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[tiamatschild]

One of my least favorite things is when people use what I usually call peripheral canon to verbally smack or demean other fans or try to interrupt their creative play.

Peripheral canon is stuff that is by the canon's creators or their authorized proxies, is the same continuity as the canon, and is official, but is not part of the central piece of

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[playswithworms]

Well said! \o/ In TF, there's so MUCH canon - it's hard to keep up with a tenth of it. I think of my own writing as like the sea crabs I saw long ago when I did an internship in Belize, where they stuck bits of algae and sponges and whatever they liked to their shells for camouflage - a little bit of G1, that nifty thing from the comics, ooh, here's a fun bit of fanon, and this tiny moment here from the movie that I'm going to take and run with and make a major plot point, whoo hoo! *scuttles about with random assortment of canon and fanon bits*

[tiamatschild]

OH GOLLY Eric Carle did a children's book about decorator crabs! I mean, his wasn't any particular species, though it was one of the hermit kind - - - It's SO CUTE I read it ten million times as a kid. Seeing some At Large must have been cool!

and yeah, this is a particular problem with Transformers, not least because even what's supposedly in continuity to each other... .... ....doesn't neccesarily make internal sense with the other stuff, so. It's. Not a very good trump card, really.

[tainry]

DECORATOR CRABS OMG EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <33333333333333333