[ SECRET POST #5918 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5918 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I remember one fandom I was in back in the mid 90s which had to make a rule that you weren't allowed to answer canon questions as the character, because people kept saying "I know how this happened because I *am* [character] and I was there."

Kind of nice to see it's still going on nearly 30 years later! And we're all in fandom, we're all big weirdo nerds, stop it with these respectability politics.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get the logic of using "I was there" to resolve canon debates. Sure, I remember how things went in my timeline. The one they're writing over at Video Game Corporation isn't that, though, as evidenced by, just for starters, the fact that I didn't inexplicably vanish from it five entries ago.

[(Anonymous)]

At the time, the fictionkin seemed to take as written that everything in the canon had literally happened to them. "I was there" was for details that weren't literally written out in the books - like why Character A was kind to Character B in this scene. Obviously it's part of a character arc where Character A is becoming kinder and more thoughtful because of the suffering he's seeing, but because it wasn't directly written as "Character A felt sorry for Character B, even though he's usually an asshole who doesn't care about other people's suffering, so tried to help him a little in a way that didn't inconvenience himself and this makes him think more about kindness." So people who "were" Character A would give all different reasons for why they were kind to Character B in that scene.

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DA

Yeah, so much this. But then, people who believe there's one right way to interpret canon and want to be the final authority about anything in fandom tend to make pretty poor company. IME.

I guess I've had good luck with fictionkin, in that regard. With their not trying to leverage their assertion into the belief that they are the ONLY reincarnation of whatever or the only legitimate one! To such an extent that I associate that particular variety of insufferable more with people who think the person they were in a previous life was a historical character.