Uh... okay. First off, your post didn't bother me personally in the slightest, and wasn't by itself anything that I'm referring to in this entry. When I said that I thought you were sensationalizing, I also meant about the generic R/S shipper, certainly not all of them. But this entry isn't about shipping, necessarily, or anything else, specifically. It's just about what each person's breaking point happens to be.
Mine have ranged from that infamous middle name to an age to major character points in the HP fandom. I have absolutely no compunction saying that I think JKR is completely addled in her head with some of the decisions she has made, and to wonder publicly whether she might be, in fact, smoking the crack. And while it may be in poor taste, it doesn't bother me to hear that people reacted very, very strongly to having their aspirations for the series killed. Killed dead, and in fact, with no more respect for the fans than they returned in kind.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a big girl and I can live with disappointment. But it's perfectly acceptable, IMO, in a fandom, to pick and choose the pieces of canon that you *want* to use, and to throw away anything you don't. Other people's opinions differ, but that's my stance.
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Re: Part the second
Date: 2005-09-16 02:02 am (UTC)Mine have ranged from that infamous middle name to an age to major character points in the HP fandom. I have absolutely no compunction saying that I think JKR is completely addled in her head with some of the decisions she has made, and to wonder publicly whether she might be, in fact, smoking the crack. And while it may be in poor taste, it doesn't bother me to hear that people reacted very, very strongly to having their aspirations for the series killed. Killed dead, and in fact, with no more respect for the fans than they returned in kind.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a big girl and I can live with disappointment. But it's perfectly acceptable, IMO, in a fandom, to pick and choose the pieces of canon that you *want* to use, and to throw away anything you don't. Other people's opinions differ, but that's my stance.