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	kijikun 2006-08-11 06:13 am UTC (link)
	I don't think canon means what iggy04 thinks it means. (Reply to this)

	honorh 2006-08-11 06:23 am UTC (link)
	Meh, not really that wanktastic so far. Seems there's some misapprehension over definitions, the rant was far from necessary, and Iggy needs to read more carefully, but that's kinda par for the course. It's more in the realm of "disagreement" than "wankery." (Reply to this)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2006-08-11 06:26 am UTC (link)
	More like those shudders you get out of the blue that feel funny. (Am I alone in getting those? Mainly when people play with the hair at the back of my neck?) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	seraphtrevs 2006-08-11 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Iggy is really confused, isn't she? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-12 12:24 am UTC (link)
	Just a noob who learns spectacularly slowly. ~Kuro (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	hypno_jango 2006-08-11 07:00 am UTC (link)
	Not really wanky but she's definitely confusing IC/OOC with canon/fanon. (Reply to this)

	8daze 2006-08-11 07:03 am UTC (link)
	OMG everyone, I just got this great idea for some canon! I'll go write it and post it on fanfiction.net, with all those other brilliant pieces of canon!!112! (Reply to this)

	flightstothesea 2006-08-11 07:05 am UTC (link)
	Er, isn't that... kind of the point? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	redcoast 2006-08-11 07:18 am UTC (link)
	Makes a complain? (Reply to this)

	m_butterfly 2006-08-11 07:24 am UTC (link)
	I finally stopped watching ffrants about a while back, and I can't tell if it warms me or saddens me that iggy04 is still marching determinedly on in his/her largely harmless yet spectacularly clueless way. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	aristaea 2006-08-11 07:26 am UTC (link)
	teawithvoldy: Like people wishing CC's fics are canon cos Draco is sooooo hawt in leather pants. But they are canon. Lots of canons, in fact . . . (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	jail 2006-08-11 07:26 am UTC (link)
	How am I being silly if I happen to really enjoy a fic that is canon? what. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	Well... (Anonymous) 2006-08-11 07:27 am UTC (link)
	This was sane until iggy's post- and then allira made the mistake of replying...but I agree, it's not really wanky yet. Has high potential wank, though- especially if CC's coughpsychocough fans show up! LOL- just headdesking along with almira_dream here.... (Reply to this)

life_on_mars
2006-08-11 07:38 am UTC (link)

My version of this is "All fan fiction is an alternative universe". It doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to stick with the rules of the original, but then again once you have accepted that it is an alternative universe and will never be anything but, you are free to play around with the details at will. If only people could get that into their heads, we might have fewer canon/not canon arguments because as the OP says NONE OF IT IS BLOODY CANON.

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	greenling 2006-08-11 08:43 am UTC (link)
	Fanfics are not canon. They will not be canon. No matter what happens Fanfics. Are. Not. Canon. Until you get published, but then it's not fanfic, it's, uhm... fan-written fictional novels. Irrelevant, but I couldn't resist. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	dawnswalker 2006-08-11 09:02 am UTC (link)
	Well, at least Iggy04 isn't spelling it "cannon," and then bitching about the fic she read that had piss-poor spelling. (Reply to this)

	skeezix 2006-08-11 09:25 am UTC (link)
	Allira hasn't been reading any of the stuff Marvel or DC is currently publishing, has she? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	*sigh* tsuzukilove 2006-08-11 09:55 am UTC (link)
	headdesk I'm not touching Iggy with a ten-foot pole. (Reply to this)(Thread)

Re: *sigh* - (Anonymous), 2006-08-19 08:31 pm UTC

fernwithy
2006-08-11 05:54 pm UTC (link)

Honestly, I'm not sure what either person is saying. When a reader says, "That's so canon!" s/he pretty much means, "Wow! That's a Snape that's doing something Snape would actually do!" As to such and such a ship being canon... well, that usually means that such and such a ship is canon--R/T is canon, R/S is not canon. Saying a fic is "so canon!" about an R/T fic means that it reflects the ship as presented in canon, rather than having Tonks be an E3IL WENCH and Remus only dating her because she can shapeshift into Sirius, his true love.

On the other hand, it's clear from the original post that the OP seems to believe that saying a fic is "so canon" means we actually think that the canon writer is going to include it, so iggy's responses to it are odd. Though honestly, as a canon-compliant writer, the OP bothers me a a whole lot more, because I can't believe that people actually think that's what "so canon" means when it's made as a comment on a fic.

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	(Anonymous) 2006-08-11 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	Unbelievable! C.C. writes canon! Read her and her glory. Oh wait, she steals... never mind. magicks@lj.com (Reply to this)

	sarajayechan 2006-08-11 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, and fanficrants seemed to be doing so well in not showing up here lately. (Reply to this)

	redwarrior 2006-08-11 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	I agree with the OP. Sure, a fic may have canon pairings and deal with canon characters/ events, but THE FIC IS NOT CANON because the original author DID NOT write it. No matter how much we wish for it to be. (Reply to this)(Thread)