I mean I think things are mostly cleared up at this point, but I want to address this:
that's how you consider the usage of "canon" and "IC/OOC".
The majority of people use IC/OOC in the way I've been using it (see previous comment's link to article discussing how to avoid OOC as a writer of original fiction). This isn't a "personal definition" thing. This is a general writing thing.
OOC indicates a case of bad writing. If you call something OOC, most people aren't going to interpret what you're saying to mean "the setting is too AU for me personally"; they're going to read that as "this fanfic's interpretation of the character is objectively unrecognizable from what had been depicted in the original work".
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Date: 2024-09-23 04:16 am (UTC)I mean I think things are mostly cleared up at this point, but I want to address this:
The majority of people use IC/OOC in the way I've been using it (see previous comment's link to article discussing how to avoid OOC as a writer of original fiction). This isn't a "personal definition" thing. This is a general writing thing.
OOC indicates a case of bad writing. If you call something OOC, most people aren't going to interpret what you're saying to mean "the setting is too AU for me personally"; they're going to read that as "this fanfic's interpretation of the character is objectively unrecognizable from what had been depicted in the original work".