Snowflake Challenge, Day 5

[alisanne]

Day 5

Recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So I've seen a couple of people do this, and since I wholeheartedly agree, I'm doing it, too. :P

CANON!

Whatever fandom universe in which you create, please KNOW YOUR CANON.
Now, I reserve the right to mess with canon as suits my mood, but I know Harry Potter, so I can do that. And you can do it, too, but you gotta know what's real and what's not.
Also, for Harry Potter, as far as I'm concerned, canon is THE BOOKS.
Not Cursed Child, not the movies, not even Pottermore (although I do use things I like from those sources, which I reserve the right to do because, say it with me, I know canon).
I admit, I will sometimes torture ask the people I'm in slashchat with a question, but they know canon, too. *g*

Also, if it's not in canon, I consult Google. Google knows things. ;)

Comments

[titti]

What is this slashchat you speak of?

[alisanne]

A bunch of us chat on IM, generally it's just babbling, but we sometimes word war.
It used to be several people but now it's just me, lilyseyes, and torino10154.

[titti]

Ah, I used to have a few chats on AIM but that's GONE. I remember drabble chats and all sorts of prompts chats back in the days.

[smallhobbit]

I'm interested in your thoughts regarding Cursed Child as not canon. Having seen it I would certainly take it as one possible canon extension. Particularly the portrayal of Scorpius Malfoy, although that probably has as much to do with the ability of the actor as to the plot.

[alisanne]

So I admit, I am biased just based on what I've heard of it. It honestly sounds like bad fanfic to me. :)
It's possible I'd feel differently if I liked the story, but I doubt it. After all, I like the movies, but the books always and forever remain canon, IMO.
Since I have seen people write HP fanfic and say in their notes they've never read the books or even seen the movies, and claim their stories are based on other fanfic, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that people at least read the source material before playing in the sandbox.

[smallhobbit]

But, at the risk of being cast out into outer darkness, aren't some of the elements of the later HP books a form of fanfic of the earlier ones? (If you're interested, my play review is here with some added thoughts in my response to the comments.) I liked the main plot, and I certainly liked the connection between Scorpius and Albus.

I do understand about the need to read the source material - I'm in the ACD (book-verse) Sherlock Holmes fandom and we have similar problems.

I did once write a SGA ficlet, when I've never seen the series. It was the equivalent of a muggle mother writing to their child who's just started at Hogwarts, so knowledge is patchy and dodgy in parts. In my case I also had Brumeier read it through.

[alisanne]

Yes, I will give you that.
I often find myself wishing she could have finished the series before she hit it big. Something tells me the series would have ended differently.

I will check out your play review, and I even hope to see it one day, but I still don't consider it canon.
Just the books. :)

Ha! All I know about SGA is from Bru's writing, so yeah, I understand where you're coming from there. And a drabble is understandable. But it wasn't a multi-chaptered fic!

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but when intoabar used to be running, I'd end up having to write characters from fandoms other than HP, and I would always rewatch or reread the source material before attempting to write my crossover because I really try to be authentic when I write. I think if you're gonna call it XYZ fandom, you need to be familiar with that fandom.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Hee, canon is the best. I always try to refresh myself with canon. :D

[alisanne]

Smart lady! :)