Yeah it's like, actuslly the reason I love this canons and always offer it is because the original author writes very much the way I wish I could! (And occasionally people tell me I achieved it.) Like it's not that I'm slavishly imitating them, it's that I love the canon because it's like something I'd write.

(Also I think the people arguing about the question of more of canon/different from canon are missing the point that even if what I want in cql fic is something wildly creative and form defying, this is yuletide, yuletide has always been the exchange for 'i want more like canon in this tiny fandom with no fic".)