... was that book "Twilight"? ^-^" But yeah, I know what you're talking about, some characters are just too polished to seem real, even with the leeway we give fictional characters. If it's too much than we lose interest.

Nope, I still have it every time I'm going over to AO3. But I can still search over the tags of the FFs themselves, so I'm getting by.

Now now, that's enrichment, not ruin ;)