" this distressing habit in Narnia fandom where authors claim that they are the canon keepers channeling Lewis’ intent and that anything that departs from this vision is AU, non-canon compliant, and by implication, inferior"
Oh dear. When people think that AU must by necessity be inferior, then I think they've got something wrong. Badly written stories are inferior to well written stories, is my point of view - canon or AU. Some AU settings I like, others I don't. But usually I don't get mad about them, and if I do, I usually just make sure to avoid that writer in the future.
I don't think canon keepers (as different from Canon Keepers) should take it upon them to channel the author's intent. They can say that something contradicts what's written in the text, and I'd agree that this would be AU - but to say that such and such a thing could never happen, is stretching it a bit too far (depending on the 'thing', perhaps). Author's intent is mostly interpretation - difficult to be authoritative about for anyone other than the author himself (and I heard about one author saying, "Well, if you found that in my text, it must be there").
The Canon Keepers can at least sometimes be fun writing - Antaprate didn't make her complaint into a fun story, she was just grumpy. In her profile as well.
Enough of that.
I think Asim is un-shippable, too. It just wouldn't be something he would give priority to.
I don't know who's most to blame of Edmund and Morgan. I did the same mistake as Morgan did myself once (with a friend, not in a relationship), so I can see how they would both mis-communicate in such a situation. My friend and I also both misunderstood the other (we talked about it some days later and got it sorted out, because she wasn't sailing to Narnia the next day). It can happen to the best of people. But it would happen more easily with these two.
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Oh dear. When people think that AU must by necessity be inferior, then I think they've got something wrong. Badly written stories are inferior to well written stories, is my point of view - canon or AU. Some AU settings I like, others I don't. But usually I don't get mad about them, and if I do, I usually just make sure to avoid that writer in the future.
I don't think canon keepers (as different from Canon Keepers) should take it upon them to channel the author's intent. They can say that something contradicts what's written in the text, and I'd agree that this would be AU - but to say that such and such a thing could never happen, is stretching it a bit too far (depending on the 'thing', perhaps). Author's intent is mostly interpretation - difficult to be authoritative about for anyone other than the author himself (and I heard about one author saying, "Well, if you found that in my text, it must be there").
The Canon Keepers can at least sometimes be fun writing - Antaprate didn't make her complaint into a fun story, she was just grumpy. In her profile as well.
Enough of that.
I think Asim is un-shippable, too. It just wouldn't be something he would give priority to.
I don't know who's most to blame of Edmund and Morgan. I did the same mistake as Morgan did myself once (with a friend, not in a relationship), so I can see how they would both mis-communicate in such a situation. My friend and I also both misunderstood the other (we talked about it some days later and got it sorted out, because she wasn't sailing to Narnia the next day). It can happen to the best of people. But it would happen more easily with these two.