Canon: What actually happened.
Headcanon: What you think happened, based on the characters, settings, storylines and all reasonable extrapolations thereof.
Heartcanon: What you feel ought to have happened, quite divorced from rationality or sense.
Soulcanon: What you know happened, deep down in your soul, regardless of what anyone says. Including the creators of canon, themselves.
Crotchcanon: What your gonads wish had happened, or, alternatively, what turns you on.
Oh my goodness.
Okay, this seems like a fun basis for a meme: “Send me a character, and I’ll give you one of each” – a canon fact, a headcanon fact, a heartcanon fact, a soulcanon fact and a crotchcanon fact.” 🙂
The TRUE canon is all five. 😉
Like 99% of the original fan fic tropes came from Star Trek I’m not even joking
- fuck or die
- alien sex pollen
- evil alternate mirror au
- time travel au
- sped up ageing
- stuck in a frozen cave
- body heat sharing
- alien drunk disease
- body swap
- this man is my exact double
like there are so man more and I always see people being like ‘wtf where did the sex pollen trope even come from’ and the answer is Star Trek
The best part is?
All of this is canon.