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potentiality_26) wrote2014-01-11 08:58 pm
potentiality_26) wrote2014-01-11 08:58 pm
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This is probably a question that people hate to be asked
But I'm going for it.
When I write fic, I pretty much have to go with what's in canon. Unless I'm specifically writing a 'what if x happened instead of y' A.U., I have to at least work around what happened. I don't mind reading other people's stories that ignore canon, I just have trouble with it myself.
But a while ago, I started an OUAT story. I basically forgot about it, but I was looking at it again and I still like it. I'm not caught up on the show, but I don't mind spoilers for this particular series, so I know what happens. And I know that basically everything in my story has been jossed, but like I said, I still like it.
Anyway, what I'm wondering is whether most people have my hang-up about canon or not. If I wave my magical writer's wand and say "Everything after The Doctor is unhappened (which is a word that I just made up). Any resemblance to stuff that happens after that is legitimately incidental. Okay? Okay. Here we go..." will most people want to run with that?
When I write fic, I pretty much have to go with what's in canon. Unless I'm specifically writing a 'what if x happened instead of y' A.U., I have to at least work around what happened. I don't mind reading other people's stories that ignore canon, I just have trouble with it myself.
But a while ago, I started an OUAT story. I basically forgot about it, but I was looking at it again and I still like it. I'm not caught up on the show, but I don't mind spoilers for this particular series, so I know what happens. And I know that basically everything in my story has been jossed, but like I said, I still like it.
Anyway, what I'm wondering is whether most people have my hang-up about canon or not. If I wave my magical writer's wand and say "Everything after The Doctor is unhappened (which is a word that I just made up). Any resemblance to stuff that happens after that is legitimately incidental. Okay? Okay. Here we go..." will most people want to run with that?
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