Board Thread:Stories/@comment-26186871-20190212134053/@comment-26186871-20190223131555

(Are you aware of the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics?)

(Because that's what basically happens. Both run separately, yet at the same time.)

(That might look like it causes problems, but when you consider that mysteries that didn't have the solution planned out from the start ALSO has this effect until the solution is made, like what happened to Luke's father in Star Wars, it should become clear that doesn't do very much damage. As long as fanfics are compatible with canon, they get along quite well, as it only builds off of what's already there, and doesn't mess with canon itself:That remains the same. They add detail to these possible worlds, after all. The problems only occur once they start CONFLICTING with canon, because by having characters act in ways they naturally wouldn't, creating races that shouldn't exist, or even dropping in an 8th Chaos Emerald [No, I don't mean the Master Emerald] would basically create THAT as one of the possible worlds split from canon. So the canon world gets altered to make the fanfic even be able to happen at all. Which is, of course, a problem.)

(The only time fanfics interact with EACH OTHER is if someone specifically made a fanfic OF a fanfic. I haven't fully gone over how that might work, though, nor whether this is something the PCW would even get involved in. If it violates canon, it still has the same effect on canon, because by affecting the original fanfic to go against canon, the effect then transitions back to the original, since the good fanfiction's been damaged to BECOME like a badfic. Of course the solution is to go into the bad fanfiction causing all of this. This is quite rare, but back in the early days, this unfurtunately wasn't taken into consideration, so the original/damaged fanfiction had been killed off instead, which didn't solve a thing since the badfic then just became an independent fanfic that directly influenced canon. And just destroyed a good fanfiction. That's why you see a lot of old good fanfiction one just end before their ending.. Or even get deleted.. They got killed off!)

(..Fortunately, Management learned their lesson. This doesn't happen anymore.)