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Someone dinged me, in a PM, for getting the info about Kivat and the Kiva armor wrong in "Boxed In". I'm a bit annoyed, because said fic is not only a AU (alternate universe), but was written very early on.
But this leads to a couple of interesting questions, especially regarding AUs.
1. How closely does a AU need to stick to canon facts? How much can it disregard? If canon gets expanded during/after the story is written, does the world one builds need to be adjusted? By how much?
2. When writing fics and posting them, does one need to state that one used or didn't use certain resources, like fandom ones? Do the readers have the right to complain if the work doesn't use popular fandom resources? And what if the author is of a semi-scholarly bent and prefers not to be writing based on something she/he can't trace back to a source?
3. If an author is revising a previously written/posted work for a series that's still airing, are they obligated to take into consideration canon that's come in since they wrote the story? If they're adding scenes? Or does the reader need to accept that the author wrote it a while ago, and things don't always match canon?
( Canon considerations on Boxed In )
But this leads to a couple of interesting questions, especially regarding AUs.
1. How closely does a AU need to stick to canon facts? How much can it disregard? If canon gets expanded during/after the story is written, does the world one builds need to be adjusted? By how much?
2. When writing fics and posting them, does one need to state that one used or didn't use certain resources, like fandom ones? Do the readers have the right to complain if the work doesn't use popular fandom resources? And what if the author is of a semi-scholarly bent and prefers not to be writing based on something she/he can't trace back to a source?
3. If an author is revising a previously written/posted work for a series that's still airing, are they obligated to take into consideration canon that's come in since they wrote the story? If they're adding scenes? Or does the reader need to accept that the author wrote it a while ago, and things don't always match canon?
( Canon considerations on Boxed In )
