Is it fair to say that I think so many people might be bad at critical feedback in fandom because interpretation is just so subjective? I mean, original work, people have to take just the work, with anything derivative just by writing you're invoking a reader's memory and emotions about a source that you're interpreting just like they did. And sometimes people don't see "this didn't scan for ME", they just see, "Your interpretation is wrong."

Admittedly, some people are bad at making it so it's subjective, but I'm starting to think the fault is just with totally subjective things like canon. What is canon, anyway. Because the answer is different for everyone, I think there's a difference.

I like your solution, though, I might steal that. I guess for me it ends up being harder because most of the things that ping me out of stories have to do with bad fanon, which you can't convince people is bad if they think it's good, and flow, which is actually the number one thing that makes characterization not work for me! Which is retarded, I guess.

Fandom is a dangerous place, you could say!