Fang Zei said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Those books you love are still around, right? They haven't magically faded from existence, have they?

No, but there's still the overwhelming feeling that it was all for nothing.

Again, it's fiction, sprung from human imagination. None of it is real. None of it is true.

This:

has absolutely no more or less objective existence than this:

Just because some cabal stamps the former "canon" and the latter "non-canon" doesn't mean a goddamn thing; it doesn't remove the old books from your bookshelves or your memories.

Stop relying on corporate bigwigs to decide for you what is or isn't real from works of complete fiction. Take what works you like, make them your personal canon, and discard everything you don't want; fuck the official canon.