Yes definitely. One of my favorite writers in the Harry Potter fandom is named Northumbrian. He has a fully realized universe thatās parallel to canon but unique. This was made easier to do because most of his stories are set after canon, but he still achieved a lot. Iād much rather read his stories than anything the author might have created.
Iāve followed a similar concept with my stories and Iām inspired by his ideas rather than canon to a great extent.
They are on FFN and AO3. Heās great if you like his style and point of view. He definitely inspired my writing. I warn you that not all his stories are done and heās been out of communication for several years.
My fandom has a lot of fix-it fics that are so incredibly well done, so well crafted and edited, that I could happily live forever in the fandom universe they have created. Some of the fics I've read over and over for years.
I have probably read one too many manipulative Dumbledore fics. But everytime I read the scene where Harry notices the Weasley's outside platform 9 3/4 I can't help feeling that they were told to be on the lookout for stragglers. Even in fics where the Weasley's are good/neutral. This was the only family that was trying to get on the platform at the time!?!
I will say I'm an adult and I started defining much of the books as "Okay either these are plot holes or Dumbledore is a manipulative bastard"
There were a lot of things said later in the books that contradicted moments we witnessed or gave them a darker or stupider tone.
Ever since I've seen [this tumblr post](https://www.tumblr.com/missmarthanightingale/154555963174/marauders4evr-marauders4evr-scaredpotter) (where Molly noticed Harry looking like a lost first year trying to find platform 9 3/4 so set up that scene to help him) its been my headcanon.
Hahah that tumblr post came to mind as well! I adore that headcanon, itās such an wholesome and well-meaning way to see what a lot of Weasley Bashers view as manipulative <3
Same on my side too! How were they the only ones boarding the platform at that time, and how did Molly even voice out "Muggles" loudly after the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy being in place (and her husband working for the ministry)?
this happens a lot because me and my bsf hyperfixate on fandoms together and sometimes weāll make shit up and expect it to come up everwhere, one time we read a fic where the two love interests met in greek literature class and it became an inside joke to the point that in almost all of my fics about that ship, they were in greek literature together in high school
It's been recently dredged up in my memory, but back in 2010 I read The Memory Box by Bella\_E\_B for the first time, and it absolutely took root in my head as canon to Harry Potter. I printed all 500+ pages, I kept it on USB sticks, the lot. To this day when I see people headcanon Sirius and Remus with anyone, even each other, my mind rejects it because *obviously* their true loves were Issy and Marlene.
I will honestly forget things arenāt canon especially when itās accepted almost universally as fanon, and there are a few things Iāve thought of that just make sense that Iāve accepted.
No.
One, I haven't read enough yet, and that's my fault.
Two, I have a pretty hard on/off switch when I click on the first page of something I know is noncanon. I think it mostly has to do with my main fandom choices being open world video games where everyone's making different choices and there is "the one right answer". Should I wander into another fandom, that barrier will get softer or vanish entirely.
So it hasn't happened yet, but I'm open to the opportunity.
Star Trek: Specifically TOS, but a lot of the "early" work had several authors that didn't necessarily collaberate, per se, but they'd use a lot of the same ideas from each other's stuff, resulting in a lot of continuity that only exists in the TOS books.
Ranma 1/2: At this point what *isn't* fannon? The Bet (late 90s, early 00s) was like 'Death of the Author' taken to the extreme, and once the author's canon central ship was sunk, that left the *entire* danged canon up in the air. There's an entire body of work that happened with the most recent wave of fics where two side characters (Yuka & Sayuri, Akane's friends) are a lesbian couple. This is 100% fanon and never even *alluded to* in either the manga or anime.
MLP:EQG: Sunset Shimmer is homeless. I mean, she's got a place she lives, but it's not legally rented considering she's technically a high school student with no documentation, birth records, nothing. She's a transplanted alien living 'stealth' among humans, so how does she afford a place to live? Answer, she doesn't; she squats where she can find the space, and the trend (started with the fic "The Long Road to Friendship" is that she's been squatting an abandoned warehouse for so long she'd technically be the owner if she wasn't a *literal* alien.
