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1	''All fiction is equally real.''
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3	That is to say, all fiction is equally unreal. Fiction, by its very definition, is make-believe. Made up. Imagined.
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5	From the biggest summer blockbuster movie, to the most obscure novel buried at the bottom of a bargain bin, to the crappiest FanFic, to the smallest passing idea of a story in a random person's mind, all fiction is equally real.
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7	Fiction may vary in a lot of ways, specifically in genre, quality, presentation, and cultural significance. However, the ''ideas'' underneath it all are equal in gravity. They are all exactly 0% real.
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9	Fans of a show can take comfort in the fact that, while 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]].
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11	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 [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools what drives people to use tropes]] to build their own work.
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13	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 [[SturgeonsLaw beneath every pile of crap is something pretty if you are willing to dig through it]].
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15	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 "TheWorldAsMyth".
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17	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 MST3KMantra is an invocation of this principle to dispel the frustration created by FridgeLogic.
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