marcicat | why I love fanfic (reason # eleventymillion)

In particular, comics fandom fanfic. Because comics “canon” tends to be so wonky anyway, there’s just so much wiggle room. You want someone to have a twin? Done! You want someone to be a telepathic shapeshifting clone from an alternate dimension in the future? Done!

I love comics fandom fanfic because it’s really easy to get huge variety. Like, in Harry Potter fandom, you have to figure at least fifty percent of the fic is going to deal with defeating Voldemort. But in X-Men fandom, who *knows* what might happen! Magneto might be a bad guy, or a good guy, or teaching at the school but still be morally kinda dubious, or have amnesia, or not even be mentioned!

Also, I love that I never feel like I need to explain how a situation came about in a comics fanfic. Like, if I ever wrote an Avengers fic where they had a moon base, I would feel no need at all to explain why or how. It would just be ‘bam! moon base!’ (This is a fandom where in actualfax canon the team keeps winding up in a land populated by dinosaurs, apparently mostly by accident. A moon base would be small potatoes for them.)

In short: Comics fandom — the ultimate handwave.

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