How exactly does fanon or headcanon differ from interpretation? I'm not trolling, though it may sound like it, but most art is open to multiple interpretations regardless of authorial intent, so if I choose to adopt a popular theory on an ambiguous ends of a game or movie or something, where is the line between delusion and artistic interpretation?
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The difference is that while interpretation normally only deals directly with the events of canon works themselves, fanon and headcanon can often go beyond that. For example, someone could write a really popular fanfiction which some fans choose to include in their own personal headcanon, making it effectively canon in their own mind. And if enough fans adopt a particular idea or story into their headcanon, it becomes "fanon", meaning there's a general belief among fans that that particular idea is or should be part of canon.
If an idea is fanon you'll probably see it portrayed as a canonical part of the story's universe across many different fan works created by hundreds of different authors, even if that fanon idea isn't the focus of the story.
Because it's an Audience Reaction, therefore YMMV.
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Would anyone mind if I did a broad culling of the "Harry Potter" example in the "Literature" section? There's tons of crap in there that isn't so much fanon as it is "fanfiction writers pretending that their interpretations are real".
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It's done. A lot of the examples were basically "this seems to appear in fanfiction" and "this is what some fans prefer over the actual thing".
Wait. Isn't "fanfiction writers pretending that their interpretations are real" practically a dictionary definition of fanon? Would someone mind explaining the difference?
Yes and no. Fanon simply means "information not explicitly canon that is generally accepted as such by the fans".
- Fanon: The horns of the Homestuck trolls functioning as ero zones*
- "Fanfic writers who pretend their interpretations are real": Draco in Leather Pants, Ron the Death Eater
Is there a specific trope for fanon that is included in, say, a fanfic, but makes a sort of Continuity Nod explaining how it became fanon...ugh, I have an example of it, too...
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Would anyone object to the creation of actual fanon sections for the works pages, e.g., Fanon /Harry Potter?
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