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* [http://www.peterchimaera.com/doom.html Exhibit A] vs. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/Doom_Repercussions_of_Evil_Mark_II Exhibit B]
* [http://www.peterchimaera.com/doom.html Exhibit A] vs. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/Doom_Repercussions_of_Evil_Mark_II Exhibit B]
* [http://www.chick.com/READING/TRACTS/0046/0046_01.ASP Exhibit C] vs. [http://blog.fantasyheartbreaker.com/2010/04/21/whatever-happened-to-elfstar/ Exhibit D]
* [http://www.chick.com/READING/TRACTS/0046/0046_01.ASP Exhibit C] vs. [http://blog.fantasyheartbreaker.com/2010/04/21/whatever-happened-to-elfstar/ Exhibit D]
* [[My Little Pony|Exhibit E]] vs. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Exhibit F]].
* [[My Little Pony|Exhibit E]] vs. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Exhibit F]].
* [[Twilight (Literature)|Exhibit G]] vs. [[Luminosity (Fanfic)|Exhibit H]].
* [[Twilight (novel)|Exhibit G]] vs. [[Luminosity|Exhibit H]].
* [[Half Life Full Life Consequences (Fanfic)|Exhibit I]] vs. [http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit J]
* [[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|Exhibit I]] vs. [http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit J]


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Revision as of 20:04, 9 April 2014

All fiction is equally real.

That is to say, all fiction is equally unreal. Fiction, by its very definition, is make-believe. Made up. Imagined.

From the biggest summer blockbuster movie, to the most obscure novel buried at the bottom of a bargain bin, to the crappiest Fanfic, to the smallest passing idea of a story in a random person's mind, all fiction is equally real.

Fiction may vary in a lot of ways, specifically in genre, quality, presentation, and cultural significance. However, the ideas underneath it all are equal in gravity. They are all exactly 0% real.

Fans of a show can take comfort in the fact that, while something happened on the show they don't like, they could invent an alternate continuity inside of their mind, and it would be equally as real. After all, it's just television.

This principle could be said to be the source of all Fan Fiction, or, to an extent, the source of all fiction; the idea to aspire to significance in writing is what drives people to use tropes to build their own work.

The Fiction Identity Postulate can be proved by illustrating that, when it comes to story concepts, all ideas have the potential to be good. Sometimes it takes a little tweaking, other times it may take serious revamping and changing of the genre, quality, and presentation, but beneath every pile of crap is something pretty if you are willing to dig through it.

Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing must exist; this makes all fiction 100% real. Nightmare Fuel on Sugar Wiki? What?

See also All Myths Are True. Compare Absolutely Happened, Mutually Fictional, Recursive Canon.

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