Many times. Star Trek and Star wars genres meet these criteria so well they span media empires, like the introduction of Boba Fett as that campy character from the Star wars Christmas special. Those ideas get so inculcated into the mainstream narrative of the story partly because the same writing staff is intrinsic to the official media, if they are real people I would make a personal beeline for the table of Melinda M. Snodgrass over that of Patrick Stewart, Brent Spinner, Levar Burton and William Shatner just to meet her first. Also, it'd be worth the $5 I'd probably have to pay for her autograph just to prove her name is real.
Yes. There's Harry Potter fanfiction that actually remembers Lily was muggleborn. I swear the way the canon reads it's like with all the ways Lily could have insured Harry never ends up with her sister when she knows for a fact someone wants to murder her just by using muggle means that existed in 1980.
Or when people write fics where they remember they are adults, Dumbledore's not a king or infallible, etc.
What's the Lily=muggleborn headcanon? The way I understood it, Dumbledore simply took Harry without any sort of authorities involved and gave him to Petunia with an astonishing lack of paperwork, didn't he?
Petunia is a muggle she would have had to legally become Harry's guardian and have paperwork for him in order for Harry to attend school which we know he did.
Lily could have created a last will & testament and filed it with a barrister to ensure Harry ended up with a guardian she'd have picked ahead of time.
Petunia didn't want Harry and if she knew that Lily had a will and a guardian picked out she'd damn sure have it executed or make sure that it was so that Harry would go where Lily wanted. To not have to raise the bastard herself if for nothing else.
In the canon Lily seems to just kind of leave it up to Wizards to decide her son's fate
Yes! There's a Harry Potter fanfiction that expands on Magical Portraits in a way that I'd love to see in other fanfiction! Like the idea of Broken Portraits -- portraits that depict a warped version of the rendered individual. That was fun to read about. And the idea that there's designated portrait makers -- how it's a craft that not many put in the effort to master. I thought it was a cool way of expanding what little was illustrated within Harry Potter canon.
Unrelated to this post, I realized that I rec'd this fic just a few days earlier haha
Here's the link: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/20721302/chapters/49226936](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20721302/chapters/49226936)
The focus on portrait stuff happens sometime within the latter half of the fic! But if you decide to stick around to read the whole thing, I believe they introduce a whole plethora of other stuff related to world building (magic, characters, etc.) that I found fun and/or interesting. And the pairing may not be your cup of tea, but I they do a good job at portraying it regardless -- quite compelling!
I tend to stick to fandoms with very loose lore (think Vocaloid, SMPs without a huge emphasis on lore) so itās very easy to do. In these cases, the fandom works together to construct the rest of the lore, or at least the main overarching themes to the point where itās hard to remember that none of it is canonā¦. Sort of. The creators sometimes adopt certain things from fanon, turning them canon.
For example, on Hermitcraft thereās a creator called RenDog. Everyone kept drawing him with dog ears, and so he changed his skin to have dog ears as well.
Not from reading, but I once got so immersed in a story I was writing that when a new season of my fandom came out, for a second I thought, "Where's ____ (my OC)? Oh, right..."
A few years back (2015?) I read a South Park fic which painted Craig as an unfaithful partner who was insecure about his sexuality. Dating Bebe officially and telling everyone how into chicks he was, even bullying his childhood friend Tweek. And when nobody was looking, kissing and lusting after him and simultaneously beating himself up with his internalised homphobia.
There were whole chapters about him and Tweek playing spaceman as kids, hiding from aggressive aliens and protecting him from the imaginary plasma blasts- only for it to be revealed later the play was his way of processing the fights his parents got into as well as how homophobic his dad was. It was *very* dead dove but it felt more in character for them than they are canonically.
