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Building on this you don’t have to take the Authors ideas as canon in post works. A great example is JK Rowling. She wrote the original series which people can more or less agree are canon. You might have your own particular headcanons that alter the story slightly but you at least acknowledge hey that’s how I read the books/interpreted the movies.
Everything post the HP series is just ... oh JK learned how to take part in her own fandom. That’s kinda neat. She has her favorite fanfic (Cursed Child), her 1920s AU (Fantastic Beasts) and even her own headcanons (wizards were incontinent before flushable toilets).
But it’s not like the bulk of the fandom necessarily accepts all those things. People usually only accept the parts of her headcanon that agree with their own. In the exact same way I will accept another fans headcanon if they agree with my own.
It’s kinda fascinating phenomena watching her go from God of her universe when the original books came out to basically just another big name fan who can’t really control the narrative of the fandom.
Since I've been seeing this a lot recently:
- Just because an actor or a singer or whatever has done something criminal, doesn't mean you can no longer enjoy their past work. For example, Ian Watkins is scum, but I still listen to Lostprophets a lot.
Building on this you don’t have to take the Authors ideas as canon in post works. A great example is JK Rowling. She wrote the original series which people can more or less agree are canon. You might have your own particular headcanons that alter the story slightly but you at least acknowledge hey that’s how I read the books/interpreted the movies.
Everything post the HP series is just ... oh JK learned how to take part in her own fandom. That’s kinda neat. She has her favorite fanfic (Cursed Child), her 1920s AU (Fantastic Beasts) and even her own headcanons (wizards were incontinent before flushable toilets).
But it’s not like the bulk of the fandom necessarily accepts all those things. People usually only accept the parts of her headcanon that agree with their own. In the exact same way I will accept another fans headcanon if they agree with my own.
It’s kinda fascinating phenomena watching her go from God of her universe when the original books came out to basically just another big name fan who can’t really control the narrative of the fandom.