Of Headcanons, Fanfictions, and Whathaveyou

Given all the headcanons, and the occasional fanfiction idea, that are determined in the process of an LP, I figured that they needed a thread all of their own to call home. Feel free to debate/discuss/add to any headcanon and/or fanfiction idea, as long as the creator doesn't care, of course.

Also, if you write fanfictions and have them posted anywhere on the web, feel free to post a link to your account. I'm over on fanfiction.net as liuli-xia.

Current fanfiction idea (somewhat developed in the second Hakuouki thread)-
Princess Bride: Hakuouki Style
featuring:
Hakuchi as Buttercup
Hijikata as Wesley
Okita- Inigo Montoya
Kondou- Inigo's deceased father
The rest of the casting is in progress. Suggestions welcome.

I have no idea what's going on. Elyscape, can you translate?

Back in your pen.

I thought your avatar was your headcanon.

No option for "I don't feel the need to co-opt other people's creative work and twist it to fit my own particular fetishes"?

I have headcanon'd a final episode of Lost that doesn't suck and an ending to the Matrix Reloaded that doesn't suck but requires a completely different Revolutions.

I'm insulted that you presume that I don't know those things. INSULTED. I sentence you to three readings of Yuffie's Chocobo.

Oh, wait. You might have meant other people.

The rest of the post makes me ;_;, as while it's one thing to ponder probabilities of ambiguity (a long historical passtime of those who enjoy any entertainment at all), the latter is...WHY?! GOD WHY?!

Damn, I thought the "I just read them" option meant this...? Anyway - THIS.

Heavy Artillery is my head-cannon.

SNARRY IS MY HEADCANNON OMG

There's a word for the way I perceive the universe?

There is, but we're all polite guys here.

Headcanon: We all live in Brokenslovakia. Lum is the supreme overlord, all moderators are his minions civil servants, and we are the inhabitants who sit here and needle each other instead of doing constructive things like debating which is the best kind of cheese amidst like-spamming posts.

I'll fight anyone who disagrees. I'm lying.

...with I could argue this but I can't. colby jack and Gorgonzola are the best

This is one of those thread where the grizzled veterans of 1000 internet wars unleash on the denizens of the LP forum. The LP forumites then wonder what they've done to deserve this kind of treatment (hint: you posted where the grizzled veterans actually read) and retreat, wounded, limping, and heartbroken back to the LP forum.

Then someone who speaks both languages arrives and shouts at the grizzled veterans for... doing what they do. The veterans, harbor that castigation for the next war, and retreat back to... Oh wait, the veterans never retreat, they just grow tired of hitting something that doesn't hit back.

Then someone makes a thread in Drama Llama wondering why the board is so bifurcated.

That is my fanfiction. That is my headcanon.

I have a head artillery platoon. I finish Stephen King's novels for him so that they have, you know, endings.

Wait, this isn't the Kawaii forum? *looks at forum* ... Huh. Would you look at that, I finally posted outside of the Kawaii and LP forums. Colour me surprised.

Where's our Sangry Grognard?

would that be closer to mauve, periwinkle, maize, or eucalyptus?

Partial to eucalyptus just because I like the word.

You know, in some cases I've been all "Why you gotta be so mean, you old cranky motherfuckers?". But fanfiction?
Let your freak flag fly and all, but why isn't this in the place created pretty much for this kind of thing?

As someone who's written a lot of fan-fiction in my early years, I have no problem with it as a source of enjoyment/writing practice/homage. For much the same reason, I enjoy cross-genre movie remakes (The Magnificent Seven/Seven Samurai, for example) and cover songs - I like seeing different writers/artists taking a new approach to an existing story or concept. For purposes of expounding upon a Let's Play, it can really work to draw people in. I'll use Matt Bowyer and Rapunzel 's LP of Icewind Dale 2 using the characters from Hakuoki, then taking that framework and weaving a supplemental narrative around it.

As a storytelling device? Perfectly fine. After all, nobody looked down on Disney for their Snow White fanfiction movie back in 1937.

If you mean why it isn't in the Kawaii thread, that's because FanFiction isn't limited to Japanese related media and it's entertaining to read, I guess? Unless there's another forum this could go under.

