lunabee34

replying to glossing: but even if there were a universally agreed-upon definition of AUs, and even if we were talking only about non-AU fic, the way that people see canon and especially characterization is so very different that there's no single thing called canon that can be nailed down!

It just occurred to me that in a sense profic is like RPF: i.e., the "canon" is something like "living in suburban Michigan in the 1970s." There are also a lot of genres where the tropes are so well-established that they might as well have episode numbers--e.g., fantasy trilogies or chicklit or ladlit or cozy detective stories.