9 Mar
2001
9 Mar
'01
12:49 p.m.
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.
Mistral
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