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Do you have any hangups with any details in your favorite canons?

Like, it will always be Fred Albus Potter, not Albus Severus. I just can't see Ginny accepting Severus as a name for her kid after what Snape did to her husband and her friends. And I just can't buy that Ginny would let Harry have all the names and just take one middle name and use it for a name of someone who was also a close friend of her husband. So Fred would be the first name.

that's... pretty weird

I don't really like Fred as a first name, but you're right, it makes sense and seems a lot more fair than having all their children's names be people who were closer and more meaningful to Harry.

My canon hang ups:

I hate the way Sherlock's parents are characterized in canon. Sherlock and Mycroft have issues on top of their issues. Everything about them suggests they were raised in a way that led them to the bone-deep conviction that emotion is inferior and weak, and caring about people is useless and potentially damaging. I will never believe that they had two normal, loving, reasonably good parents, and somehow became so profoundly maladjusted all on their own. (Note: I'm not saying that parents are the only thing in life that can give a person issues. I'm just saying that the particular nature of Sherlock and Mycroft's issues makes me, personally, completely convinced their parents were very much not good parents.)

I also loathe that Moffat and Gatiss decided Sherlock wasn't Sherlock's actual first name. That just seems incredibly arrogant to me - to change this iconic, 130-year-old character's name...for lols? I don't even know.

Admittedly, I loathe the majority of Sherlock canon from S3 onward. But these are two things that really stand out.

For X-Files canon, one little canon thing I remember hating was that Mulder was colorblind. But it was only ever mentioned once, a couple of seasons in, and then never again. IDK, I just really hate when writers throw out some pretty significant character trait, on a whim, for the purposes of a single episode. It just feels so disjointed, and I was never able to incorporate it into how I thought about Mulder.

That's Moffat and Gatiss, though - eager to capitalize and profit off the fame of the ACD canon, but treat it with contempt.

True enough.

So Mulder can’t tell between alien and human blood?? lmaooo

The truth is out there, right between red and green haha fuck

lmao

you made me chortle

Maybe he's yellow/blue colorblind.

Does he think Scully’s a brunette?

I have to admit, the number one reason I hate Mulder being colorblind is because it means he can't appreciate Scully's magnificent hair. :P

It's not the only reason, though.

Not that I'm not 100% onboard with the hating on S3-and-on Sherlock thing, but I thought William was just his confirmation name? Like, that's just a thing if you're baptized Catholic (which of course doesn't mean you're practicing, it's more just a tradition)-- my dad, for instance. To the entire world, he'd be Firstname Middlename Lastname, but if he feels like being a fancy little shit he could technically state his name as Francis Firstname Middlename Lastname, because Francis was his confirmation name. It's a weird thing, but that's what I assumed when I heard "William Sherlock Scott Holmes."

I don't think that was the implication? I mean, I see nothing in the script to suggest that's what the writers meant when they had Sherlock say "William Sherlock Scott Holmes. That's the whole of it. If you're looking for baby names." Personally, I just take that statement at face value. Nothing is ever mentioned about it being a confirmation name, Sherlock's parents don't seem particularly religious, and Sherlock himself is the very staunchest of atheists.

But are they Catholic? I'm a confirmed Episcopalian and no one gave me an extra name.

I've known a lot of people who very strictly go by a middle name or nickname out of personal preference or because it's what everyone called them growing up. I just assumed that was the case with that version of Sherlock.

We're talking Sherlock's parents in Sherlock cannon, not ACD canon, right? Because his parents aren't portrayed at all in A CD canon.

There have been so many adaptations and reinterpretation of Sherlock Holmes and the mythos was grown far beyond the original stories (not that I don't love the original stories) that I find it hard to get really mad when a new version does something I don't like.

There's nothing weird about Ginny letting Harry have all the names. She had lots of siblings who could pass on her important names through their kids; Harry didn't. George and Angelina got to use the name Fred for one of their kids because Fred was George's twin.

Because she has a lot of siblings, she doesn't get to name any of her kids? No, I don't agree. that would be a reason why Harry would get to name two and her one. But she'd absolutely insist on having input and getting to name one herself. Ginny was a firecracker. I can't imagine her ever just letting Harry name all the kids.

Especially since he was so bad at it. I can see her letting him name one, and then being like, OK, new rule. You get to name the owls. They don't care what the humans call them anyway.

Re: Weird hangups

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-02 03:48 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Weird hangups

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-02 04:04 (UTC) - Expand

I just can't see Ginny accepting Severus as a name for her kid after what Snape did to her husband and her friends.

Okay but if Harry wanted the name then Harry had clearly accepted it and still had respect for Snape so it would be kind of shitty for Ginny to say "I don't care about how YOU feel about it," don't you think?

Given that Harry chose the names for all three kids, I think it would be perfectly reasonable for Ginny to want a say on one name and to veto one name. Her having no say at all and him getting to name all three is what is shitty.

To me? No, I don't think it would be shitty for Ginny to veto a name. When deciding on a name for your child, if both parents are around, then both parents should get to have input into the names. I'd be livid if my partner had decided on a name for our child that I hated. Especially if it were the name of someone in my past who had done awful things to me and my friends. You think it would be shitty of Ginny to say "I don't care about how YOU feel about it," but you don't think that it would be shitty if Harry had said that to Ginny about using the name?

(I'm not saying Ginny actually cared. As far as I remember we didn't find out how Ginny felt about Snape at the end and/or how she felt about the name. I'm just saying that if she had felt strongly negative about the name it would have been more shitty for Harry to insist upon using it for their child than for Ginny to say she didn't want to use it. Which you seem to be saying the exact opposite of.)

If she dislikes or distrusts him even a little, or even has a completely neutral take on him, no matter Harry or how he feels about it that’s enough to be like “Nah, I don’t want to think of him every time my kid’s name gets brought up for the rest of my life.” ??

Re: Weird hangups

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-02 05:18 (UTC) - Expand

I have a lot of character-naming convention hangups. I get why it's done, but I hate how fantasy, sci-fi, or historical settings always give the main characters names that sound pretty or cool by modern 21st century Earth standards. It's weird because it only bothers me with names, too. Using other aesthetics that look cool by our standards? Fine. Names? Not buying it.

Huh. I used to nod along to stuff saying that Ginny has a weird naming sense too since she named her owl Pigwidgeon so of course she'd be cool with all of Harry's weird name choices!! but yeah. Why should she only get to decide one middle name? Fred Albus makes more sense than Albus Severus.

Excuse you what the duck else are you going to name a pigwidgeon but pigwidgeon?! Look at a bundle of feathers in a puff and don’t tell me a feeling doesn’t arise from your soul, your maw transforming it into an instinctually delighted mewl of PigWidGEON

Re: Weird hangups

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