I think I just differentiate between stuff that's got real fannish significance/appeal and stuff that I consider to be... well, wanky, you know, completely personal rather than fannish in focus. There isn't that vital link to the text at the forefront but rather a vital link to the person's own fantasy space-- which is fine and dandy, but irrelevant to -me- as a fan of something -other- than their fantasy space.
But isn't it hard to sometimes tell the difference? I mean, that's why I don't tend to take as much notice when somebody is just into their own thing that I am when somebody wants to make their own thing canon. Like, by arguing that whatever fanon cliche they like is actually canon either because they've decided it is or because it's not the dominant fanon one. I mean, like, on a different note, there are plenty of things that you've said you need to see in a fic to make it worthwhile and about canon and whatever, that on the other hand I'm glad that I'm not seeing because it doesn't seem like canon to me at all. It's not like it's something I don't think should be written, because there's nothing that really falls under that category, but I either wouldn't want to read it or wouldn't want it given the label of IC or canonical or whatever, you know what I mean? It's like everytime one person says something is IC there's someone else saying, "WTF?" Sometimes it's more obvious who's wrong, but not always.
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Date: 2005-11-10 07:21 pm (UTC)But isn't it hard to sometimes tell the difference? I mean, that's why I don't tend to take as much notice when somebody is just into their own thing that I am when somebody wants to make their own thing canon. Like, by arguing that whatever fanon cliche they like is actually canon either because they've decided it is or because it's not the dominant fanon one. I mean, like, on a different note, there are plenty of things that you've said you need to see in a fic to make it worthwhile and about canon and whatever, that on the other hand I'm glad that I'm not seeing because it doesn't seem like canon to me at all. It's not like it's something I don't think should be written, because there's nothing that really falls under that category, but I either wouldn't want to read it or wouldn't want it given the label of IC or canonical or whatever, you know what I mean? It's like everytime one person says something is IC there's someone else saying, "WTF?" Sometimes it's more obvious who's wrong, but not always.