[ SECRET POST #5564 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5564 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What I don't understand is when "headcanon" became shorthand for "major thing about a character that is absolutely not at all supported by canon in any way, shape or form." Growing up in fandom in the 90s and 00s, headcanon always meant stuff like "I headcanon that this character really likes mint chocolate chip ice cream," the kind of thing that could conceivably be believable and that didn't have any sort of larger effect on the character or story as a whole.

[(Anonymous)]

This. When I first got into fandom, headcanon was shit like 'dude wears the CRAZIEST socks' when you never see his socks in canon. Or so and so using a certain brand of shampoo. Stupid little shit.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it started when people started treating fandom as a tool for performatively demonstrating how morally correct you are by your faves and ships, rather than as a fun game and pastime. So now you get people who still have like 90% canonically straight white dude faves, but who need Diversity(tm) in there so they can claim superiority. So they make up Diverse(tm) headcanon about them to look more "correct" and try to impose it on everyone else so they can feel like they are doing activism or some shit

[(Anonymous)]

I don't remember a time when "major thing" headcanons weren't the norm, but that used to mostly mean creating elaborate backstories for characters who didn't have a backstory.

[(Anonymous)]

That's the kind of headcanoning that actually makes sense, though. Obviously the character HAS a backstory, the creator just hasn't gone into it so if someone wants to write fic about the character they have to fill in the blank themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, headcanon used to mean "I will treat this plausible theory as my personal canon unless something canon contradicts it". Sometimes it was something big, just not something explored in canon.

The current meaning also happened, but it was just "my fic where X is autistic", not called a headcanon.