Cara ellisonit’s very irritating to me how everyone talks about the ‘marvelfication’ of things when the marvel universe takes a thousands of years old template such as Chinese or Celtic pantheonic parallel storytelling mythologies and just lifts a bunch of heroes from it
Ian Thomas@cara And fanboy arguments about canon, gatekeeping, disapproval of new writers, and fan fiction is very much the history of religious schisms. :-)
Carl Muckenhoupt@wildwinter @cara Indeed, if I understand correctly the word "canon" was adopted by fans in recognition of this.
@CarlMuckenhoupt @cara Oh, I guess so - that hadn't occurred to me!
@CarlMuckenhoupt @cara Hang on though, I think referring to the Shakespeare canon (for example) is older than modern fandom.
I may be wrong!
@wildwinter @cara Hm. Wikipedia says the first use of the word for non-religious texts was for Sherlock Holmes (which totally counts as a modern fandom in my book). But it also slaps a "[citation needed" on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(fiction)
