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And it got me thinking about the literary potential of the Internet and the kind of shared artisanal reality we postfurry and fannish types excel in. I like the idea of a character who unjustly gets killed, but then gets to live out a perfectly rich fulfilling life in memes & fanlore---because they meant something to us they didn't to their creators.

Guess I just like the way it would all play with notions of what "canon" means--a topic on which most fandom really NEEDS to be challenged, IMO.

And it also makes me wonder if we might see more of this phenomenon. People taking up characters who got exiled from canon, and letting them live on as a wandering tourist of the Internet. Or even, within a few years, setting up bots from quote databases. Just one more thing to weaken that membrane between stories...

why did it have to be plurality 

@zebratron2084 some might accidentally take this to, uh, extremes

*shoves the fictives under the bed*

*thinks for a moment and pulls them out to hide the factives behind them* >_<

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