It's interesting that I'm also extremely canon compliant (as I like to call it in my head) and definitely canon has a special place in my head and heart, but I don't ...rank them. That is, it's not that fic is "lesser" for me. It's more like it occupies a completely different category. It's a bit like, say someone draws a picture based on canon. Is that picture inherently better or more significant than canon? No! Should we abandon what's in canon for the sake of the world the fanart is creating by existing? Some would argue yes, because to them the fanart represents something more perfect, more whole, than the world that was created by canon. But for me the answer is no. But at the same time, I feel like we can't really compare the two. The very act of deriving something new out of canon transforms it into a form that's incomparable (in my head at least) to canon.
I am a fan of canon. I can enjoy a fic, I can fall in love with it, etc. It could be the best thing that's ever been written. It could be emotionally/intellectually more satisfying then canon. But if I were to write fanfic based on the fic, it would in my head be a step removed from any fanfic I would write based on canon, if that makes sense. Like, fanon characterization (hi Draco in leatherpants!) is often enjoyable in and of itself but it doesn't actually have to impact canon characterization in my head.
So then, you can fix/rewrite canon as many times as you like, and some of those rewrites will be amazing but they won't really be lesser or greater than the source material, to me. Just different.
This is perhaps ramblier and less coherent than I wish but I'm too tired to make it more coherent.
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Date: 2019-11-21 03:42 am (UTC)I am a fan of canon. I can enjoy a fic, I can fall in love with it, etc. It could be the best thing that's ever been written. It could be emotionally/intellectually more satisfying then canon. But if I were to write fanfic based on the fic, it would in my head be a step removed from any fanfic I would write based on canon, if that makes sense. Like, fanon characterization (hi Draco in leatherpants!) is often enjoyable in and of itself but it doesn't actually have to impact canon characterization in my head.
So then, you can fix/rewrite canon as many times as you like, and some of those rewrites will be amazing but they won't really be lesser or greater than the source material, to me. Just different.
This is perhaps ramblier and less coherent than I wish but I'm too tired to make it more coherent.