#pro fandom

AUs or setting shifts? Cringe, might as well just make OCs at that point. Fix-It fics? Disrespectful to the author's vision and a sign of lacking media literacy. Fluff or lighter than canon? Self-indulgent rot, go outside. Anything darker than canon? Whoa, calm down edgelord. Shipping? You'd BETTER be prepared to defend your thesis using several examples from the canon text and even then you're on thin fucking ice. It's "he would not fucking say that" but there are 5 different mutually incompatible and hotly debated views about what he Would Fucking Say or not.

There's just so much pettiness and entitlement surrounding writing and art people are sharing with you for exactly zero dollars on this site, it drives me up the wall. If you want only things that are entirely compatible with canon with exactly zero deviations canon itself is *right there*. Or better yet, if that's the only thing you want to see, write it yourself and accept works that aren't to your liking are always going to exist.