Poll: New Fics Using Old Canon
Aug. 3rd, 2006 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kennahijjaI've been thinking about the advantages/disadvantages of writing stories with 'old canon' lately. With that, I mean stories that ignore either whole books (like HBP) or certain events in canon (the death of Sirius, for example), not older stories written before said new canon came out.
I see them occasionally, and don't mind reading them, but have the impression that they are rather frowned upon in fandom. Which, in a way, is understandable, since new canon means tons of new details to incorporate, new situations to explore, and writing in an 'old' context smacks of laziness or resentment against new canon developments. Or does it? Since I'm sitting on an *old* plot right this moment and am tempted to forget that the strange animal called HBP ever showed up in its context, I'd be curious about what 'public opinion' is on this. Hence, poll :).
That said, I really want honest opinions, not reassurance - my decision on said plot will be totally uninfluenced by the outcome of this. If I was going for what's popular, I'd not try to carry the candle for Ron/Lucius ;).
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I see them occasionally, and don't mind reading them, but have the impression that they are rather frowned upon in fandom. Which, in a way, is understandable, since new canon means tons of new details to incorporate, new situations to explore, and writing in an 'old' context smacks of laziness or resentment against new canon developments. Or does it? Since I'm sitting on an *old* plot right this moment and am tempted to forget that the strange animal called HBP ever showed up in its context, I'd be curious about what 'public opinion' is on this. Hence, poll :).
That said, I really want honest opinions, not reassurance - my decision on said plot will be totally uninfluenced by the outcome of this. If I was going for what's popular, I'd not try to carry the candle for Ron/Lucius ;).
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Date: 2006-08-04 05:56 pm (UTC)Not at all - what I meant is that they negated older *fanfic*. New as in 'more recent canon', although I'd say it *is* new, not just enlarged, as it's a progress in time, too.
I think you've nailed down the two reasons why 'old canon' fics are still written - either because the writers dislike the developments in the current book(s), or because someone started a fic a long time ago and still wants to write/finish it (*whistles innocently*). Or - I did wonder about that because it seems to happen a lot in slash/smut - in order to pull off a pairing which has run into canonical trouble. I guess it's possible to write, for example, Sirius alive after OotP not so much as a protest against canon, but to write Sirius. On second thought, that might not just apply to shipfic...