Beyond Selidor

Well, look at that. *stares in bafflement*

This would be stupid and offensive anyway, of course, but it does seem particularly ridiculous when this isn't even a universe or a set of characters she created. What else is she doing but building on the possibilities another writer's work implies? If it's okay to write a character, say, going to a planet they never go to in canon, why is it so awful to have that character making out with someone of their own gender when they never do that in canon?

'You won't catch me saying it's okay for the reader to over-rule the author as to their intent or their meaning or their position on anything to do with the story. [...] I know there's a school of thought out there that says there is no definitive truth, that no story is objectively true, that everything is open to subjective interpretation. I do not subscribe to that philosophy.

This is not only silly, I don't even get how it's relevant. I do understand authors feeling somewhat conflicted about the Death of the Author theory. (Sometimes you don't want to "die"!) But unless slashers are actually hacking your computer and inserting lots and lots of gayness right into your word files and buying or stealing all available copies and burning the pages with heterosexual love-scenes on them and laughing and dancing round the flames... how are you getting 'overruled?'. Okay, fine, so your characters are completely straight (or sexless, or whatever). What harm does it possibly do you, or your them, if someone wants to muse about what might happen if they weren't? Your book is still right there!

And if we're talking about a character whose sexuality is never defined in canon in the first place... then the whole thing's even sillier.

(Personally, I cannot imagine any of the Star Wars characters having any kind of sex whatsoever. Including the ones who conceive babies right there on screen.)