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⌈ Secret Post #6264 ⌋

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[Fandom: Tiān Guān Cì Fú/Heaven Official's Blessing
Ship: Beefleaf (Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan)]

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[Music, Drake/Kendrick Lamar beef, What's the Beef? Youtube channel]

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The other question got me thinking about interpretations, and I realized I like Tony Stark in fandom a lot more than I like him in the MCU.

I prefer the movie version of Ron Weasley. I would say the fan version, but those are equally split between himbo ditz version, and evil puppy raper version. I don't like the latter one.

Love the Himbo Ditz version. Then again I really love himbo ditz interpretations of many characters.

I do like the evil Insaneway version of Janeway from Voyager. The campy Ming the Merciless in a Starfleet universe, Harry Kim torturing, planet conquering version of Janeway.

Captain Janeway, we, the hostile aliens of the week, accuse you of genocide!

~~Canon Janeway: Okay, this is a misunderstanding everyone to the meeting room to work out how to solve this.~~

Insaneway: You're gonna have to be more specific than that, are we talking this week or just in general? Bah, bored anyway, Tuvok, one torpedo, maximum yield, and write "Fuck you" on it so they get the message!

That Janeway.

To stick with the MCU, I like fandom Steve better than movie Steve just because they were so goddamned uneven with his character. His first movie starts off with him committing a felony, but then with the Avengers movie he becomes some 50s WASPy asshole with a stick in his ass about swearing, only to return to being the character in his own movie in CATWS where he can snark with Natasha after she kicks a dude of a roof. I started getting whiplash.

I like the fanon that that was Steve trying to joke with his team but it falling absolutely flat amd instead of backing down he went with it. Or trolling them all.

He would troll the fuck out them. Because at his core, Steve is a little shit.

My fic krptonite is Stucky fic where Bucky comes back and sees how Steve acts with everyone trolling the heck out of them (or sees how everyone thinks of Steve as this shiny propaganda version of Captain America) and is just "wtf Steve." And then everyone is educated in what a little shit that Steve Rogers really is.

That is all on Joss Whedon. He only knows how to write snarky characters and since Steve isn't a snarky character, he just decided to with stuck up religious type. Which makes no f'ing sense.

AYRT

I'll probably get called names for this, but I never understood why people liked his stuff. I'm the weirdo who preferred the Buffy movie to the show, Firefly was ok I guess but I have doubts it would have stayed that way if it got more than one season, and all of his movies seem to me like good film student assignments at best, not actual professional major motion pictures.

THANK YOU
I am absolutely baffled by Buffy. Firefly was ok, but Serenity showed that it would be shit later on. I HATE Dollhouse. I liked Cabin in the Woods, but it's not exactly his movie

It's rare that I don't end up preferring fanon versions of characters after awhile.

I've always like the fan interpretation of Ryouga in Ranma One Half to being just in love with Ranma but so utterly repressed and emotion starved, that he has no way to express the emotions he feels but with violence.

I'm not a fan of the original version of Dracula's character (love the book though) but adore many fan adaptions of Dracula.

Gendo Ikari: Evil Bastard, or Pimp Daddy?

I like Pimp Daddy Gendo.

This was me throughout my Harry Potter phase - ESPECIALLY with Snape.
Fandom Snape just scratched the perfect itch back in the 2000s for goth kid me because the majority of the fics I was into were either writing him the dead opposite to his actual character or were under the influence of Anne Rice writing aesthetic (my absolute bread and butter back then).

I like fanSnape better just because it gets the book fans, and the performative social justice types (as opposed to actual real social justice campaigners) all steamed up and angry. I realize that is shallow of me, but fuck them.

I flashbacked so hard I got a nose bleed. Yes. Exactly!

For a LOT of femslash I'm into, fandom interpretation tends to be the reason behind how to make a couple work (from 'filling in the gaps' or expanding on the bare minimum that's given in canon). Even more so when I'm creating ideas/motivation/AUs/etc for these particular ships, because of how much thought I've put into the characters I start to feel a little more attached to them and favor the version I've created for them.

Also, a really specific example that comes to mind is Matt from Death Note. He's barely in the actual series with only a handful of lines - but being a friend of Mello and fandom taking the crumbs to go buck wild into the fanworks had lead to him being one of the most popular characters in the series (I might be misremembering, but I think there was a popularity poll done and he may have come up in the top ten).

I think Fanon Hawkeye is generally more interesting as long as he isn't just comic relief in a fic.

In some cases mentioning the fandom can be important because I was thinking "but fanon Hawkeye sucks for the most part" until I got to the "he". So not FMA, and I guess Marvel, not Mash?
Too many damn Hawkeyes.

ayrt

Sorry, didn't really think about that since I was replying to someone who mentioned Tony Stark and the MCU. Yeah, Clint Barton.

Re: Do you ever prefer a fandom version of a character?

(Anonymous) - 2024-03-01 11:19 (UTC) - Expand

MCU Hawkeye I absolutely prefer fanon, but Fractions Hawkeyes I prefer canon!

I usually do not care for fanon interpretations. Also I am not into shows that "could do better" - either I like it or don't. And there is Dresden Files. This books are shit, Dresden sucks, but boy do I like fics and fanons

That's funny, my fandom bread and butter is shows that could do better. I love shows that have something I like but don't quite hit the mark, and then fandom just runs with it and "fixes" everything. If I genuinely like something I don't do fandom for it.

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