I think I dislike ‘fuck canon fanon rulez’ takes because time after time I see how boring and predictable fanon is and how often it reinforces racism and misogyny etc. in ways canon never did
and I think having to work around canon and with canon to make something new usually ends up pushing people to make something weirder and cooler
I rambled about this on Discord the other day. I love working within the confines of the rules of some other story, whether it's fan fiction or something else, and blatantly ignoring everything just to do my own thing with the original story's canon feels more like a quick way to having all the characters become caricatures. For parody, that's funny, but for a lot of fan work it just makes it kind of boring.





