Canon or Fanon?

Or: everything I need to know about life I learned from AO3.

Almost since fiction began, there have been arguments between authors and their readers. The question? Who gets the final say? When an author sends a character and a story out into the world, do they maintain the right to control the narrative or do those of us who read the stories?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle so despised his creation Sherlock Holmes that he…