Heads up!

minisinoo has a poll up here about fanfiction which ignores current canon in favor of previous canon (as a subset of fanfiction); given the number of people here who engage in resfic and other forms of denial, I thought I'd point it out.

(no subject)

Minisinoo's poll on current and old canon in fanfic writing (look, go read the poll, it will make sense) got me thinking about different ways of ignoring canon. I thought I'd write about them here rather than wibble on about the X-Files in her journal.

( denial fic and fix-it fic )

( closed canon and my crazy problems )

The point, I think, is that there's a difference between stories in which the author denies that acanonical event took place, and stories in which an author decides to try to fix a canonical event (usually something she doesn't like); in addition, an author can simply choose to set a story earlier than the current timeline. Each of these is doing something rather different with regard to canon, I think. And I have a distinct weakness for fix-it stories.