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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drink beer smoke weed hail satan
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Do you think to some degree this runs parallel to the "depiction = approval" crowd? Not to say that things *can't* be troubling or problematic ofc but some people seen to be very eager to do this in (apparent) bad faith
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I think there's probably some overlap, just in terms of both bad and bad faith analysis: the former where people can't distinguish between depiction and endorsement, and the latter where they decide to conflate the two to support a specific argument.
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I generally agree on this, though what about circumstances where a creator has been queerbaiting the audience/readers to attract them to their story but then never follow through? Or even mock the fans for hoping it would become canon?
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Queerbaiting & mockery are both dick moves; however, I’ve also seen creators accused of queerbaiting just because *a preferred fan ship* wasn’t canon, even though the work itself contains other canon queer characters, or where network pressure nixed a planned pairing.
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My dude, you are doing some great work in this thread but you are giving it away on Twitter. If you made your wording more pretentious, called it Death of Fanbase, & shopped it to journals as an updated response to Death of Author, you, too, could be a literary theory legend.
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THIS THREAD IS SO AMAZING AND IM FOLLOWING YOH IMMEDIATELY
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Is this on Tumblr because I need to reblog it there too
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you can say Neil, it's ok
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This thread made my fannish day.
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