User blog comment:Curious Poker Chip/Let Me Just Say.../@comment-31563773-20190902174431

If you want an explanation of the joke, the punchline is the fandom itself. If you've read enough stories that are out there, a good deal of them involve Lincoln dying in some way or getting badly injured; and barring a few, most of them are badly written stories. And by that, I mean the summary looks good, but the writer unfortunately can't execute it in a way that keeps a majority of the audience tuned in.

Now, with that in mind, I can see why Positron's joke is funny; and not many would understand the underlying dark humor behind it if they don't know how messed up this fandom is. I'd need a whole filing cabinet to catalog all the fics I've seen that have Lincoln dying in some way; most of them being around NSL.