We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon!

The Purple Man (David Tennant) torments Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) by informing her that her whole TV show is no longer “canon” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe…

Science fiction and fantasy fans love to argue about canon — both meanings of the word. Which stories in a fictional universe really "happened"? Which stories deserve to be enshrined as the best of the genre? We don't think either of those things is worth yelling about! Also, did you know that tsunamis can happen...

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Aggeliki Barberopoulou at USC and Google Scholar

This blog post by John Scalzi explains why “the canon” is silly

The notion of a literary canon in general first gets its crudest expressions in the mid 18th century

Alan Moore famously wrote “this is an imaginary story… aren’t they all?”