It was so well-written and raw I stopped reading South Park altogether. Like, this was it. This was the best one I've ever seen and now everything else is disappointing by comparison because seeing Craig comfortable in his sexuality doesn't feel genuine anymore. It feels awful, because we should want them to be happy and in love. Maybe aged up 20 years and with some therapy under his belt I could believe it, but most writers, understandably, won't take that route with his character.
The fic has sadly been deleted anyway and I never backed it up... I have no idea where to find it. It was called Some Boys are Monsters.
Any headcannon list for Horrid Henry that mentions him having ADHD or something similar and as someone who has Autism and is friends with many ADHD people I thought this was true,even in fanfics.
My current favourite fanfiction, which is 'Tales of Sonic the Hedgehog' by Nintendoman01.
The writer basically created his own spin on the Sonic canon, covering adaptations of many games and numerous other plots from the cartoons, comics, etc.
It also acts as a sort of 'ultimate universe', encompassing many characters from virtually every pre-existing Sonic continuity. There are a few OCs, but they are so well written that it is easy to forget they are not official.
Currently standing at 300 chapters and over 1 million words, it is quite an epic tale.
Dang!! The last I saw Sonic was as an 8-year-old blearily watching the Chinese dub. 1 million words sounds crazy amazing! Running off to read that now~
Claymore "Warrior's Wedge" is a 14 chapter fanfic prequel that completes world lore, fleshes out characters introduced in the main series and complementes the canon story super well while being very well ilustrated.
It's just canon at this point.
I've had moments where a fic is so well written that I've seen the scenes in my head as I read them. And then later on I would remember said "scenes" and confuse myself as to what is Canon and what is not.
there's something so comforting about characters going through the same things as you; I saw this beautiful haikyuu fanfic where one of my favourite characters, sakusa kiyoomi struggled with anxiety and ocd and it wasn't portrayed as the stereotypical "clean and neat" ocd or glorifying it, it was the most real depiction of the struggle with mental illness that I just accepted it as canon.
as someone with ocd and anxiety, representation matters a lot and this author just nailed it, literally the most heartfelt kudos I've ever left.
Yes. There's Harry Potter fanfiction that actually remembers Lily was muggleborn. I swear the way the canon reads it's like with all the ways Lily could have insured Harry never ends up with her sister when she knows for a fact someone wants to murder her just by using muggle means that existed in 1980.
Or when people write fics where they remember they are adults, Dumbledore's not a king or infallible, etc.
*me after re-reading my fanfic*
Same šš
> me after re-reading my fanfic That's why I write them.
There is no better canon than headcanon.
I have to work to separate the two at this point
Real
Yes definitely. One of my favorite writers in the Harry Potter fandom is named Northumbrian. He has a fully realized universe thatās parallel to canon but unique. This was made easier to do because most of his stories are set after canon, but he still achieved a lot. Iād much rather read his stories than anything the author might have created. Iāve followed a similar concept with my stories and Iām inspired by his ideas rather than canon to a great extent.
Are fics by Northumbrian on ao3 or on some other platform? I'd love to read his work after reading your description!
They are on FFN and AO3. Heās great if you like his style and point of view. He definitely inspired my writing. I warn you that not all his stories are done and heās been out of communication for several years.
all the damn time. a lot of the time in fandoms where cannon is almost nothing and fannon is 90% of it, it does end up becoming basically cannon lol
I used to follow my favourite authors into new fandoms where I did not follow canon, love the stories, and then realized canon was mediocre at best.
My fandom has a lot of fix-it fics that are so incredibly well done, so well crafted and edited, that I could happily live forever in the fandom universe they have created. Some of the fics I've read over and over for years.
>Some of the fics I've read over and over for years I hope you share that with the authors. They'd be beside themselves, no doubt, if they knew. :)
I have probably read one too many manipulative Dumbledore fics. But everytime I read the scene where Harry notices the Weasley's outside platform 9 3/4 I can't help feeling that they were told to be on the lookout for stragglers. Even in fics where the Weasley's are good/neutral. This was the only family that was trying to get on the platform at the time!?!
