I'm the opposite. I hope to publish a series of novels and gain a huge fandom following. Bonus if there's a lot of shipping and such.

...Then subsequent books can start sinking ships and I can make the ships I like canon while the ones that make me twitch I can sink... over and over again!

Mean, but yes, but the control. It's sooooo good and if you're the creator, what you say is final for your creations, senseless fandumb be damned!