It’s three in the morning and I can’t sleep. This is in part because I an convinced I have the magic ingredient that will SAVE FANDOM FROM ITSELF.
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It’s three in the morning and I can’t sleep. This is in part because I an convinced I have the magic ingredient that will SAVE FANDOM FROM ITSELF.
It’s a new way to understand stories that are presented in serial, e.g. comic books, movies with sequels spanning decades, long and open-ended book series, that sort of thing.
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I call it “rolling canon” and here’s how it works:
The current vogue is to imagine stories as taking place in discrete dimensions, like a railway with many tracks, some of which split, and some of which never meet.
Rolling canon instead imagines stories as taking place in a contiguous fabric of realities that blend into each other like the colors of a rainbow. Not all realities are equidistant , but neither are they separated by a countable number of discrete intermediate realities.
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