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Seriously?
Today I finally got splashed by one of the little weirdos who somehow think canonicity has anything at all to do with fic. In this particular case, that Roy/Ed was OMG WRONG because Ed marries Winry at the end of canon. Which, on the one hand… did they somehow think I /missed/ that? That, I don’t know, I somehow just hadn’t realized, and would obviously repudiate my own story if some ‘kind’ soul just informed me? (Newsflash: the answer is no.) And on the other hand… seriously, what the fuck has that got to do with the price of Roy/Ed in fandom? (Additional newsflash: always high.) This is /fanfiction/. Say it with me “fan-fic-tion”, which is very different from “can-on”. You can hear the difference right?
Fortunately, a brisk smack on the nose with a rolled up newspaper dissuaded them, but I’m still having to pause and shake my head over the very idea that anyone, even tiny, under-socialized fanbrats, could possibly imagine that “that’s not canon!” would ever be anything but laughable, as a response to fic.
No, it’s not canon. That’s the /point/.
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Today I finally got splashed by one of the little weirdos who somehow think canonicity has anything at all to do with fic. In this particular case, that Roy/Ed was OMG WRONG because Ed marries Winry at the end of canon. Which, on the one hand… did they somehow think I /missed/ that? That, I don’t know, I somehow just hadn’t realized, and would obviously repudiate my own story if some ‘kind’ soul just informed me? (Newsflash: the answer is no.) And on the other hand… seriously, what the fuck has that got to do with the price of Roy/Ed in fandom? (Additional newsflash: always high.) This is /fanfiction/. Say it with me “fan-fic-tion”, which is very different from “can-on”. You can hear the difference right?
Fortunately, a brisk smack on the nose with a rolled up newspaper dissuaded them, but I’m still having to pause and shake my head over the very idea that anyone, even tiny, under-socialized fanbrats, could possibly imagine that “that’s not canon!” would ever be anything but laughable, as a response to fic.
No, it’s not canon. That’s the /point/.
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