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I know better. I do. I just want to read stories, and occasionally write them. Entertainment, and this is not entertaining.
Bitching about it, or reading other people bitch about it, never makes me feel better. All it does is make my already-dodgy writing crawl into a hole and die. Of course, maybe that's just as well.
I have to wonder if all open-canon fandoms are like this. It's been years since I followed a community that wasn't fic-only. You know that disclaimer that we're all supposed to put on our fic, that these are not our characters? I'm hugely uncomfortable with anyone saying, "You can neglect or twist these elements of canon to tell your story, but not those." Maybe the fact that comic canon is sort of wobbly to begin with makes people hold on even more fiercely to their One True Characterization.
Bitching about it, or reading other people bitch about it, never makes me feel better. All it does is make my already-dodgy writing crawl into a hole and die. Of course, maybe that's just as well.
I have to wonder if all open-canon fandoms are like this. It's been years since I followed a community that wasn't fic-only. You know that disclaimer that we're all supposed to put on our fic, that these are not our characters? I'm hugely uncomfortable with anyone saying, "You can neglect or twist these elements of canon to tell your story, but not those." Maybe the fact that comic canon is sort of wobbly to begin with makes people hold on even more fiercely to their One True Characterization.
