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30 Days of Fan Fiction Meme, Day 13
Jul. 11th, 2011 11:32 pm13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
Well, reading fan fic (The Body) has utterly changed my view of Death Note. It's harder to say with writing fic, because the process of my transforming a fandom through my writing is seemlessly connected to the process of just being a viewer/reader and starting to fill in the gaps to make meaning. But ultimately, I think my writing of Watari in Death Note changed my view of him.
As for preferring canon or fanon, it depends. On the whole, I have a deep enough respect for canon that when a canon does something I really, really wish it hadn't, I usually try to accommodate it in my mind somehow. In the case of Kousaka in Mirage of Blaze, I accommodated right out of having any real connection to the character. If fanon adds to canon (rather than contradicting it), I add fanon gladly (thus, a lot of my fic is future fic). The Body is mostly in this category. If fanon contradicts canon, I occasionally take it on if canon has done something I really can't abide, something that just hurts my fundamental reason for liking a story, like killing off my favorite character, for example. And sometimes, as in Blake's 7, canon and fanon exist side by side for me, mutually contradictory but equally important, and either a universe I can dive into.
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Well, reading fan fic (The Body) has utterly changed my view of Death Note. It's harder to say with writing fic, because the process of my transforming a fandom through my writing is seemlessly connected to the process of just being a viewer/reader and starting to fill in the gaps to make meaning. But ultimately, I think my writing of Watari in Death Note changed my view of him.
As for preferring canon or fanon, it depends. On the whole, I have a deep enough respect for canon that when a canon does something I really, really wish it hadn't, I usually try to accommodate it in my mind somehow. In the case of Kousaka in Mirage of Blaze, I accommodated right out of having any real connection to the character. If fanon adds to canon (rather than contradicting it), I add fanon gladly (thus, a lot of my fic is future fic). The Body is mostly in this category. If fanon contradicts canon, I occasionally take it on if canon has done something I really can't abide, something that just hurts my fundamental reason for liking a story, like killing off my favorite character, for example. And sometimes, as in Blake's 7, canon and fanon exist side by side for me, mutually contradictory but equally important, and either a universe I can dive into.
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