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The Fiction Identity Postulate can be proved by illustrating that, when it comes to story concepts, '''all ideas have the potential to be good'''. Sometimes all it takes is a little tweaking, other times it may take serious revamping and changing of the quality, genre, presentation, audience targeting - in short, all the aspects of the work that exist entirely in ''our'' reality - but beneath every pile of crap is something pretty if you are willing to dig through it.

The Fiction Identity Postulate can be proved by illustrating that, when it comes to story concepts, '''all ideas have the potential to be good'''. Sometimes it takes a little tweaking, other times it may take serious revamping and changing of the quality, genre, presentation, audience targeting - in short, all the aspects of the work that exist entirely in ''our'' reality - but beneath every pile of crap is something pretty if you are willing to dig through it.

See also AllMythsAreTrue. Compare MutuallyFictional, RecursiveCanon. Compare and contrast SturgeonsLaw, which is more an analysis of the results than a critique of the foundations.

The Fiction Identity Postulate can be proved by illustrating that, when it comes to story concepts, '''all ideas have the potential to be good'''. Sometimes it takes a little tweaking, other times it may take serious revamping and changing of the genre, quality, and presentation, but beneath every pile of crap is something pretty if you are willing to dig through it.

See also AllMythsAreTrue. Compare MutuallyFictional, RecursiveCanon. Compare and contrast SturgeonsLaw, which is more an analysis of the results than a critique of the foundations.
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* [[http://www.peterchimaera.com/doom.html Exhibit A]] vs. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/Doom_Repercussions_of_Evil_Mark_II Exhibit B]]
* [[http://www.chick.com/READING/TRACTS/0046/0046_01.ASP Exhibit C]] vs. [[http://blog.fantasyheartbreaker.com/2010/04/21/whatever-happened-to-elfstar/ Exhibit D]]
* [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Exhibit E]] vs. [[FanFic/{{Luminosity}} Exhibit F]].
* [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Exhibit G]] vs. [[http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit H]]

This principle could be said to be the source of all FanFiction, or, to an extent, the source of all fiction; the idea to aspire to significance in writing is [[TropesAreNotBad what drives people to use tropes]] to build their own work.

Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing [[DaydreamBeliever must exist;]] this makes all fiction 100% real. We call this explanation "AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere".

* [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Exhibit G]] vs. [[http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit H]]
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See also AllMythsAreTrue. Compare AbsolutelyHappened, MutuallyFictional, RecursiveCanon. Compare and contrast SturgeonsLaw, which is more an analysis of the results than a critique of the foundations.

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Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing [[DaydreamBeliever must exist;]] this makes all fiction 100% real. NightmareFuel on SugarWiki? [[{{Bokurano}} What]][[TheDraka 's]] [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet th]][[CthulhuMythos at]][[H2G2/MostlyHarmless ?]]

* [[MyLittlePony Exhibit E]] vs. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Exhibit F]].
* [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Exhibit G]] vs. [[FanFic/{{Luminosity}} Exhibit H]].
* [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Exhibit I]] vs. [[http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit J]]

See also AllMythsAreTrue. Compare AbsolutelyHappened, MutuallyFictional, RecursiveCanon.

Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing [[DaydreamBeliever must exist;]] this makes all fiction 100% real. NightmareFuel on SugarWiki? [[{{Bokurano}} What]][[TheDraka 's]] [[NightmareOnElmStreet th]][[CthulhuMythos at]][[H2G2/MostlyHarmless ?]]

Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing [[DaydreamBeliever must exist;]] this makes all fiction 100% real. NightmareFuel on SugarWiki? [[{{Bokurano}} What]][[TheDraka 's]] [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} th]][[CthulhuMythos at]][[ItsAGoodLife ?]]

Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing [[DaydreamBeliever must exist;]] this makes all fiction 100% real. NightmareFuel on SugarWiki? What?

* [[FanFic/Half-LifeFullLifeConsequenses Exhibit I]] vs. [[http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit J]]

* [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequenses Exhibit I]] vs. [[http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit J]]

Fans of a show can take comfort in the fact that, while [[{{Jossed}} something happened on the show they don't like]], they could invent an [[FanonDiscontinuity alternate continuity inside of their mind]], and it would be [[UpTheRealRabbitHole equally as real]]. After all, it's [[MST3KMantra just television]].

* [[MyLittlePony Exhibit E]] vs. [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Exhibit F]].

Fans of a show can take comfort in the fact that, while [[{{Jossed}} something happened on the show they don't like]], they could invent an [[DisContinuity alternate continuity]] [[{{Fanon}} inside of their mind]], and it would be [[UpTheRealRabbitHole equally as real]]. After all, it's [[MST3KMantra just television]].

* [[http://www.peterchimaera.com/doom.html Exhibit A]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/Doom_Repercussions_of_Evil_Mark_II Exhibit B]]
* [[http://www.chick.com/READING/TRACTS/0046/0046_01.ASP Exhibit C]]
* [[http://blog.fantasyheartbreaker.com/2010/04/21/whatever-happened-to-elfstar/ Exhibit D]]

Fans of a show can take comfort in the fact that, while [[{{Jossed}} something happened on the show they don't like]], they could invent an alternate continuity inside of their mind, and it would be equally as real. After all, it's [[MST3KMantra just television]].

See also AbsolutelyHappened, AllMythsAreTrue. Compare MutuallyFictional.

Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing must exist; this makes all fiction 100% real. NightmareFuel on SugarWiki? What?

See also AllMythsAreTrue. Compare AbsolutelyHappened, MutuallyFictional.

See also AllMythsAreTrue.