I’ve been meaning to write something about SHADOW UNIT for absolutely ages — about SHADOW UNIT itself, but also about the attitude expressed in the following comment found in a BoingBoing thread about SHADOW UNIT:

Instead of reading/watching something awesome and fanning over it, we see the fandom first. The fandom then defines and expresses the original material it’s about–the show that doesn’t actually exist.

The origin of SHADOW UNIT is in Elizabeth Bear encouraging a few friends to produce