there's deviating from canon because you don't remember details and can't be bothered checking, and there's deviating from canon because you think you can create something more interesting if you don't stick too closely to what's on the page. The former is irritating; the latter can be very cool.
Actually, though I think of myself as the traditional "fangirl"-type fan (all about the hurt/comfort and rabid OTP-shipping and specific-character-based-squee and the ZOMG, Gambit&Rogue'sloveissotrue), the latter example would also irritate me, unless the writer specifically designated the fic AU (and even then, if characterization is different, I'll usually bail). I literally cannot read Ultimates because the pod-people pretending to be Tony Stark and Jan Van Dyne are so obviously not based on 616 canon.
Though, with the bipolar Northstar, I think you can make a good case from canon details (and the fact Aurora is clearly mentally ill, and mood disorders run in families). But that's extrapolating from canon, not randomly making stuff up because you want to write a story about X, regardless of whether it makes sense with canon or not. Something that is in no way rampant in SGA slash fandom. Not at all.
I'd argue the notion that keeping religious track of canon statistics, etc. is a specifically male trait, though, anymore than shipping is a female one. I know more than one male fan with an OTP, and on the Iron Man message boards my fiancee hangs out on, she often knows more canon detail than the guys.
Though with both of us as a test sample, you could make a case for canonwhoredom as an Aspergers trait.
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Date: 2007-08-29 06:04 am (UTC)Actually, though I think of myself as the traditional "fangirl"-type fan (all about the hurt/comfort and rabid OTP-shipping and specific-character-based-squee and the ZOMG, Gambit&Rogue'sloveissotrue), the latter example would also irritate me, unless the writer specifically designated the fic AU (and even then, if characterization is different, I'll usually bail). I literally cannot read Ultimates because the pod-people pretending to be Tony Stark and Jan Van Dyne are so obviously not based on 616 canon.
Though, with the bipolar Northstar, I think you can make a good case from canon details (and the fact Aurora is clearly mentally ill, and mood disorders run in families). But that's extrapolating from canon, not randomly making stuff up because you want to write a story about X, regardless of whether it makes sense with canon or not.
Something that is in no way rampant in SGA slash fandom. Not at all.I'd argue the notion that keeping religious track of canon statistics, etc. is a specifically male trait, though, anymore than shipping is a female one. I know more than one male fan with an OTP, and on the Iron Man message boards my fiancee hangs out on, she often knows more canon detail than the guys.
Though with both of us as a test sample, you could make a case for canonwhoredom as an Aspergers trait.