FIMFiction isn't cannon.

Welcome to FIMFiction where the stories are made up and the cannon doesn't matter!
I find it weird reading the comments to some stories that say the show invalidated their story, or anything in that vein. What is the point of making that kind of comment? Fiction is in the title of this site. What is stranger still is when such comments have positive thumbs ratings and people engage with them. When I'm not feeling too apathetic I'll give "not cannon!" style comments a sigh and a thumbs down but treating something so obvious and useless to say as worthy of rebuttal, or even worse, support...it vexes me.

But you're rebutting cannon complaint comments right now!
I realize writing this blog post is, in some small way, engaging with all of these comments and hypocritical to my assertion that they should be discouraged and ignored...but...if even one person reads this and it prevents them from complaining about how a character would never act a certain way as evidanced by some episode or that actually Rainbow Dash's parents are awesome per that episode I feel it's worth writing.

I'm just letting the author know their work is wrong.
If you only enjoy writing that is near cannon that's fine, but don't put authors down for trying to create interesting backstories and worlds for you. When you think certain levels of non-cannon are wrong you're limiting what you can enjoy and experience. Also, many authors let negative feedback, even when it is silly feedback, stifle their creativity and slow or stop their production which impacts what people who enjoyed it are getting. Many writers appear to have stopped stories the instant the show airs an episode that contradicts them and it makes me sad. Let's not make that problem worse. If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Go forth and be awesome.