User blog comment:LilyheartsLightning/Author Ex Maraudia — A Review of Marauder Shields/@comment-4950455-20121008004303/@comment-4807396-20130109193508

Taking liberties here and there is fine, but you should be able to work within the canon without twisting it. At the very least, the changes and tweaks should be meaningful, rather than just going "Oh, I don't like that part, so I'm just going to change it", which is just disrespectful to the work you claim to be a fan of. Canon twisting has slowly become a pet hate of mine in fanfiction.