Should they stay or should they go?

*cue the Clash music*

Hey, I've got a question; this is something I've been dithering about (yes, I do that a lot). I'll deliberately keep this post spoiler-free, but the comments may not be.

Let's say that a fanfic writer makes some rather baseless assumptions about canon and then writes some stories based on that. Then canon makes it clear that these assumptions are wrong, so these stories are now wildly inaccurate. Let's also suppose that she sort of prefers her own AU universe to actual canon, but wants to be accurate in her stories.

Should the author:

1- Take down the offending stories completely?
2- Rewrite them to agree with canon?
3- Leave them up and consider them snapshots of a particular way of looking at canon in the past, but write accurately from here on out?
4- Ignore canon totally, and write AU?

(Option #4 is on there mostly for the heck of it, because while it may work for some, it just doesn't for me, I think.)

Should they stay or should they go?

*cue the Clash music*

Hey, I've got a question; this is something I've been dithering about (yes, I do that a lot). I'll deliberately keep this post spoiler-free, but the comments may not be.

Let's say that a fanfic writer makes some rather baseless assumptions about canon and then writes some stories based on that. Then canon makes it clear that these assumptions are wrong, so these stories are now wildly inaccurate. Let's also suppose that she sort of prefers her own AU universe to actual canon, but wants to be accurate in her stories.

Should the author:

1- Take down the offending stories completely?
2- Rewrite them to agree with canon?
3- Leave them up and consider them snapshots of a particular way of looking at canon in the past, but write accurately from here on out?
4- Ignore canon totally, and write AU?

(Option #4 is on there mostly for the heck of it, because while it may work for some, it just doesn't for me, I think.)