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What makes a good headcanon? Scootapuff!saU4Tsd4dU 11 Aug 2013 06:35:07 GMT No.372579

I was browsing through some videos and YouTube and a title I saw piqued my interest; what, in your opinion, makes for a "good" headcanon? How much evidence do you think a headcanon requires before you give it any credence? Feel free to share and discuss any particular ones you might have as well.

Anonymous 11 Aug 2013 12:29:42 GMT No.372608

One that makes you happy. Invariably, anyone else will consider yours stupid and far inferior to their own, so no point bothering to make anyone else happy with your fanon.

Anonymous 11 Aug 2013 14:43:24 GMT No.372620

One that is non-existant.

teh_Foxx0rz (Element of Textwall)!FoxxyWhyUQ 11 Aug 2013 16:58:52 GMT No.372633

One that is coherent and makes the straightest line between all the points.

Silver Strength!TwiDasH7n2 11 Aug 2013 18:20:16 GMT No.372645

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>>372633

>straightest line
>not following curves

Heavy Mole 11 Aug 2013 18:44:32 GMT No.372649

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I suppose a "good" headcanon would be one that is able to advance through the gamut of canonicity in regard to the show.

For example, AJ's parents being deceased was once somebody's (or maybe a few people's) headcanon. It took off and reached a widely accepted level of fanon, and with AFR is now quasi-canon.

So in this sense, "good" headcanons are ones that arise spontaneously in the most number of people–a kind of "group genius".

The Person Who Posts As Fluttershy (Element of Self-descriptive Usernames) 11 Aug 2013 19:21:25 GMT No.372653

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Head-canons are just opinions. There is no "good" headcanon and the only way for headcanon to be bad is if it is contradictory with itself or the show

firmly_grasp_it 11 Aug 2013 23:00:30 GMT No.372783

>doesn't contradict the current canon
>is supported by the current canon in some way
>would potentially lead to good storytelling

Anonymous 12 Aug 2013 05:47:12 GMT No.373221

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>>372645
>curves
>humanized ponies

Scootapuff!saU4Tsd4dU 12 Aug 2013 06:40:54 GMT No.373224

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>>373221
>>372645
I know right? Dashie wouldn't be curvy at all, she'd be pretty toned.

Anonymous 12 Aug 2013 16:06:39 GMT No.373258

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>>373224
Toned PONY curves. AS POSEIDON INTENDED

ShokBox!SonicOTKmM 12 Aug 2013 16:28:58 GMT No.373262

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To me, a good headcanon is one that is drawn from actual canon and can fit into the actual canon in a decent, non-forced, non-contradictory way.

For example, let's say that you have a headcanon that Fluttershy abuses her animal friends when she's alone with them. This would be a bad headcanon because it completely goes against not only what we know about Fluttershy's character, but it also completely contradicts what we've actually seen from Flutter's interactions with her animals.

Anonymous 12 Aug 2013 20:20:54 GMT No.373440

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>>372649
>…AJ's parents being deceased was once somebody's (or maybe a few people's) headcanon.
Actually, it was Lauren's, so there was always a pretty good chance that it would become canon unless Hasbro's Meddlers In Suits said, "Absolutely not." Wisely, she did not give them the opportunity to say that. (see image)

>>373262
>…let's say that you have a headcanon that Fluttershy abuses her animal friends when she's alone with them. This would be a bad headcanon…
Yep, but Fluttershy having a history of being abused is good headcanon, because we already know as much as they can show us without traumatizing the target audience. Bullying is abuse. She was abused. The only question is, how bad?

teh_Foxx0rz (Element of Textwall)!FoxxyWhyUQ 13 Aug 2013 02:12:10 GMT No.373643

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>>373258

Anonymous 13 Aug 2013 13:06:13 GMT No.373999

>>373440
Ok if bullying is abuse, and we have seen her being bullied when she was young, then how is that a headcanon? Wouldnt that just make it canon?

Anonymous 23 Sep 2013 04:00:25 GMT No.401779

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>>373999
>Wouldnt that just make it canon?
As far as I'm concerned it does, but I've run into people online who say she wasn't abused. I'd say if you have a post-traumatic stress reaction like <pic related>, you were abused.