ive spoken about this before i think but i always find it really weird how there are such large portions of like… general fandom on tumblr prides itself on being really, really, good at thinking critically about fictional media, especially through a social/political lens… but then will turn around and act like there’s no crime worse than testing the internal limits set up by that media and that anyone who ‘violates’ whatever canon code a work has needs to be banned from participating in that fandom and it’s really silly and contradictory. how do u criticize the flaws of a work and at the same time act like the very cause of those flaws is sacrosanct and cant be Blatantly Contradicted ever, even in cases where the canon in question… really needs to be contradicted, because canon does not write itself and often has all of the same biases as its creator. & its not like i’m describing two different camps as if theyre all the same people - ive seen people be like “well i KNOW the canon/lore/writing/etc is ~problematic~ but that’s NO excuse for having headcanons that completely disregard it!!” and like. why. why is that no excuse? why is it more excusable for a work to be openly misogynistic or racist or transphobic or otherwise bigoted than it is for someone to consciously try to overwrite those aspects of a work that they otherwise enjoy? how does that even make sense on a basic level

basically what im saying is please chill the fuck out about perceived slights against imaginary and more often than not heavily flawed canons for the sole reason that they’re inaccurate, it’s really not worth the energy and is just generally unpleasant and unproductive for everyone involved u absolute pedantic nerds