Stargate SG-1: canon vs. fanon vs. head canon

This has come up while I've been working on a few stories. It's been awhile since I've done a full rewatch so a lot of the details are fuzzy. I'm never sure if they are canon, fanon, or just my own personal canon as I've interpreted events.

I was rereading a few older stories I started where Jack and Kawalsky have been friends for a long time. In my head that was just canon. Then I rewatched Children of the Gods and Kawalsky mentions that in all the time he served with Jack he never knew he had a son. Hmmm, that sounds weird. If they had been good friends why wouldn't he know that. So my head canon got all mixed up.

So opinions:
Jack and Kawalsky: friends for a long time, but didn't keep in contact after Jack had Charlie; friends for a long time and stayed close ignoring the comment in Children of the Gods; were never really friends, just worked together?

Opinions?

Are there any other instances of details that have a canon version (if people remember), a fanon one (that has persisted through different fics) or something you just have in your head?

I'm just curious. I've been writing a lot of alternate realities and just trying to keep the fact straight from one to the other to the actual canon is getting confusing.

another Stargate plot question

I'm just curious how people have dealt with the discrepancies between the movie, SG-1 and Atlantis.

I'm pretty sure, canonwise, the movie doesn't really count in SG-1 other than what is specified in the show. But as writers, do you try and mesh them together as best you can or ignore a lot of the movie?

What about Atlantis. In the finale it's sitting in San Francisco Bay, right? I haven't read any of the books so I'm discounting them entirely (they aren't canon). How would you approach that in a story? Would you leave them there or have them back in Pegasus either ignoring the SGA finale or them finding some other way to get Atlantis home.
(I have a throw away line in one fic where Jack mentions Atlantis and the woman he's talking to replies with, "as in The Lost City of-" Then Jack says, "I guess it isn't really lost any more, although it does go missing occasionally.")

Another question: How do you, as a writer, deal with what happens after SG-1 ends; or as a reader, what do you like to see happen.

I've written fics that pretty much ignore anything after the end of SG-1 and others that only elude to stuff happening during SGU in the context of the SG-1 characters.

So if I was writing a fic that takes place in 2010 (when SGU ended) and is only slightly AU how would I deal with it all? Or how would you?
So far in my story Jack mentions his main pressing issue is finding a way to bring back the Destiny crew, but otherwise the galaxy is calm with the Lucian Alliance occasionally poking their noses where they don't belong. The Goa'uld are dead, the Ori are dead, the replicators are destroyed. What else is there?

Oh, and another AU plot bunny. I know this scenario has been done before (because I've read one or two). But suppose it was Mark that followed his father into the Air Force and Sam has had a thing against the military ever since she was a kid. (role reversal AU)
My plot has her married to Jonas Hanson (who never joined the military but is still a completely controlling prick). Sam escapes the abuse to go stay with her brother who is in Colorado Springs and is a member of SG-1. She eventually meets Jack and instantly there are sparks, mostly because she can't stand him and he has to be an ass and push her buttons.

At some point, though, I need something catastrophic to happen to pull Sam into the world of the SGC, but I can't figure out what it is. I don't really want to use a plot point from the show, but it has to be something Rodney McKay can't solve on his own so he's willing to squash his ego long enough to recommend Sam who he only knows through a paper she published 10 years earlier before she disappeared from academia. Any suggestions? My mind is blanking on this.

registering for classes

Registration for Term 1 (August 25-October 22) starts today. I had already decided what I was going to take so it was simple.

My scheudle:
Term 5 (now: April 28-June 22): Intro to Sociology (100 level course) and Literary Theory (300 level course)
Term 6 (June 23-August 19): Context of Writing (300 level course) and Digital Photography (200 level course)
Term 1 (August 25- October 21): Fiction Writing workshop (300 level course) and The English Language (300 level course)

My head is spinning. The classes only get harder after that
Term 2 (October 27-December 23): probably Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop (300 level) and not sure
Term 3 (January 5-March 3): Advanced Fiction Writing Workship (300 level) and (probably) Popular/Contemporary Fiction (300 level)
Term 3 (March 9-May 5): New Media Writing/Publishing (400 level) and ??

The other 2 courses I need are a 400 level Lit course (I'm going with American Lit) and a 400 level interdisciplinary course about how things today will affect our future (or something to that effect).

If I don't freak out and drop to part time I will graduate in May 2015 with the rest of the school.

But right now I'm seriously doubting my ability to handle all the stress. I worked on Sociology a the library today. Got first part of reading done and a quiz. Then I tried to work on my paper. Then next two hours I grew more and more frantic as I understood it less and less. Then I spent the next three hours on the verge of tears. Ugh. I also have a Lit paper to write on The Great Gatsby due Sunday.

My homework/assignments for this week:

• Read 2 chapters of Literary Theory (psychoanalysis and Marxist Criticism) which is 70 pages.


• Read 130 pages of Ceremony


• Read 32 pages of Sociology text


• Create post in Sociology discussing the text due Thursday


• Create post in Lit using one of the new Criticisms we learned to discuss a passage from Ceremony due Thursday


• Watch 3 short videos in Sociology and take quizzes after due Sunday


• Read a short paper in Sociology


• Write paper about how social structure and my family shaped my socialization process (no clue) due Sunday


• Write short paper analyzing The Great Gatsby using either reader-response, Psychoanalytical or Marxist criticisms due Sunday

So far I've read the first chapter 14 pages of Sociology and taken 1 quiz and tried to figure out the Sociology paper. I spent all day at the library doing this. I've read the chapter on psychoanalysis and 63 pages of Ceremony.

I'm becoming way overloaded already and these are "easy" classes. Ugh.

Tomorrow I have to take Brenna and Nora to school for "Muffins With Mom" at 8am. After I'm supposed to go to the library to spend the entire day working. Part of me wants to drive way up into the hills to Dougan Falls (hopefully there won't be a ton of people there until it gets hot--maybe in the 90s tomorrow) and just read and relax. Sigh.

Next week it more of the same except I have to come up with an annotated bibliography or the final paper on Ceremony even though I have no idea what I'm going to write about.

And all I really want to do is write. But there's no time. Or when I do have time, I'm too tired to concentrate.