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30 Day Fandom Meme Day 13
13 July 2011 05:48 pmDay 13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
I’m always extrapolating from canon – what fanfic doesn’t? - so clearly I’m fine with fanon. That said, I don’t like AUs as the genre’s currently “defined” (that being a loose term). I don’t want to read my spies in Les Miserables or Starsky and Hutch as midshipmen in 17th century England. I don’t buy the general concept that Starsky, or Illya, e.g., would be the Starsky or Illya we know if they had a completely different life – we are as we have lived – so to me AUs are all original fic with original characters. I like the fandoms I like because I like them, not something other than them. This is not a judgment on the quality of AU fics, just a taste preference.
I’m always extrapolating from canon – what fanfic doesn’t? - so clearly I’m fine with fanon. That said, I don’t like AUs as the genre’s currently “defined” (that being a loose term). I don’t want to read my spies in Les Miserables or Starsky and Hutch as midshipmen in 17th century England. I don’t buy the general concept that Starsky, or Illya, e.g., would be the Starsky or Illya we know if they had a completely different life – we are as we have lived – so to me AUs are all original fic with original characters. I like the fandoms I like because I like them, not something other than them. This is not a judgment on the quality of AU fics, just a taste preference.