30 Days of Fanfic meme: canon vs. fanon

Day 13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

I go to an occasionally tremendous amount of trouble to slot my stories into canon and get a little annoyed with myself when I can't make that work. I consider Jossing of some of my stories inevitable, but I always try to start with something canon-compliant and hope canon continues to allow my story to stay that way for as long as possible.

In general, writing fic hasn't changed the way I see the source material other than what I discussed back in Day 7. It's much more frequently the opposite, where I use fic to fix a problem I have with the source material (e.g., the way the sexuality of older women like Jackie and Donna was mocked), but I think that's pretty common among fic authors.

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