Not to mention that there's nothing wrong with fanfiction. It happens all the time, it just gets posted on the Internet now since it got created.

Heck, there are a lot of popular stories out there that are basically reimaginings of old stories or folktales. That's technically fanfiction.

I know, but the first post had references to Japanese media. It's pretty obvious by now (or at least IMO) that most people who don't venture into LP and Kawaii won't know any of that stuff. In fact, most of them voted to create an entire (quite thriving) subforum so they wouldn't have to deal with it.

Let me also state for the record that I have no problem with fanfiction, though I have no interest in writing/reading it whatsoever.

Point taken, but this does feel like the most appropriate forum, references to Japanese media aside.

Though I think that if people are fine with fanart, fanfiction isn't too much of a stretch to tolerate (depending on content, of course). Headcanon is also very, very general (albeit the term isn't frequently used outside of certain circles) since everyone I've met has a different interpretation of events in a show/game/movie/novel/comic/whatever, so I think this is still a good enough bridge for everyone to cross on.

I guess it's really the approach and the manner of broaching the topic that's the problem? We just need to make the subjects being discussed here more varied so everyone doesn't feel harassed.

Or something. I don't know, I'm just speculating, really.

What is this from? It looks morbidly awesome.

My view is, abusive behavior and horror pictures like Bryce's there aside, I don't care what anyone posts and where they post it. Really, what's the big deal? What's so hard to endure about a few posts on a subject you don't care about in a place you don't want to read it? I don't get it. Someone explain it to me.

Videodrome. Body horror alert.

You don't get the joke, nor the meta-joke behind it. This is not surprising as you are apparently eight thousand years old.

Indeed I do not. It's just not particularly pleasant to look at.

THIS IS MINE AND THAT IS THEIRS! But this? THIS IS MINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINE!

Yes, I'm two and three quarters.

Oh dear God that movie. Let me reconsider watching that. I'm probably going to watch it anyway, I'll just regret the decision forever.

I agree with you on principle, but I think most of the posts on this page prove that it's not really working. I was just really annoyed that yet again the same bullshit is happening. Only this time I think it could have been prevented. The reason I said "But fanfiction?" didn't mean I was slagging off fanfiction, it meant that it could have been predicted the Sangry Grognards would be all "Fanfiction? In my own backyard? I shall show my dissapproval of this!".
Honestly, I think this will end in tears for everyone except Adree who will be maniacally laughing in a dark corner, twirling his moustache.

Ooh, ooh! I can be all grognardy about this. I actually fucking detest 99% of fanfiction. I can see it as an excuse for a writing exercise sometimes, but then it's too easy to make a crutch out of it without developing your own skills. You end up with things like My Immortal as a result of that, though there are some occasional competent parody/satire fanfictions which usually brutally mock a horrible series. There's also the old "new take on the old thing", which is perfectly fine and fun when done right. Everyone enjoyed the tale of Bollocks Mahoney.

My general exceptions are twofold. Remaking a well known story in a new way can be great. That covers 99% of Disney's early stuff, and it covers newer things like Dante's Inferno (the Victorian paper puppet movie/LA/Political satire you all need to rent/buy, not the mediocre-but-still-better-than-God-of-War-ripoff game or its equally mediocre animated movie).

There's also writing something in someone else's universe/setting, but not re-using their characters to do it beyond a cameo, and not a cameo where your self-insert character has sex with them for fuck's sake what is wrong with you god I hate you. Within that space, you can find a lot of interesting stories, and hey, that's great. I'd take a lot of Star Wars universe fanfic over the actually god damn EU, that's for sure. Especially where Troy Denning is concerned.

That one covers also a damn ton of RPGs, especially MUSHes and MOOs and the other telnet types, since they are, in essence, collaborative fanfiction. But D&D is basically collaborative Tolkien fanfiction and there sure are five million fully written and realized Middle Earth scenarios that play around with the LoTR events.

It's a good thing we came here in the summer. In the winter, it can get very depressing.

In my headcanon, it was Trachtenberg who went to Vandersexxx.

I still can't believe that's Lucy Lawless, man.