> revelations on Twitter or social media or interviews. The first is that other creators do it all the time.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Being part of the Star Wars fandom, I don't see *anyone* objecting to, for instance, treating the script as canon
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So, we know that Rey resists the Dark Side, rather than gives in, in the final episode 7 duel, because Abrams said so.
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Rowling is often pointing out how she officially interprets her own texts. Sometimes she admits she hasn't thought about something
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For example, she's on record as having No Opinion about Voldemort's sex life beyond that he managed to make a baby once
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The second thing is, the first and still most famous Rowling Retcon addressed a huge toxicity in fandom
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Now, I fault Rowling for not actually revealing that Dumbledore was gay in the books,although I'm pretty sure editorial pressure contributed
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But before she made that explicit, there was a huge and vocal homophobe contingent that made stupid arguments >
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> like "this story with torture and het sex and murder and more torture is FOR KIDS, there's no homosexuals"
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A major pre-social media HP forum banned all slashfic while permitting somewhat graphic het fic, in the pre book 7 era
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Yeah I hate to say "I feel old" abt this stuff bc it was just like 5 years ago
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But it used to be a defensible take to say "Well of course SWTOR will keep LGBT content segregated, that's just the nature of the market"
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Yeah I mean I don't want to conclusively give Rowling credit because she could see where the wind was blowing BUT
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