction setting out and published into the world is so I can see what kind of fanfic gets written for it?"

It's so nice that there's someone else who kinda groks that. It's not that much of a leap when you consider that yes, at its core, Fanfic is an expression of love.