[ SECRET POST #3143 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3143 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[cbrachyrhynchos]

The concept of "canon" was originally a joke and should be considered that way.

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Also, your interpretation of a character is not a social justice issue.

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Agreedo

I think it's often a fun joke, but it's absolutely best taken as a joke

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

It was? How old is "canon" being a joke concept, because I'm pretty old as far as fandom goes and I've never heard that one before.

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Early Sherlock Holmes fandom, who pointed out that trying to reconcile all of Sir Doyle's various inconsistencies was rather like reconciling the entire Bible.

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

That's not CANON, that's CONAN. Entirely different subset. ;)

(Sorry.)

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

So fuck consistency, you can now declare anything you want okay.

Re: Unpopular or Controversial Fandom Opinions

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Authors change their minds, make mistakes, or just change over time. They're allowed to do that. It doesn't mean that Le Guin, Doyle, Pratchett, Tolkien, Mary Shelly, and King were hacks.

Demanding 100% consistency from collaborative works separated by decades is absolutely ridiculous.

Never mind that to treat fiction as pointing to a absolute, single, and truthy set of objective interpretations about what really happened to the characters is to misunderstand most of it.

But, there's a middle ground between "fuck consistency" and "canon" and it's called "good storytelling."