Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20150719111502/@comment-25555436-20150725030311

Shadow at Morning wrote: Stop it with the ''Got it memorized? ''shit. It's annoying, patronizing, and overly aggressive. Not until you fucking memorize it for once.

A fan term is a fan term, it has nothing to do with canon. If by your logic you can use a fanart term like R63 to refer to a canon work's element, then let's call all fiction in the universe as fanfiction, with all the tropes related to fanfiction. Does it sound logical to you?

By canonical, and I hoped you had it memorized, ''it needs to fucking change their gender In-Universe, on-screen! Not be a character based on someone of the other gender, that part is 100% optional. It needs to happen in a canon work, or in at least something with an actual story'', which is why Rule 63 doesn't count as using it canonically. Because it applies to fanart, not fanworks and much less the canon of a work.