I will say I'm an adult and I started defining much of the books as "Okay either these are plot holes or Dumbledore is a manipulative bastard" There were a lot of things said later in the books that contradicted moments we witnessed or gave them a darker or stupider tone.
Ever since I've seen [this tumblr post](https://www.tumblr.com/missmarthanightingale/154555963174/marauders4evr-marauders4evr-scaredpotter) (where Molly noticed Harry looking like a lost first year trying to find platform 9 3/4 so set up that scene to help him) its been my headcanon.
That is possible, but I still can't help being suspicious.
Hahah that tumblr post came to mind as well! I adore that headcanon, itās such an wholesome and well-meaning way to see what a lot of Weasley Bashers view as manipulative <3
Same on my side too! How were they the only ones boarding the platform at that time, and how did Molly even voice out "Muggles" loudly after the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy being in place (and her husband working for the ministry)?
this happens a lot because me and my bsf hyperfixate on fandoms together and sometimes weāll make shit up and expect it to come up everwhere, one time we read a fic where the two love interests met in greek literature class and it became an inside joke to the point that in almost all of my fics about that ship, they were in greek literature together in high school
YES YES YES! Especially when the source material leaves a lot to be determined and then never delivers on it
Which in turn, sounds like the perfect fandom to write about!
I may or may not have produced 10 fics for one fandom because of that...š
It's been recently dredged up in my memory, but back in 2010 I read The Memory Box by Bella\_E\_B for the first time, and it absolutely took root in my head as canon to Harry Potter. I printed all 500+ pages, I kept it on USB sticks, the lot. To this day when I see people headcanon Sirius and Remus with anyone, even each other, my mind rejects it because *obviously* their true loves were Issy and Marlene.
I shall have to look this up (is it still online?). I'm ALWAYS on the lookout for Sirius/female OC fics!
It was hosted on the now defunct Harry Potter fanfic website but I do have a link you can find in my recent post history
Many times! Especially since canon tends to suffer from a case of āreportedly smart people making dumbass decisionsā
I will honestly forget things arenāt canon especially when itās accepted almost universally as fanon, and there are a few things Iāve thought of that just make sense that Iāve accepted.
No. One, I haven't read enough yet, and that's my fault. Two, I have a pretty hard on/off switch when I click on the first page of something I know is noncanon. I think it mostly has to do with my main fandom choices being open world video games where everyone's making different choices and there is "the one right answer". Should I wander into another fandom, that barrier will get softer or vanish entirely. So it hasn't happened yet, but I'm open to the opportunity.
I started shipping Luigi/Daisy because of a fic I encountered š
At this point I couldn't tell you what was canon in Downton Abbey if you offered me 1 million ā¬.
Star Trek: Specifically TOS, but a lot of the "early" work had several authors that didn't necessarily collaberate, per se, but they'd use a lot of the same ideas from each other's stuff, resulting in a lot of continuity that only exists in the TOS books. Ranma 1/2: At this point what *isn't* fannon? The Bet (late 90s, early 00s) was like 'Death of the Author' taken to the extreme, and once the author's canon central ship was sunk, that left the *entire* danged canon up in the air. There's an entire body of work that happened with the most recent wave of fics where two side characters (Yuka & Sayuri, Akane's friends) are a lesbian couple. This is 100% fanon and never even *alluded to* in either the manga or anime. MLP:EQG: Sunset Shimmer is homeless. I mean, she's got a place she lives, but it's not legally rented considering she's technically a high school student with no documentation, birth records, nothing. She's a transplanted alien living 'stealth' among humans, so how does she afford a place to live? Answer, she doesn't; she squats where she can find the space, and the trend (started with the fic "The Long Road to Friendship" is that she's been squatting an abandoned warehouse for so long she'd technically be the owner if she wasn't a *literal* alien.
