>>54837311It is certainly a commendable position to take, even if I personally have a different view of the matter. To stay loyal and faithful for the readers in maintaining a familiarity with the source material can sometimes be a trying task, and illustrates a writer who gives a damn about what they write.
Me personally? I have different priorities when I write. To me, the canon source material will *always* be there. If my readers want to experience the source material as is, they will always have that to fall back on instead of the amateur works of some rando writer they managed to stumble across online. It's a nice bonus to see more of your favorites online true, but ultimately there will be dozens more like what you make regardless of what you create by adhering to canon in a strict sense.
Now, whether the end result ends well is a different story, and *that* becomes the one of deciding factor whether a reader will remain to read or not. While I have not read any of your works, I would bet good money that yours is not lacking in the slightest, even though there may be room for improvement.
That said, my approach is more... Revisionist in nature. I mostly dabble in the PMD side of things, so that leaves more open to interpretation. That, and not being a fan of the last few gens in their iteration and execution with some of their concepts, leads me to experiments with certain "what ifs" that the source material either can't or won't try to dabble in. I presume the reader, if they wish to, can always go back to the source material if they wish to find more like it. There's certainly no shortage of that both there and in fandom derivative works produced for the purpose. Thusly, I can push the envelop for concepts that I have seen neither canon nor others push in the way that I imagine, and have fun doing so. If some other writer decides to adopt those ideas, or even better, improve upon them, so much the better.
