[ SECRET POST #2781 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2781 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Game of Thrones]


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[Kevin Sorbo/Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]


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[Transformers: Prime]


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[Darkchylde]






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Comments

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like non-canon ships. I just don't have much interest in stuff that contradicts or isn't part of canon. I also don't have much interest in AUs, or fics that pretend certain events didn't happen, or fics that veer way outside of the scope of the canon situations. I'm not even a huge fan of backstories or future-fic that aren't fleshed out in canon, unless they're done really well. I like introspection, I suppose, analyzing and explaining and fleshing out what DID happen and what happened offscreen in the missing scenes and time gaps between episodes and seasons, rather than wondering about stuff that didn't happen.

(I may feel differently if I ever get into the fandom for a show while it's airing rather than catching it months or years after it's gone off the air, but I haven't done that yet.)

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same, but then I also don't read fic.

I sometimes think the possibility of certain ships is cute, and there are sometimes I wish canon had been completely rewritten and fixed because of how horrible it got... but I still don't end up indulging theories a lot and I'd rather just discuss what we were presented.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[morieris]

+1

The characters are in that setting and act the way they do. If you're going to change that or change their personality or change their upbringing, what's the point of it still being THOSE characters?

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Playing in multifandom RPs gave me a new appreciation for how important setting is at defining characters and making them unique. After a while a lot of the characters in the RP began to feel interchangeable with each other, and it wasn't because they were OOC. It was because they had similar personalities, so put them all in the same setting and situation for an RP and of course they're all going to react to it in similar ways. Without the different canons to shape them, they all become basically the same character.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

So... You only like canon?

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but I'm guessing it's more that they prefer pairings that are canon or at least not inconsistent WITH canon. I feel the same way, so I hear them, although sometimes even in canon you really never know what to expect. For instance, anything Joss Whedon would be really hard to only canon ship.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I like plotty "gen" fic (for lack of a better word). I like plot-driven fic that could have been an actual episode, if we're talking about TV. Including a full plot, characters, supporting characters.

Yeah, can we have more of that?

[(Anonymous)]

If I'm a fan of a series, and I go looking for fic of the series, why would I want subversions of the series over something like the series?

I get why people write it, but I find it hard to care about your weird ships.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

That's interesting. I'm the exact opposite. I see canon as a jumping-off point, and nothing more. I have no interest in seeing "more of the same." I want fanfic to show me the things that canon can't or won't show me. A fic that adheres closely to canon does nothing for me.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt
I actually like "what canon won't show me" best too, but more of a "jumping IN" rather than jumping OFF, if that makes sense. I like the little conversations, fallout of big events, the stuff that happened between scenes or behind the scenes, implications and reactions and consequences that couldn't fit into the actual episodes because they just don't work with the way the show is written or can't fit into a 45 minute story. All the stuff that happened offscreen. But what interests me about it most is how it fits with and enhances what's on screen, and the characters as I know them. I'm not super interested in changing canon, even when really dumb things happen in canon I'd rather try to get it to make sense rather than change it.