person: *draws a character as a POC* or *interprets a character as trans*
someone else: haha, cool headcanon, but uh, i dont think its canon… just so you know its probably not how the author sees it… yup… definitely not like that actually…
person: that’s cool have you considered that the entire work isn’t real and the sacredness of canon is dramatically overstated because ultimately all fiction is a reflection of the human experience for which there is of course no objective reference point and the process of reflection that occurs between the work and the viewer is ultimately no less valid than the process of reflection between the work and the creator