I Hate Retcons
i hate retcons
what i mean is, i hate when creators of a piece of media confirm something in the canon of the media, like for example a character stating “i love the color red,” and then the creator coming out on twitter or an interview or something later and saying “actually that character HATES red,” even if there’s direct evidence of the character loving red.
this is mostly about the fact that one of the arcane creators “confirmed” that sky and viktor were childhood friends, despite the only “evidence” of that being that they made eye contact once as children. if they were actually friends they’d have interacted in a friendlier way. but they didn’t, their interactions were all very hollow.
there are other examples too, but that’s the one i’m most annoyed about rn. i hate retcons. stop retconning things to make them canon. if you want something to be canon in your story, make it canon (if you can), and at the very least don’t canonically confirm the exact opposite of what you want to be canon.
if i wanted a character in a book i’m theoretically writing to be black, i wouldn’t describe them as being pale and having white features. i then DEFINITELY wouldn’t go on twitter years later and “confirm” that they were black the whole time (cough cough jkr).
anyways. stop confirming things in the laziest way possible. also stop getting mad at people for not taking the creator’s words into account when those words are bullshit. thanks.
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