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mist-the-wannabe-linguist · 2 months ago

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as someone who has most of my dragon-related fandom experience in dragonriders of pern, which necessarily has a complex relationship with its author, i would like to lean on your thoughts for a question on a different dragon media.

does the eragon fandom have meta about what counts as canon? ex. from interviews, from the illustrated guidebook, and so on. does it have a history of interpretation?

im gonna be honest I was never in the Eragon fandom, I've read the books when I was too young to have internet access and now only returned to Eragon after learning that my friend has read it too, so my "fandom" is really just the two of us brainrotting about it together and posting our thoughts on tumblr

#I have no idea what the fandom is doing and to be perfectly honest I don't care #I remember there was the website shurtugal.com which was the biggest fandom hub but it's now defunct #and ik there's a subreddit and that paolini is posting on twitter #but as for my friend and I we generally just. see chris's later additions to the lore as soft canon #and I don't believe either of us has read any more recent additions to the universe after Inheritance #and neither of us really has the time or energy to do so. so we're sticking to the OG four books and making our own worldbuilding and ocs #eragon #inheritance cycle #fandom culture in general wasn't really a thing in czech republic until recently #our country is small so you naturally won't have as much media variety on the native scene #and stuff like cons only started coming here after the fall of the iron curtain #after a quick search it seems that the oldest cons (StarGate; Red Dwarf and anime) in Czech republic started in the early 2000s #and since most of the popular media is American you can imagine the chance of having any interaction with the author is extremely low #so there wasn't really a way to connect with other people over a piece of media except the internet (that is if you could speak English)#or any local meetings if you were lucky. and I believe Eragon never became so popular as to have those here

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