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When joining a new fandom, do you go out of your...

03/01/2026 at 12:22 AM More

When joining a new fandom, do you go out of your way to do "required reading"? I.e. do you seek out the most popular and reputable fanfiction/headcanons by highly regarded users and incorporate it as your fanon?

I do that deliberately, as a must-have step

I do that passively (e.g. check it out only if others share it/I like it)

I don't do it because I am not really interested

I don't do it deliberately, out of principle

My fandom does not have fics/headcanons considered "required reading"

I adopt my friends' headcanons, but not popular users' headcanons

Other

This is brought on by me seeing a pretty popular tweet where the OP lamented that they found a fic that does not follow the "accepted fanon" and contradicts another, seminal work of fanfiction by an esteemed fan author (but not the source material, from my understanding). Which both baffled and fascinated me.

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screenshot from the tv show Breaking Bad, in which Walter White says to Jesse, 'Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?' There is no text on the screenshot but the audience is expected to recognize it as a famous reaction image expressing bafflement.

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I look to see what's popular then I invariably ignore a good 70% of it not my fandoms

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not in all fandoms cannon isnt
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geekns said: Fanon =/= canon
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lacommunarde said: I view required reading as the canon source. And I will read most of it, usually very quickly. You can imagine my suffering for fandoms like X-men following Magneto but my g-d, can I sit and summarize Magnet brain’s life and adapt it into an AU. But no, I don’t view BNFs as any more important than anybody else. Their fanfic can either grab me or not vased on its own merits. Abd sometimes, BNFs suck. The sole exceptions would be like Babylon 5 stuff where JMS signed off on the official publication of fanfic for a time shortly after the series finished airing, and like if say Louise Michel, called Enjolras by Victor Hugo in his letters to her, wrote a fanfic of Les Mis (or like literally lived through the storming of the barricades in the week the Paris Commune fell and wrote a journal/book about her experiences and Hugo wrote her a very soft poem and call her Enjolras again while she was in prison/exile/what have you afterwards.
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