Hahaha, it doesn't sound delusional at all, because I am TOTALLY doing this. I'm not sure if it's quite that clearly defined for me, but the vaguely delusional "best parts" canon is ABSOLUTELY the one that I'm writing for. <3
I think the way I conceptualize it personally is that I'm constantly editing and revising pretty much anything in my head as I watch it. There's really nothing that doesn't require SOME mental editing to get from TV-reality to fictional-reality - for example, even really excellent canons usually have the thing where women wake up and step out of the shower fully made up, and unless you want to come up with some kind of strained bullshit handwave in fic for why women in this reality have tattooed makeup and/or they found a makeup kit in the ruins of the post-apocalyptic bunker, you just handwave it as "fiction reality" and write the version in which they wake up looking like most women do when they wake up.
I think I also don't have too much trouble mentally working around, for example, budget restrictions where it's obvious that some kind of ridiculous effect made out of tinfoil and a 9V battery and hope, in the world of the show, "really" looks much better than the f/x were able to convey. Or the 8 people and a shoelace who obviously WOULD have been an entire town if they'd been able to afford it. Even in shows with really great production effects, they tend not to show things like, say, the characters exercising and practicing for 6 hours a day to have the knife-throwing and acrobatics skills that they would need in order to do their thing at the climax.
I mean, I think even people who don't really think of themselves as doing any of this are doing at least SOME of this because on some level cinema-reality runs on its own set of absurd conventions just the same as theater-reality does.
But I think for me the characterization and actual events of the show are the hardest to work around without going completely AU -- like, I don't have much trouble handwaving some makeup/cardboard-set issues and laughing at them without it breaking my suspension of disbelief, but what I do have trouble actively tossing out the window are actual show events and/or stated canon. And I do like to closely analyze canon and try to pick out the "actual" version of events/characterization as closely as I can. And deviating from that tends to take me into AU territory. But there's also a certain level of "welp, of course that's what it's going to be, because XYZ real reason." So I guess I fall in the middle. But this does make sense to me!
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I think the way I conceptualize it personally is that I'm constantly editing and revising pretty much anything in my head as I watch it. There's really nothing that doesn't require SOME mental editing to get from TV-reality to fictional-reality - for example, even really excellent canons usually have the thing where women wake up and step out of the shower fully made up, and unless you want to come up with some kind of strained bullshit handwave in fic for why women in this reality have tattooed makeup and/or they found a makeup kit in the ruins of the post-apocalyptic bunker, you just handwave it as "fiction reality" and write the version in which they wake up looking like most women do when they wake up.
I think I also don't have too much trouble mentally working around, for example, budget restrictions where it's obvious that some kind of ridiculous effect made out of tinfoil and a 9V battery and hope, in the world of the show, "really" looks much better than the f/x were able to convey. Or the 8 people and a shoelace who obviously WOULD have been an entire town if they'd been able to afford it. Even in shows with really great production effects, they tend not to show things like, say, the characters exercising and practicing for 6 hours a day to have the knife-throwing and acrobatics skills that they would need in order to do their thing at the climax.
I mean, I think even people who don't really think of themselves as doing any of this are doing at least SOME of this because on some level cinema-reality runs on its own set of absurd conventions just the same as theater-reality does.
But I think for me the characterization and actual events of the show are the hardest to work around without going completely AU -- like, I don't have much trouble handwaving some makeup/cardboard-set issues and laughing at them without it breaking my suspension of disbelief, but what I do have trouble actively tossing out the window are actual show events and/or stated canon. And I do like to closely analyze canon and try to pick out the "actual" version of events/characterization as closely as I can. And deviating from that tends to take me into AU territory. But there's also a certain level of "welp, of course that's what it's going to be, because XYZ real reason." So I guess I fall in the middle. But this does make sense to me!