voxpoplar OP wrote
Reply to comment by toasthaste in overly annoyed at people posting watsonian responses to my doylist observations by voxpoplar
It's named after the Sherlock Holmes stories which were written by Arthur Conan Doyle and feature John Watson as a narrator. So Watsonian is the in-universe one and Doylist is the out-of-universe one.
toasthaste wrote
oh hell i might actually be able to remember it now, ty :O how have i heard this terminology so much and not heard or realized the origin. i thought doyle and watson were just, like, some Dudes With Opinions
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