Parallel to death of the author, I propose the term monofantheism, which is when fans get so enraged at a creator’s refusal to legitimate a particular headcanon that they forget having a plurality of headcanons is the *point* of fandom & declare the creator unfit to keep canon.
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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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