[ SECRET POST #4695 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4695 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I never knew canon compliancy was a thing in bandom... since it's like, an oxymoron. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

[(Anonymous)]

But I think OP's comment does a good job of demonstrating why it makes sense as a concept - because the "reality" in bandom is constructed and stylized.

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ayrt

I still find that so strange though, like this is real life where canon doesn't really apply, since despite all the managing they go through, they all have a free will that can't be put down to 'the word of god', y'know.
I get the general idea, and see what OP is getting at, but I have a hard time wrapping my head around it;;

[(Anonymous)]

Meh, I feel like canon compliant in bandom has a similar meaning to canon compliant in say, TV or movies or books, where the writer is writing around canon events and perhaps expanding on things not shown on screen/on page that conceivably could have happened because nothing directly contradicts it.

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ayrt

I just have a hard time understanding that real people can have a perceived canon at all. Like in any other media you have the writers and directors deciding what's what, where you can't have that in RPF. Cut,
Honestly I like OP's take that because they're famous they realistically should have crew around most of the time, but it still boggles my mind.

[(Anonymous)]

You totally can, though. I mean, check out any gossip magazine or website - they make characters out of famous people and have "feuds" and "secret affairs" and "a good friend of [celebrity] said..." I mean, I don't know if Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie have ever even met each other, but there's been decades of published stories about their "feud" over Brad Pitt, and how Jennifer Aniston is totally definitely pregnant this time etc. etc. etc. The British Royal family are another source of RPF-style "canon" in the mainstream press.

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ayrt

Huh. That's actually very interesting, I hadn't though about it like that at all. I mean it's basically dehumanizing them to the point where they're just the characters the gossipmongers want them to be... I can see how you could craft a canon from that. Since like you said, the only reality we know is (arguably) from the headlines and news articles that talk about them. RPF actually has more layers than I originally thought;; (Very well put, btw!)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the opposite. I've never liked canon compliant bandom. It feels too weird and kinda wrong to read about a singer's drug problems in a fic when they're having drug problems in real life. I prefer AUs because it's another line of separation from the band's real life.

[(Anonymous)]

You should have already accepted the weird and wrong the moment you started RPFing.
Adding more lines of separation between fiction and reality doesn't place you farther away, but right on top of the wrong. (well less so if it's self shipping... maybe?)
These are real people we're talking about here, you know that right?

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I think I'm okay with the concept of RPF, and then people talk about "canon" in REAL PEOPLE'S lives and back it up with the existence of trash tabloids and it makes something inside me shrivel up. It's just wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

and then people talk about "canon" in REAL PEOPLE'S lives

I mean, RPFers need a way of talking about established events. I don't think calling "things we know happened because they happened publicly or were explicitly mentioned by the individuals involved" canon is that unreasonable. If an RPFer starts saying stuff is "canon" when it's actually just speculation then yeah, that's definitely squicky, but it makes sense that in fandom, where the word 'canon' is already in heavy use, it would be used by RPFers as well.