How does Fanon Discontinuity work?

From what i gather, a useful tool that a fanfiction writer can use is writing things that don't work for them out of the continuity for their story. But i have to ask, how does it really work?

On one hand, it does feel like an ace in the hole for a fan-writer. But on the other hand, it also feels like being in denial.

Largely, it doesn't, as people use it to write off things they don't like rather than things that are truly problematic.

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In many scenarios it just means the fanfiction author is butthurt that the actual author didn't cater to them.

Fanfiction I hate.

I don't like that. If a fan fiction writer hates a certain part of canon, then just don't include it in the story. You don't have to say it didn't happen. Just don't explicitly use it in the story. Set the story somewhere unaffected by those events, or if you really want to remove some major world altering event, throw in some time travel. Heck, look at how many legit ways comic book writers have found to remove events: time travel, deals with the devil, more time travel, etc.

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Agreed. I've seen fanfics that said "the sequel didn't happen" when not bringing up the events of said sequel would have sufficed.

I dunno as bad as this Fanon Discontinuity thing is. Trying to make your fic fit a sequel when its just easier to declare AU is even more annoying.

Im looking at YOU LUNA GOLDSUN.

Or it could be installments that no one likes like One More Day, Nadesco The Prince of Darkness, Gundam SEED Destiny or Frozen Teardrop.

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Well, if you wanna get down to it, One More Day is Fanon Discontinuity meets Running the Asylum.

Fanfiction I hate.

IMPORTANT SPOILER:

Even canonical events didn't really ever happen. Seriously!

So don't worry too much about it either way. It's still important to remain true to the original's spirit and esence, though, or you can end up in an In Name Only situation.

edited 4th Jul '14 8:19:02 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Well, and there's even one Nintendo fanfic that goes so far as to completely realistic. The guy managed to do it without relating to anything else at all, other than the characters themselves. Now that is decent fanon discontinuity.

When it comes down to it, however, most writers will omit these works not because they're discontinuity to them but because they will chose to work with what came before them, in effect creating an divergent AU.

I personally try to work with elements of the canon that I think are stupid or inconvenient where possible. (I'm working in some parts of Frozen Teardrop to a story draft written well before it existed, though only those that don't disrupt it overly much. Glory of Losers not so much; but I'd have to be familiar with it to do so and that's unlikely to happen.)

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I actually like Prince of Darkness a lot (but then, I also didn't much care for the last third of the series itself), and I also like SEED Destiny as well. At least, what I've seen of it.