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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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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THIS!!! "Creator A is xphobic because they didn't canonize my threadbare idea of character being x!" lets actual bullshit fly under the radar for a long time (see: JK Rowling)
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Genuine question: what if the author doesn't explicitly say anything homophobic, but the source material has an explicit track record of queerbaiting the character in question?
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See, I'd argue this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what queerbaiting *is*. Source material *on its own* cannot queerbait - this is an explicit action undertaken by creators, wherein they promise to include queerness and then don't. The term is very misapplied right now.
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