Mistral wrote:
Neil Faulkner wrote:
That's what it all comes down to - emotional investment. Fans talk about 'my Avon' or 'my Cally' in explicitly proprietorial ways.
Hm. I always thought that was a way of avoiding arguments, rather than possessiveness - an easy way to say 'this is what I think, what happens in my personal canon, YMMV' with a lowered risk of being taken as rude or confrontational.
Yeah, I agree with Mistral here. I think that's *exactly* what that's meant to convey, and, in fact, I almost mentioned it in my "Approach #1" vs. "Appraoch #2" post. It's a signal that the poster is in Approach #2, I think, and that she's talking about the Avon or Cally that exists *in her own head*. And it's a compact, yet fairly explicit, way of acknowledging the subjectivity of that. ("My Avon" is not "your Avon.")
Leastways, that's what I mean when *I* use it.
(Which is not to say that I don't think Neil had some good points in the rest of that post, btw.)