[ SECRET POST #2403 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2403 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Mixed feelings here. I'm in one small fandom where ripping on canon is the collective team sport, and a lot of fic comment threads reflect this, and we have jokes about which parts of canon we hate so much we pretend they do not exist, etc. But in that fandom, I've received several comments saying 'I like your take on Character X better than canon' and every time I just want to ragequit forever, and I can't even describe exactly why. The closest I've come to defining it is that my fics rely on canon and serve as personal commentary on canon - they can't replace it in any sense.

I do think a lot of fic can come from rage at the imperfect. Canon exists, and it matters to you, but then something about it fucks you up and you have to scream back at it, get into it, take out your feelings on it, personalise it. It's something like blasphemy.

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I think maybe you feel that way because there's a BIG difference between rage at a stupid/awful plot development or canon character derailment or a missed opportunity or a steady decline in quality, and literally just plain not liking the source material and thinking the show/book/whatever is worthless. In fact, they're almost polar opposites. No one would rage at a canonical work that they disliked through and through -- people usually rage at stuff that is part-"stuff they love" and part-"stuff they hate that happened instead of something better that would have fit with the stuff they love".

tl;dr -- hating Thing X about Show Y is totally different from hating Show Y, and while dissing Thing X and writing fic to fix it is awesome, dissing Show Y just pisses fans off.

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AYRT

Yeah but my suspicion is that the comments OP is describing are more likely to come form that kind of mixed-up love-hate place than pure dislike, because people who feel pure dislike for the canon aren't likely to be reading fic for it in the first place, and the fannish expression of lovehate tends to devolve simply to hate because, if you're in the fandom, the love part goes without saying.