so I was sitting in class and my professor was talking about how stories would change from book to book, way back when, because people would pass their handbound parchment copies around, and have their own scribes write up the bits that they liked into new books, and toss in bits and pieces of other stories they liked
and how there’s a whole thing about how stories and origins are incredibly difficult to track because of this movement, this mouvance (yes it’s french apparently), and it doesn’t just happen in literature, it’s a huge thing in oral culture (yeah, duh) and honestly what I’m getting out of this is
fandom telephone is fucking ancient my dudes
oh, and crossovers have always been REAL fuckin big