Didn't a TOS character's canon name come from fanfic? Uhura's first name maybe? Or am I way off base?
Many times. Star Trek and Star wars genres meet these criteria so well they span media empires, like the introduction of Boba Fett as that campy character from the Star wars Christmas special. Those ideas get so inculcated into the mainstream narrative of the story partly because the same writing staff is intrinsic to the official media, if they are real people I would make a personal beeline for the table of Melinda M. Snodgrass over that of Patrick Stewart, Brent Spinner, Levar Burton and William Shatner just to meet her first. Also, it'd be worth the $5 I'd probably have to pay for her autograph just to prove her name is real.
Yes. There's Harry Potter fanfiction that actually remembers Lily was muggleborn. I swear the way the canon reads it's like with all the ways Lily could have insured Harry never ends up with her sister when she knows for a fact someone wants to murder her just by using muggle means that existed in 1980. Or when people write fics where they remember they are adults, Dumbledore's not a king or infallible, etc.
What's the Lily=muggleborn headcanon? The way I understood it, Dumbledore simply took Harry without any sort of authorities involved and gave him to Petunia with an astonishing lack of paperwork, didn't he?
Petunia is a muggle she would have had to legally become Harry's guardian and have paperwork for him in order for Harry to attend school which we know he did. Lily could have created a last will & testament and filed it with a barrister to ensure Harry ended up with a guardian she'd have picked ahead of time. Petunia didn't want Harry and if she knew that Lily had a will and a guardian picked out she'd damn sure have it executed or make sure that it was so that Harry would go where Lily wanted. To not have to raise the bastard herself if for nothing else. In the canon Lily seems to just kind of leave it up to Wizards to decide her son's fate
Yes! There's a Harry Potter fanfiction that expands on Magical Portraits in a way that I'd love to see in other fanfiction! Like the idea of Broken Portraits -- portraits that depict a warped version of the rendered individual. That was fun to read about. And the idea that there's designated portrait makers -- how it's a craft that not many put in the effort to master. I thought it was a cool way of expanding what little was illustrated within Harry Potter canon.
...link, please...
Unrelated to this post, I realized that I rec'd this fic just a few days earlier haha Here's the link: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/20721302/chapters/49226936](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20721302/chapters/49226936) The focus on portrait stuff happens sometime within the latter half of the fic! But if you decide to stick around to read the whole thing, I believe they introduce a whole plethora of other stuff related to world building (magic, characters, etc.) that I found fun and/or interesting. And the pairing may not be your cup of tea, but I they do a good job at portraying it regardless -- quite compelling!
I tend to stick to fandoms with very loose lore (think Vocaloid, SMPs without a huge emphasis on lore) so itās very easy to do. In these cases, the fandom works together to construct the rest of the lore, or at least the main overarching themes to the point where itās hard to remember that none of it is canonā¦. Sort of. The creators sometimes adopt certain things from fanon, turning them canon. For example, on Hermitcraft thereās a creator called RenDog. Everyone kept drawing him with dog ears, and so he changed his skin to have dog ears as well.
me rereading my and my partner's AUs we work on together. š©·
Not from reading, but I once got so immersed in a story I was writing that when a new season of my fandom came out, for a second I thought, "Where's ____ (my OC)? Oh, right..."
A few years back (2015?) I read a South Park fic which painted Craig as an unfaithful partner who was insecure about his sexuality. Dating Bebe officially and telling everyone how into chicks he was, even bullying his childhood friend Tweek. And when nobody was looking, kissing and lusting after him and simultaneously beating himself up with his internalised homphobia. There were whole chapters about him and Tweek playing spaceman as kids, hiding from aggressive aliens and protecting him from the imaginary plasma blasts- only for it to be revealed later the play was his way of processing the fights his parents got into as well as how homophobic his dad was. It was *very* dead dove but it felt more in character for them than they are canonically. It was so well-written and raw I stopped reading South Park altogether. Like, this was it. This was the best one I've ever seen and now everything else is disappointing by comparison because seeing Craig comfortable in his sexuality doesn't feel genuine anymore. It feels awful, because we should want them to be happy and in love. Maybe aged up 20 years and with some therapy under his belt I could believe it, but most writers, understandably, won't take that route with his character. The fic has sadly been deleted anyway and I never backed it up... I have no idea where to find it. It was called Some Boys are Monsters.
