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unspeakablehorror) wrote2021-12-19 02:35 am
unspeakablehorror) wrote2021-12-19 02:35 am
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Fandom Headcanons and Genres and Daydreams
An interesting thing I've observed is that the focus of many popular fandom headcanons remind me heavily of the various kinds of idle daydream stories I've had over the course of my life. Though in my case, I didn't necessarily project those onto existing characters. Oftentimes I'd just make up characters and project the desired archetype onto them. I just never really felt the urge to share those because I consider them a bit private. Also the story itself isn't generally what matters to me, but rather the ability of the daydream process itself to use that story to generate the desired emotional result. The story by itself wouldn't have the same effect for me.
My writing sometimes comes partially out of that process, but tends to be considerably more detailed and specific than my daydreams. One of the things I view as a major advantage of writing a story down is being able to flesh out full personalities and worlds and plots, whereas what I can hold just inside my head is much more limited.
I wonder if this is why fandom often has the focuses that it does? For things like fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, that sort of thing, which seem to be kind of specifically fandom genres? Because they're attempting to focus on a particular emotion, much like a daydream story? And so a lot of these headcanons and stories are kind of direct or mostly direct transcriptions of daydreams or an attempt to capture the *feel* of a daydream in writing? I mean, at least for me, I do notice my daydream stories often fit much more neatly into these categories than the ones I write down.
My writing sometimes comes partially out of that process, but tends to be considerably more detailed and specific than my daydreams. One of the things I view as a major advantage of writing a story down is being able to flesh out full personalities and worlds and plots, whereas what I can hold just inside my head is much more limited.
I wonder if this is why fandom often has the focuses that it does? For things like fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, that sort of thing, which seem to be kind of specifically fandom genres? Because they're attempting to focus on a particular emotion, much like a daydream story? And so a lot of these headcanons and stories are kind of direct or mostly direct transcriptions of daydreams or an attempt to capture the *feel* of a daydream in writing? I mean, at least for me, I do notice my daydream stories often fit much more neatly into these categories than the ones I write down.