Spates of jargon

[antennapedia]

I have no joke here. I just like saying "spate". Spate spate spate.

Home sick again today. It’s the flu, or something like it, because I was running a fever of 100F last night. Uncool, particularly because I got the flu shot this year for the first time ever. It should at least have the good grace to immunize me against something. But I read that

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[antennapedia]

For most fandoms, there's no point separating the book-canon fic from the movie-canon fic. If you're writing for "Howl's Moving Castle", say, you're in a small enough fandom that you don't want any separation. If it matters to a specific fic, tags are the way to go.

For larger more fragmented canons, the solution is naming, which fandom already does. And I would just run with how fandom disambiguates the variations. (Heh, I got to say "disambiguate".) For the Holmes example:

Sherlock Holmes (original)
Sherlock Holmes (RDJ)
Sherlock (BBC 2011)
Elementary

Or perhaps there's an umbrella fandom "Sherlock Holmes" and all this stuff is underneath? But I don't think that reflects how most fans interact with it. The fans of Elementary are more likely to fire air rifles at the wax busts of fans of Sherlock than engage in a happy discussion of how fortunate we are to have three awesome Holmes adaptations in progress at once. Kids these days. Get off my lawn.

Whereas, with Doctor Who, I'd just ditch the concept of separate fandoms and lump them all into one happy 50-year canon with tags to help people who are fans of the audio adventures to find fic about those specifically.

[littleotter73]

Yeah, that's sort of where I was heading. The fandoms need to be properly defined. God forbid the streams cross! I can't even begin to fathom the flame wars between Sherlock and Elementary And yay for disambiguate! :)

With Doctor Who, it's a matter of defining the Doctor really and you can do that by character: Six, Three, Nine, Eleven, etc. No need to have Doctor Who (Classic) and Doctor Who, or whatever. Agreed! :)