Well, and I have such a messy relationship with narrative conflict, at that. I admit that over my years of being a cantankerous navel-gazer in public spaces, I’ve maybe come around to acknowledging that stories do need conflict in order to have an arc, but… I still don’t like high conflict, and I have perhaps been sensitive to the tendency to dismiss low-stakes conflicts as not being conflict at all. It’s a matter of precision, I suppose.
It still feels daring to disregard a new thing: a new piece of canon, content in a new-to-me canon, etc. There is such an undercurrent of reverence for canon! It is the thing which binds us all together as fans of a property, after all. I get over it and write what I want anyway, but I’m not sure I’ve found the solution to avoiding doubt.
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Date: 2023-06-23 04:51 pm (UTC)Well, and I have such a messy relationship with narrative conflict, at that. I admit that over my years of being a cantankerous navel-gazer in public spaces, I’ve maybe come around to acknowledging that stories do need conflict in order to have an arc, but… I still don’t like high conflict, and I have perhaps been sensitive to the tendency to dismiss low-stakes conflicts as not being conflict at all. It’s a matter of precision, I suppose.
It still feels daring to disregard a new thing: a new piece of canon, content in a new-to-me canon, etc. There is such an undercurrent of reverence for canon! It is the thing which binds us all together as fans of a property, after all. I get over it and write what I want anyway, but I’m not sure I’ve found the solution to avoiding doubt.