Fanfiction, by definition, is noncanonical. What are you, retarded?
You are the one taking a term that ultimately is about corporate IP demarcation seriously. At the end of the day-it’s all stories. You have Sherlock Holmes as one example-dozens of stories, different directors, actors, interpretations of the material. Same with SW or whatever.
This is my entire contention. We're both looking at rabid animals destroying the country right now, reveling in the perpetual revolution because they grew up attuning their moral compass to disney products. You're saying this is actually totally natural and in fact we should lean into it even harder. I'm saying we should get our society off of these fake astroturfed narratives that are poisoning us and go back to producing true and honest culture again.
My point, to reiterate again is liberals using Star Wars are not doing something abnormal or modern. They are using a known cultural narrative(Star Wars)-as a metaphor to define moral stakes, identify who is a good and bad guy, etc…
That’s how most people throughout most of history have engaged with narratives-“ X is the good guy and Y is bad guy in our cultural narrative everyone is familiar with”=“in current political conflict we are X and the other side is Y”
Humans tend to transfer these things. My point is the human mind does not make hard barriers between fictional conflict in a story, they are invested in and real life conflict, nor do people normally separate stories and moral lessons.
Or even more simply-stories are powerful because they are emotionally laden ways of describing and making sense of the world. For a liberal growing up on Harry Potter-Trump is racist, Trump is bad, hey, Voldemort was those things, and I was rooting for Harry, so we’re Dumbledore’s army.
You keep getting confused about if something is corporate slop or has some organic base-that really doesn’t matter. “This isn’t real culture therefore people couldn’t possibly be inspired by it or have it shape their moral beliefs”. This is simply wrong.
What matters is people take their political identity and moral stances from the stories they absorb and project their politics on to narratives and their politics into stories.
POST EDIT: who the fuck offers unlimited PTO and how does that even work on on the accountancy side? WTF?!
