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The writers are flawed humans and trying to take the show's canon as some immutable law is silly in its own way.

Exactly. At the end of the day, the writers are still human. They can make fumble ups and screw ups, and some have openly admitted they know there are some who never watched the show. Sometimes it's just the truth that we know them better than the writers.

Honestly to follow it as law, if that canon bothers you, is it really good for you?

Well ... indeed ... we have over thousand pony fan . Show canon only have one ... and writer also could change their mind anytime . Treat show canon as law could take entire fan into danger place .

If writer copy a fanfiction into show , the fanfiction can become a canon , is not the problem make sense , the show canon or not really depending on if it is in the show or not ... like season 5 Episode 9 , fanon finally in the show , but even writer didn't do that ... fan is still have threir own canon .

So when you recognize the different between canon and other independent , you'll know show canon is not really 100% law .

You're exactly right too. Plus you have things like animation errors, it may sound dumb but is that canon? Derpy became "canon", but does that mean Rarity being an alicorn because she was for a few frames canon too? What about stupid gags? It's just too much to get picky about, and then the truth is, can you really give me a good reason as for the difference between fanfiction and a show writer? There isn't one, exceot one is just paid to do it. That's it.