Awww, my sympathies! It's always irksome when your fandom decides there is One True Canon and applies it everywhere - even when it's something you like, but especially when it's something you don't.

I'm going through my own version of this today, actually. I have been rereading a lot of Loveless fic, and being quietly annoyed by the way the anime version of their introduction is E V E R Y W H E R E. The manga is my only canon, and the anime directly contradicts it, so it throws me out of the stories! Because of course there's no labels for which version the author is working from.

Anyway, I hope you can find some non-IDW-infused fic somewhere to satisfy your need! Or at least feel spitefully motivated to churn out more words on your own fic. :D