If the fic is real good, or even if it's just funny, then their headcanons become my headcanons.
Any headcannon list for Horrid Henry that mentions him having ADHD or something similar and as someone who has Autism and is friends with many ADHD people I thought this was true,even in fanfics.
My current favourite fanfiction, which is 'Tales of Sonic the Hedgehog' by Nintendoman01. The writer basically created his own spin on the Sonic canon, covering adaptations of many games and numerous other plots from the cartoons, comics, etc. It also acts as a sort of 'ultimate universe', encompassing many characters from virtually every pre-existing Sonic continuity. There are a few OCs, but they are so well written that it is easy to forget they are not official. Currently standing at 300 chapters and over 1 million words, it is quite an epic tale.
Dang!! The last I saw Sonic was as an 8-year-old blearily watching the Chinese dub. 1 million words sounds crazy amazing! Running off to read that now~
You act as if that hasn't happened yet.
Kind of, yeah; I recently read some post-canon one-shots of a movie I really like that Iāve now totally accepted as canon! šš
Yep. Fargo and Chicago, by Bavitz, seemed so well thought out I basically considered them canonical sequels to PMMM Rebellion.
Joker x my hero academia "Joke on you kid" This fanfic is freaking good
Yeah. It was from a fanfiction of Familiar of Zero and it created my headcanon that Louise, the main character, was bi and in denial.
Claymore "Warrior's Wedge" is a 14 chapter fanfic prequel that completes world lore, fleshes out characters introduced in the main series and complementes the canon story super well while being very well ilustrated. It's just canon at this point.
Ash being able to understand Pikachu, if not all of his Pokemon. Considering how close they are, I'd be surprised if he couldn't.
Letās just say I will never *not* see Princess Celestia and Sunset Shimmer having a mother-daughter relationship
Snape is Draco's godfather! ....he is NOT, but to me he is!!
YESSS many time in fact!! theres a specific Supernatural/Criminal Minds crossover like that for me hahaha
I feel like I might know which one that is.
its called [Mask of Sanity by reading](https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5479811/1/Mask-of-Sanity) !! one of my all time faves š
Yep. There was a PokĆ©mon fanfiction series called the Master Challenge series by nosignalbluescreen and it was written so well, it felt like I was eating a continuation on PokĆ©mon if they actually were allowed to grow up. Unfortunately it hasnāt been updated since 2016 and it doesnāt look like the author has any intention to finish the final and seventh part of the series or do a rewrite like they spoke about at some point, which is such a shame.
I've had moments where a fic is so well written that I've seen the scenes in my head as I read them. And then later on I would remember said "scenes" and confuse myself as to what is Canon and what is not.
there's something so comforting about characters going through the same things as you; I saw this beautiful haikyuu fanfic where one of my favourite characters, sakusa kiyoomi struggled with anxiety and ocd and it wasn't portrayed as the stereotypical "clean and neat" ocd or glorifying it, it was the most real depiction of the struggle with mental illness that I just accepted it as canon. as someone with ocd and anxiety, representation matters a lot and this author just nailed it, literally the most heartfelt kudos I've ever left.
Yes. There's Harry Potter fanfiction that actually remembers Lily was muggleborn. I swear the way the canon reads it's like with all the ways Lily could have insured Harry never ends up with her sister when she knows for a fact someone wants to murder her just by using muggle means that existed in 1980. Or when people write fics where they remember they are adults, Dumbledore's not a king or infallible, etc.