[ SECRET POST #184 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #184 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 131 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 ] personal attacks.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, July 9th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
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Comments

[levikitty.livejournal.com]

4. The obsession with canon is not OMG, YOU CAN'T WRITE X WITH Y BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN CANON.

The obsession with canon is that it's the entire basis for your fanfiction/fanart. Even in AU. If someone's an asshole in canon, they should be an asshole in your AU, otherwise, you took away what made that character that character, unless your AU can work around it. Say, if something tragic happened in canon, if it didn't happen in your AU, then it's okay to ignore it. Any personality changes that happened to characters as a result in that AU can be ignored. If someone became depressed because a relative died in canon, you can keep that relative alive in your AU and that someone won't have to be depressed.

You don't have to follow canon exactly, but if you don't at least include some of it, you aren't writing fanfiction.

You're writing original fic that steals the names and looks of somebody else's characters, because you left out the most important aspect of them: personality.