luke fon fabre is real i saw him last week

Tangled in nightshade you’ll find me

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

Do not confuse your unique creation with the absence of life

[Image description: Digital drawing of Ryoji and the Male MC from Persona 3, styled to look like screencaps. Ryoji stands in front of Male MC's dorm windows and smiles sadly, placing a hand on his chest. He says, "This was not life, just a husk shaped to act as human." Cut to Male MC standing by the door and staring as Ryoji as he continues, "Yours was life." End description]

[Plain text: (inspiration under the cut). End plain text.]

[Image description: screencaps of a conversation in Hollow Knight: Silksong. Lace: Life? You're too generous! This weak, wasting existence. This was not life, just a husk shaped to act as a child.

Hornet: Yours was life, pale one. Do not confuse your unique creation with its absence. I have seen others make the same mistake. End description.] (By quailfence)

(inspiration under the cut)