[ SECRET POST #6043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6043 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Like, when you're in a group of people who all have either a shared set of headcanons or even one shared headcanon, or just like an inside joke, then it's all fun and good to be like 'Uh actually we all know X happened', because you're *with people who will 'yes, and' about it*. In my little small fandom group, we have a couple things that are... well, whether or not one of them is canon remains to be seen, but all have our fun saying 'yeah, we all watched the show where this happened', but like...

If I was talking to another fan who, like... I don't know what parts of the show they're into and I don't know what they do or don't like, then I wouldn't say the same things, because the tone might not communicate, and I'm not out to like... mislead a casual fan or someone who hasn't finished the last season!

And, while my circle is pretty chill about 'we know the show won't do the thing we want most and that's good actually because we can just play in this sandbox', there are definitely corners of the same fandom where people are *really* setting themselves up to be hurt because they get into that place where they're genuinely sure that such and such a ship is going to be canon when there's no indication that it will, and hanging SO much on that...

[(Anonymous)]

Related anecdote: It was months before I found out and, was genuinely shocked, that the show everyone was always calling "the gay pirate show" had any canon gay anything in it, because for ages fans have referred to shows with nothing but subtext and gay juggernaut ships that are not canon in the least as "the gay/lesbian (whatever it's about) show." And with lots of people looking for canon gay relationships for main characters, those years of fandom inside jokes about something being gay when it isn't will probably result in those people overlooking things that actually do have the canon gay relationships they're looking for because they'll assume it's just fandom joking around again.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, exactly. My little fandom group has inside jokes in the "we all agree X happened/these characters are 100% fucking" flavor too, but we would never say those things in the larger fandom because they wouldn't get that it was a joke and that none of us are actually taking it seriously. We don't ACTUALLY believe the villains are fucking in canon, we just like to joke about it because of the intense amount of subtext they have.