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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Y e p. It's very strange how so many fans have kinda lost sight of what headcanons (& ultimately fandom as a whole) was for, namely, a space for all the things we'd have loved to see but which won't be canon. A headcanon is literally the opposite of canon.
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And I'm a little confused as to why we've stopped appreciating headcanons, in the original meaning of the word, and the fannish creativity they represent. But I guess it is due to a lot of fans being young & not having experience with older fandom culture, where (1/2)
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