[ SECRET POST #6348 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6348 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's... that's what headcanon has always meant. 'A self-contained version of canon that exists in one's head, regardless of its accuracy to the version of canon that exists on the screen'.

Maybe people kept their headcanons more adjacent to canon back in the day, but actual canon-compliance has never been a requisite for the "make up things about characters" side of fandom.

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DA

I agree, headcannon =/= canon, people can do whatever they want. But let's be honest, if you HC a gay character as bi/straight/anything else, people flip their shit in a way they never do if the character is bi HC as gay.

[(Anonymous)]

What? No it hasn't, not in any fandom I've ever been in.

[(Anonymous)]

DA Not true! Headcanon used to mean "something that has no appeared on screen but does not contradict any canon events". You could also make things up all you liked, but a headcanon meant specifically something that was canon-compliant but not canon.

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(Different) DA

Not in any fandom I can remember being a part of, anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Different Different DA

Your experiences are weird then, because that's always been the definition in every fandom I've ever been apart of for the last 30 years.

[(Anonymous)]

That was my understanding of it too. Either builds off canon or at least fits in without contradicting anything else.

You can certainly come up with events that contradict with canon, but it stops being headcanon and is just a fantasy. Headcanons are based on the original story, while fantasies deny original events in favor of a fan's or fic author's preferred story.

[(Anonymous)]

You say that like you think fantasies are a bad thing, even when the material for those fantasies is fiction in the first place.

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DA

No, they don't? It's just a definition....

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure how you interpreted my post that way, but I don't have a problem with fantasies. I have a problem with calling them headcanon when they clearly contradict established canon.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this is how I've always seen the term used in every fandom I've ever been in. Headcanon is for stuff that can fit into canon without contradicting it, like deciding that a character's favorite ice cream flavor is Rocky Road or that when they were a kid they had a teddy bear named Mr. Dinkums that they slept with until they were seven.

Anything that contradicts canon in any way is considered an AU, not a headcanon.