I mostly agree, though I think comments that bring in headcanon that's popular to a majority of fandom (or at least, the loudest part of fandom) are troubling, since they tend to derail prompts that may not necessarily abide by that headcanon.
If I prompt "Finn/Poe, shower sex" and someone comments, "Finn probably really enjoys shower sex because he never had showers as a stormtrooper and Poe's the first one to teach him what a shower is", I think that's veering more towards hijacking rather than thinking about the way a prompt plays out. I think if the OP agrees with it, no harm done, but if not, it's a commenter who could have very easily made their own prompt detailing that specific headcanon and characterization instead.
That being said, most prompts will go in a different direction and sometimes that can lead to a great fic, but I think people need to figure out when their headcanon comments work better as new prompts.
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(Anonymous) 2016-01-06 12:23 am (UTC)(link)I mostly agree, though I think comments that bring in headcanon that's popular to a majority of fandom (or at least, the loudest part of fandom) are troubling, since they tend to derail prompts that may not necessarily abide by that headcanon.
If I prompt "Finn/Poe, shower sex" and someone comments, "Finn probably really enjoys shower sex because he never had showers as a stormtrooper and Poe's the first one to teach him what a shower is", I think that's veering more towards hijacking rather than thinking about the way a prompt plays out. I think if the OP agrees with it, no harm done, but if not, it's a commenter who could have very easily made their own prompt detailing that specific headcanon and characterization instead.
That being said, most prompts will go in a different direction and sometimes that can lead to a great fic, but I think people need to figure out when their headcanon comments work better as new prompts.