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[flemmings]

I have been reading metafandom and I have been reading fandom_wank and now I want an icon that says "HP fandom: a plague on both all your houses." I can't believe someone hasn't made one of those yet.

Anyone wants me I'll be in this corner writing dragon smut. And for every major wank I shall add yet another sex scene. The sorry state of fandom is indicated by the fact that there are now three lengthy sexual encounters in a story that began life as irreproachable gen. I may take them out because they're more or less gratuitous but then again, maybe I won't.

Only posting so I can use my pissed!Goujun icon. "I hope you assholes realize you've got *all* of Heaven against you now."




And in the midst of the chaos, happily a happy birthday to the effulgent luxetumbra.

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Do you think HP is the worst of them all- by size and (lack of) sanity?

Hard to say if it's the worst or just the loudest. There were nuclearly bitter fan wars in the old pre-Net days, that veterans would tell me about of a night, bragging of their scars; but if you weren't in that loop you never heard of them. Maybe some fandoms are still like that, hiding bloodthirsty vendettas from online snoops.

The size is the thing. HP is so huge you can be part of the fandom and never hear about the HP massacres. But the bigger anything is the more wackos it attracts and, well, see the wackos wacking. My own reaction to it all, aside from hormonally boosted despair for the human race, is The Man for All Seasons one: 'But for Wales, Richard?' All this fuss about the paper thin and quite unconvincing characters in Rowling? Shinjirarenai.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Thing is, given the paper thin and unconvincing characters, the fanwank has of late been more entertaining than the books themselves.

(If you're the kind of person who can be entertained by trainwreck-style fanwank, as I occasionally can be; it takes someone of a slightly immature frame of mind).

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It takes a godlike detachment, I think is what it takes. I wish I could convince myself that the demented bad manners of a few fans doesn't reflect much on fandom in general and says nothing at all about the human race; but in the bleak midwinter I find that a bit of a tall order.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

True; eight years of living in the Bible belt do give one a little amused detachment about horrible people.