[ SECRET POST #3070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3070 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA

It's true that obviously the actual representation remains in canon, and no fanwork can change that.

I think the issue gets muddied when - as you can see from all the discussions below re: headcanons, and any other thread we've had on F!S lately about headcanons in general - significant portions of fandom give more weight and validity to fanon. For a lot of people, fanon and fandom interpretation carries more importance than whatever canon's doing, and sometimes fanon gets percieved as trumping canon completely. In those cases you could make an argument for erasure if say a POC-as-white or gay-as-straight headcanon gains significant traction within a fandom.

It also gives the impression that, regardless of the author/artist's intent, they find something inherently wrong in the original depiction in a potentially offensive way -- i.e. that the minority status is something that requires "fixing." Fans turning characters gay/POC/trans because they see no representation of themselves has a much more positive trajectory than fans turning the very rare examples of those groups back to the majority (of which there are probably x10 the number in the canonical source already).

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that last one's the big one to me.

I'm not going to call anyone out for it or anything, but if your (general you) reaction to a canon is "I really like this story, but you know what would make it better? making the nonwhite characters white" then that's probably worth some side-eyeing. I mean, I fully believe they don't *think* about it in those terms, but that's the point they've arrived at.