Does timeline/AU fuckery turn you off from a series? I don't

I don't really care if each work has something unique to offer.

"canon" is overrated shit anyways. It's better if the work can stand alone.

It's kind of lazy because it's drawing on existing canon and then only changing a bit is like a book describing its goblins as "basically Tokien's goblins except they're purple".

Multiple works sharing characters or settings is completely fine, but trying to play off of a pre-existing template is cheap and not really indicative of a "good" story because you have to already be established to do it.

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I know you said that you aren't referring to time travel as a whole but god damn are time loops the dumbest shit. "I don't have to explain it because it's always happened this way xD". Just imagine if this approach was taken for literally anything else.

>>8439023
Timelines, timetravel and AU themes are the worst shit one can ever insert into a genre fiction. Even some fetishistic faggotry would be better. That's because in 99% of the cases existing of the timelines and such imply that either characters created the whole another university, or that the universe is actually multiverse with every single possibility being realised somewhere across it. Both possibilities have extremely far-reaching philosophical and ethical implications, and every single time the author fails to investigate these consequences.

Yes, I am mad.

>>8439763
>created the whole another universe
quick-fix

>>8439763
What consequences?