Blogroll: Narrative Implicatures and the Chewbacca Defense

As remarked before in this journal, the underlying process of the game of "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?" provides some interesting fundamental similarities and dissimilarities to other processes of inquiry: to a detective investigating a mystery, to a scientist developing a theory, to the work of logicians, linguists, and lawyers. So it should be in no way surprising that while going through my favorite blogs, I came across several matters of interest which speak to the philosophical issues at hand in the way we go about our canon-formation (speaking of canon here as a set of "facts" about a fictional and/or actual world derived from a text, rather than as the text itself).

( Language Log, Volokh Conspiracy, and Original Meta )

Dear Sekrit femslash07 Writer:

I know that many of my favorite characters--such as the Potentials--are not universally beloved. If you've ended up with a request asking you to write characters you hate, I'm sorry. Just please remember these are characters I love very much and who are very dear to my heart.

In my profile information you will find a policy for 'thon writers which boils down to: write your story, not the one you think I'll like. If I do like the story you write that's always a bonus, of course, but your main allegiance should always be to your muse.

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OTOH, my femslash07 assignment just happens to just up my alley, and I'm very excited!