graculus

Blair Sandburg is not, by any stretch of the imagination, 'exotic'.

Likewise Daniel Jackson is not 'willowy' or 'frail' or anything similar. At no point in the show's run (or even in the movie) could he be accurately described that way.

Ditto for Ezra Standish.

And let's not get started on the whole subject of competent, self-sufficient individuals bursting into tears at the slightest opportunity (be it running out of coffee, stubbing their toe, their favourite pot plant dying...).

Doesn't reading something like that just make you want to go "Have you actually *seen* the show?"?

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Definitely, in Mag7 fic which is more rife with fanon than a lot of fandoms, the fanon has usurped the canon in many readers' minds. Fanfic Vin is a good example of that. Canon Vin is a lot less squeaky clean - literally and figuratively - than Fanon Vin.

Yeah, sometimes I think readers will forgive just about anything as long as the plotline is entertaining and the characters have the right names, at least. But, sadly, storytelling and good writing aren't necessarily the same thing.