Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150728223355/@comment-24891101-20150820072447

Doylistic and Watsonian are terms derived from Sherlock Holmes, and are basically another way of saying out-of-universe and in-universe, based in the central conceit of that fiction. It has some degree of currency online, notably in the form of a TvT article.

Ghost: I'm still not sure why you needed the plural, since there's only one of him.