anon

'Anonymous', shortened — the name every poster had on a board without names, and therefore the address for anyone: 'anon, are you okay?' The record's entry for the pronoun of the nameless, which became a way of speaking to a stranger with care.

What officially happened in a story — canon — as opposed to headcanon, fanon, and what should have happened, from Sherlock Holmes societies into every fandom, and the record's entry for the word that has caused more arguments than any plot.

Something so widely believed by fans that it feels official and is not — fanon — as the collective headcanon, and the record's entry for the facts that everyone knows and nobody wrote. Half of what anyone knows about any character is fanon.

A necessary bad experience that makes you who you are, from a film about multiverse plot logic. Used to excuse not warning a friend about a haircut.

A rock arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon in D written by JerryC, which became famous through a cover by a masked bedroom guitarist known as funtwo and then through hundreds of others. The record's entry for the first great YouTube guitar duel, fought entirely by people facing a webcam alone.

Something you have decided is true about a story that the story never said. The word that made private reading a public position.