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Death of the author

A term describing the idea of how a viewer should have the freedom to interpretate any piece of artistic work, for better or worse:

For example: Movies, webcomics, videogames, songs, paintings, and any other diverse piece of fiction.

Contrary to popular belief, this idea is neither a positive nor negative idea, but still, it can be use for the creative expresion and the opportunity to make new and personal creations.

For example: Giving a story to a background character, making a comedic parody of a gritty-horror story, Making an imaginative non-official sequel or prequel...

And as said before, this works of fanfiction can be used for both great good and evil: Anybody can make a beutifull piece of art to detone their intrepretation of any work, or by the bad side, they can make porn of it. (Yes, porn is bad.)
Dude: I recently watched this very cool and scary movie, but sadly, my favorite protagonist died at the end, so i will just ret-con that by making the killer dumb and my protagonist more cooler.
Guy: Wtf?! You can't do that you baby pussy boy! You can't just aply the Death of the author in that situation! BE SAD! QUIT HAVING FUN! STOP THINKING AND JUST ACCEPT HOW MISERABLE EVERYTHING IS!
Dude: Fuck you you can't tell me what to do! *Kills the guy epic style.*
by Fgyjt December 28, 2023
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Coup Of The Author

When an audience either applies 'Death of the Author' or goes against the personal desires of said author. Often while this person, group or company is still alive.
This can include 'new cannon' being ignored, 'fan cannon', copying a game they want to remove, or adding mods more entertaining than dlcs, etc.
"Hey where can I get that horror game P.T?"
"Oh, they pulled that off the shelves for some reason. Pretty stupid if you ask me, its a great game"
"Really?"
"Yeah, luckily a bunch of people just copied the data and now spread it for free, real Coup of The Author."
by vertgeburger November 3, 2022
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Author

That author wrote about lil bitch ass shit.
by borf666 March 28, 2019
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Author-Cast

Written with a hyphen, the phrase author-cast refers to the author's equivalent of a fancast. It is the practice of casting celebrities as characters in your book. Originated in the fanfic-writing community and is very prevalent on Wattpad. However, there is still an issue with representation in author-casts.
"Hey, I just finished my author-cast, want to see?"
"Oh, cool! You have Idris Elba casted as the dad!"
"Yeah, he looks just like how I imagined him!"
by atharin May 21, 2022
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Authorness

Adj: A word describing how someone is the best writer you have ever seen, even better than a famous one. They can write about anything, even thigns they don't like to write about, and make it sound like the bet thing since white bread.
Dude that girl has a lot of authorness!
by songstobesung November 8, 2010
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Potato Transit Authority

A roblox transit group that solidify their stans of trains, and distorted emojis with crying laughing and angry faces mashed together.

These group members tend to also laugh about the "bag it up meme", a meme that is about a convenience store cashier getting rude encounters with several people, and in return humiliate them by ruining their order.
Yo, lets play Potato Transit Authority Callaghan

No, I play on mobile, how about fifth avenue?

Fuck you.
by him872 June 21, 2023
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Testing The Authority

A saying to describe a member trying to get a rise out of a staff member. This is a common saying for either Discord Admins or admins on any other platform.
Some dude in a discord server I am in posted a meme in general chat and was banned because he was testing the authority of the admins.
by xx_memes_xx September 20, 2022
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