Pt1 Hi there, I've got a bunch of questions that'll seem antagonistic, but I'm honestly just seeking clarity For a while I thought this blog was real, as in canon, but the deeper I dove the more rediculous it got. I didn't know headcanon was a thing
Pt2. So if these are personal-canons, why do you do it? Is it a matter of fanfic or confort? Is it how you enjoy the film/story? Because I don’t get how you can maintain these personally when it contradicts/doesn’t stand up with the real story.
First of all I’d like to note that the headcanons we post are submitted to us by other tumblr users. We get a lot of submissions from a lot of people, and there are a lot of other blogs that do exactly the same thing as us. It’s not unique to us (in fact the blog currently has 4 or 5 mods) and it’s really not as unusual as your ask frames it as.
Second of all, people make headcanons for a variety of reasons! The concept of a headcanon has been around in fandom since… I mean, I can’t say for certain, but I’ve definitely seen the term thrown around for years now, especially on tumblr. But I’ll cover the why a bit more with your Part 5.
Pt3. You’d have to rewrite substantial parts of the story/real-canon to justify or make things compatible. Next, I get doing this with adultor ageless characters, but why do this with child characters? It’s strange to want to sexualize kids
I want to give you the benefit of the doubt here because you said you don’t mean to be as antagonistic as you may seem, but! wow!! Say it with me folks: LGBTQ+ is not inherently sexual! It’s damaging to act as if it is! It creates stigma that leads to an environment where children don’t know that being cis/straight is not the default and that they can be different.
But anyway the long and the short of it is being trans or gay or any other LGBTQ+ identity is in no way more sexual that being cis or straight. We are not sexualizing anybody with these headcanons, least of all minors. We’re minors! In fact half the point of this blog is to prove that LGBTQ+ isn’t inherently sexual. We get headcanons about fish. Are we sexualizing fish now??
Pt4. Also, how do sustain it, that every main character happens to coincidentally be a case of panfluidnonbinary/asexualdualism etc. It stretches credulity that all main chars are going through the same inner conflict.
Again these headcanons are sent in by different people. Many characters have multiple different headcanons posted for them. No one is claiming they’re all true at the same time. Also, just because two people might have the same LGBTQ+ identity doesn’t mean they’re going through the same “inner conflict”. Saying so is just painting LGBTQ+ people into broad stereotypes and invalidating the diversity of human experience.
Pt5. I’m assuming it goes far beyond just Disney. Like if you were to watch Star Trek, Spotlight, Babe, Civil War or The Room, doesn’t it tire you to sit there twisting the real-canon into your personal-canon/fanfic? Cant you just enjoy a film as is?
What tires me is questions like this that act as if it’s ‘twisted’ to make our own representation when we find none :)
Okay, time to get back into why people make headcanons. As I mentioned, headcanon is a term that enjoys some popularity within fandom, and doesn’t necessarily always mean your beliefs on a character’s gender or sexuality. Headcanons can be things like ‘Tony Stark has a lion stuffy named Maximilian’ or ‘Percy Jackson takes star wars gummy vitamins every day’ or so on. the term something that someone personally believes about a character, without implying that it’s canon or that anyone else has to believe it as well.
People make headcanons when they see themselves in a character — for example, we get a lot of trans headcanons about Mulan, a lot of ace/aro headcanons about Merida, a lot of bisexual headcanons about Steve Rogers (because MCU is distributed by disney), all of which are firmly based in their respective canons — or, conversely, when they don’t see themselves to such an extent that it becomes frustrating.
Sometimes headcanons can contradict canon - like, someone could come up to me about my Percy Jackson headcanon there and say ‘but Percy can’t have taken vitamins every day! He’d have no access to them when he’s off on quests!’ and I’d be like, ok, fair point. I enjoy the thought of it, though, I think it suits his character/it helps me relate to him, and I’m not forcing anyone else to think the same thing unless they want to.
But a lot of the time they’re just things that can’t be either contradicted or supported by canon? Like, why would Tony Stark have a lion stuffy?? Why not??? Has he ever said he doesn’t have a lion stuffy, specifically? Prove me wrong here. It seems like something he would have.
Pt6. If it’s not too probing, what age-group are you? In your blog you mentioned ‘marginalized teenager’. How is that so, and is that what spurs you to make this? Is it a way of creating an environment free of backlash? Fulfilling what you lack IRL?
The mods of this blog are teenagers under the age of eighteen. Again, there are four or five of us at the moment, we all have different situations. Some of us are closeted, some of us are out. Some of us are in situations where we have to be closeted, some of us already have a “backlash-free environment,” as you so put it. Personally I think I get more backlash (in the form of anon hate) on this blog than I do in my real life. This is really just a place for LGBTQ+ disney fans to express themselves and share the ways they relate to characters.
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