tfa_kink | DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

The issue with this is that it is a TFA kink meme, so a lot of people are only going off the canon presented in that single movie.

I'm not sure this thread is about the kink meme, I think the OP was asking about the whole fandom.

NA, but the point still stands. It's no different than the part MCU fandom that goes off only the movies and not the comics universe.

The comics don't matter.

Without the comics there wouldn't be any mcu movies, so yes, they do matter.

Without your mum you wouldn't exist, do you live your life exactly the way she would want you to, down to the finest detail?

lmao nice try

lmao go back to the troll-meme.

So I'm a troll for responding to someone looking for a fight? Okay.

I think the anon above the one you responded to is the one that needs to go back to the troll-meme.

Will you all shut up about the fucking troll-meme?

We don't tell people to shut up around here! Go back to the troll meme!

DA here. I've read my fair share of SW EU and I honestly don't mind people only going off of TFA-specific canon. I mean, the SW EU is intimidating as fuck to get into, even with the vast majority of it being deemed non-canon, so I'm cool with people just sticking to the movie and not wanting to mess with anything beyond that. Same with the MCU - I read comics but I'm not expecting comic-compliance when I go into movieverse fic. That said, the details provided by knowing the EU can help with world building (like knowing the names of tech or alien species) but it doesn't make-or-break a fic for me if the author doesn't know or even contradicts EU.

AYRT

Yes, exactly. Large, extensive universes can be really intimidating and not everyone has endless hours to search out the tiniest detail. I don't think there's anything wrong with going off the TFA and MCU universe and not the EU or MCU.

When MCU fandom first started, there was a lot of drama over people not adhering to comics canon details, friendships, romances, etc., but eventually it moved into people who wrote only based off the movies, people who wrote only based off the comics, and people who wrote using details from both. I think Star Wars fandom will move in that direction eventually.

The other point still stands too: watching just TFA itself and nothing else, it's still abundantly clear that they're aliens, not on earth, and don't use our days of the week. You don't have to go back and read all the novels and watch the christmas special to figure out you shouldn't make references to American brand names.

Yeah, for my part, I don't care if people aren't well-versed in SW universe terminology--heck, I've been into the OT my whole life and still have to look things up, so I absolutely get that it can be intimidating if you just got into the franchise. But just...don't use anything egregiously modern-day-Earth specific. That, at least, doesn't seem hard to me.

Yeah, honestly I'm just not a fan of the rest of the franchise. I was really surprised by how much I loved the latest movie and have been excited to write fics for it, but that's it. I google things when I'm writing, but I know I'm probably going to make mistakes that go against pieces of the canon since it's a huge canon. I don't have the time/energy/desire to care though.

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