[ SECRET POST #2763 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2763 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Creator's Attitudes Toward Their Creations

[lyriel]

"Also are there any commonly used pieces of "writing advice" that you are unsure or even outright disagree with?"

Slightly OT, but I am starting to disagree with the way the term "AU" gets used in fanfic.
Non-canon ships, for example, do not make a story AU, IMO. The idea that *anything* which differs from canon should be labeled AU is awfully stringent and literal-minded. ALL fanfic differs from canon, unless you're literally just transcribing episodes.

"Bob is a 17th-century pirate instead of a plumber" is an AU, "Bob is dating Alice instead of Carol" is not an AU.

I am starting to question the whole concept of "canon." It's all fictional; the only difference is that the canon-creators get paid and have a wider audience. Fic isn't any less "real" than the fictional stories we see on the screen; it's all imaginary, and one imaginary thing isn't somehow more "legit" than another.

What about the fact that an idea could be perfectly canon-compliant at one point in time and then get shot-down by new developments in the canon? Is my Bob/Carol story an AU just because Bob dated Carol for the first five seasons of The Bob Show but now he's married to Alice? Do you see what I mean? One part of a fictional thing isn't any more "real" than another part. Season 1 of a show is not somehow cancelled-out by the events of Season 5.

I don't feel like labeling something AU unless it literally has fantasy/sci-fi themes or a total change of setting. IMO there are some very literal-minded, black-and-white thinkers out there who believe anything that wasn't verified in the most recent episode of canon is somehow "incorrect."