Asking for... well, asking for a FRIEND who's thinking about ignoring some parts of canon for one of her selfships, but are there any plot points in any of your f/os' canons that you ignore when you selfship?
oh absolutely!!!!! i ignore pieces of canon all the time!!! i change ‘em, i twist ‘em around, i throw ‘em out completely. no shame in it!!!
according to me! for my Marvel ships... Thanos is just. not around. it is not convenient to me. Bucky never got dusted, Steve’s young and stayed in modern time, Tony’s alive and well. So is Nat. and Loki. Bruce is Bruce and Hulk is Hulk, they’re still separate. Clint’s not a murderer? instead of going straight from Wakanda and into a war, Bucky returned to New York with Steve after Shuri got HYDRA out of his head. he and Tony were able to find some peace. everyone hangs out at the compound and is in THERAPY.
and then for my Knives Out ships... Ransom’s also not a murderer? or if he IS then he kills someone else besides his grandfather because his grandpa seems cool and i want to hang with him. he also doesn’t get cut off from his grandpa’s funds because he’s more fun when he’s rich AND he definitely doesn’t go to prison (or if he does it’s for a very short amount of time) because that would cramp my style.
i mostly follow canon for my ship with Frank but. in the movie he had a romance with someone and at the end of the film their relationship is left kind of ambiguously so i’ve taken it upon myself to confirm that they are absolutely no longer together. according to me, the fact that they were ever together in the first place is. questionable. i may erase it completely. who knows.
ANYWAY. all this to say!!! yes, i do ignore canon!!! sometimes i play into it when i have an idea for specific content (ex. i decide i want to write about Bucky and i reuniting after Endgame or something) but when it’s not convenient to me or i don’t fit into it well then i adapt it. that’s what’s so fun about self shipping!!! i can do whatever i want!!!
please tell your FRIEND that she has every right to toss out whatever she doesn’t like, the world is her own!!! and that i hope she finds joy in creating her own story!!! 💗










