Though, actually, having thought about it, if someone found a lost AF manuscript under a bed in which Ginty and Patrick slept together and it wasn't some kind of 'and then the ripple-effect causes grief for all concerned for the remainder of the book' deal, I would be ripping up floorboards desperately looking for the next volume in which it all goes wrong, and ditto if they found a book where Nicola and Patrick get married straight out of school and Oxford.

The one thing I doubt I'd do is shrug, say 'Okay, out with the whole canon, then,' and go find another fandom. So maybe I'm an appropriator after all.