dduane:

prokopetz:

Things fanfic is reputed for inserting into the source material:

  • Sex

Things fanfic actually inserts into the source material:

  • Sex
  • Holding hands
  • Bizarre misunderstandings
  • Meticulous descriptions of food and clothing
  • The author’s unaddressed traumas
  • Found family
  • Plausible explanations for existing plot holes
  • Additional plot holes
  • Exciting new frontiers in speculative physics, economics, chemistry, biology, zoology, psychology, theology, and/or ontology
  • Tax evasion
  • Gender
  • Very bad puns

And so importantly, in prev tag:

#actual personality for character who was done dirty in canon