Listen: once upon a time, you couldn't just hit up the creator of your fave thing on twitter and ask them for extra details about the thing they made! And it's super cool that this can happen now - but only when people aren't dicks about it! Which includes both creators AND fans-
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- but not in the way some fans seem to think, where a creator refusing to endorse their fave interpretation - for the simple reason that doing so *sets it above other fan interpretations and alienates fans who feel differently* - is a sign that The Creator Is Hostile To Fandom.
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So now you've got creators trying to engage with fans from all different perspectives on a good faith basis, only there's fans explicitly looking to take any comments they make in *bad* faith, because it's Not The Right Take, and if they didn't get THEIR answer, no one can!
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A common example of this is conflating a brief response made to a single individual with a blanket, all-encompassing take on a related topic. For instance: Creator says they didn't write Character X as gay, therefore Creator is a homophobe! Like I'm just. YOU GUYS.
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Unless that statement is followed up by some Actual Homophobic Bullshit (TM) such as "this sort of character can never be gay" or "being gay is bad", all you're doing is making a deliberately bad faith leap based on a perfectly neutral - and factual! - statement.
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Just. I am So Tired of seeing people wax lyrical about the transformative power of fannish imagination in one breath, and then SCREAMING in the next that If My Ship Isn't Confirmed As Canon Signed In Triplicate The Creators Must Hate All Queer People And Especially Me Personally.
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I was always fascinated by the line from Barthes’ dictum to the declaration that the author specifically knows less of the work than anyone else, as if part of writing were not a deep, repeated, obsessive reading.
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Death of the author was taking too long so we assassinated 'em
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Well, some of you *tried.*

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I support this neologism. And am also for some reason imagining its adherents holding a seance to argue with Barthes?
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