#or maybe gre3n lantern

[radioactive-earthshine]

I am still so perplexed by the fanon argument and belief that it is 'no different from canon's inconsistencies' when the driving thing about fanon is that it is based on things that never happened at all. It's not even an inconstancy in most cases - it's a direct lie. It's not even headcanons or an interpretation of the source material at this point.

Much of fanon is not even making a mosaic of different elements across media (picking and choosing things to accept or reject, which most fans to do personal enjoyment), it's taking one element and inflating it and declaring that it happened everywhere else with such confidence it convinces new fans that even in the comics Bart Allen says "crash" when it was exclusive to the animation.

IDK maybe I am putting more faith in the broad ability to engage in media with compartmentalization.

My friends who do engage in only fanon are a little confused too but they're honest that they just like the fanon part of fandom better and it makes them feel better, which I cannot argue against - you do fandom the way you want, but they do agree that the Bad Dad Clark thing and UwU Bart is offensive as hell, and generally bat-propping over other characters is also just.... they don't understand why other people need to to do it.

You cannot make a transformative work fairly out of something unless you know what you are transforming.