Thats the best thing about Fanon! You can have any cut-off point you want!
Don't like the actual Canon setting? Ignore it! Perhaps the writer or director or somebody just didnt have the vision of the original creators, or the original creator lost the 'spark' at some point. Especially if a later work contradicts your existing writings.
Good example is Star Wars. Lots of fans just shrug at the newer stuff and say 'Original Trilogy is the only REAL Canon', despite the additional material.
Mind, there are times when Fanon is better than Canon. I cite the Star Wars Holiday Special, which despite being reviled by everyone including its creator, is *considered completely Canon*... yeah.
There's also the instance where someone might not have seen or heard about the newer, updated material, which may cause a bit of grouchiness. I understand a lot of slashy Potterfic writers being very bent out of shape when they found out one of the Slytherin boys was black.
To be nerdy here, it depends on if Tink is a pixie or a sprite. In D&D [gaming], sprites are nature spirits, usually depicted as female and not really sexed. Pixies are both sexes [male pixies and female pixies] and a viable breeding population.
Tink is described in the Disney canon as a 'pixie', though the original novel has her as a 'fairy'.
If memory serves, classic pixies were brownie-like critters, though more inclined to playing minor tricks on folks. I think in some cases they were described as being ugly and more cruel, but then mythological beings are seldom described consistently.
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As for male-tinkerbells, I'm of the opinion that the pixies are a sexually dimorphic race, with the males being gnome-like and incapable of flight.
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Don't like the actual Canon setting? Ignore it! Perhaps the writer or director or somebody just didnt have the vision of the original creators, or the original creator lost the 'spark' at some point. Especially if a later work contradicts your existing writings.
Good example is Star Wars. Lots of fans just shrug at the newer stuff and say 'Original Trilogy is the only REAL Canon', despite the additional material.
Mind, there are times when Fanon is better than Canon. I cite the Star Wars Holiday Special, which despite being reviled by everyone including its creator, is *considered completely Canon*... yeah.
There's also the instance where someone might not have seen or heard about the newer, updated material, which may cause a bit of grouchiness. I understand a lot of slashy Potterfic writers being very bent out of shape when they found out one of the Slytherin boys was black.
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I know someone who will wish that he'd thought of that.
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If memory serves, classic pixies were brownie-like critters, though more inclined to playing minor tricks on folks. I think in some cases they were described as being ugly and more cruel, but then mythological beings are seldom described consistently.
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