I think it's bad when I can't even go to TV-tropes without being reminded that "all that was ever wrong with the Harry Potter fandom ever was those darn Harry/Hermione-shippers" "they sent death threats to JK, you know"
It makes me want to scream to the heavens: "Both sides were just as bad and stupid, stop pinning it all on the ones that just happened to end up non-canon!!"
The webmaster who kept the HarryLovesHermione-site got death threats, and threats against her unborn child just for daring to have a site that had the idea of Harry and Hermione together, pre-HBP. You couldn't even argue that people were mistaking her for the rabids that came out post-HBP, she got those nasty e-mails long before the dreaded HBP even had a title! Harry/Hermione has been subject for immense hatered long before there was ever any real reason too. I can't speak for if it was the same for R/Hr, but my point remains that hating H/Hr and their shippers is not a new thing that comes naturally after the H/Hr-shippers acted like jerks.
I for my part, really don't like Neville/Luna. It's just "bleargh, where did that pairing even come from?" to me. I'm annoyed that there was some shiptease for it in the OotP-movie, and that hardly any of the Ron/Luna I saw in the book got in there. But I would never begrudge a Nev/Lun-shipper their squeeing. Nor would I ever go review a Nev/Luna, Ron/Her, Har/Gin, or any other pairing I dislike - fanfic for the sole purpose of informing the writer that the pairing is "wrong". In the case of Nev/Luna, I could say that it's non-canon, but what's the point, it's freaking fanfic!
TBH, this reminds me why homophobia is so incredibly difficult for me to grasp: You personally cannot possible be affected by what two consenting adults who are not you do in their privacy, why is it such a big deal?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chiming
no subject
Date: Thursday, October 7th, 2010 09:51 pm (UTC)From:It makes me want to scream to the heavens: "Both sides were just as bad and stupid, stop pinning it all on the ones that just happened to end up non-canon!!"
The webmaster who kept the HarryLovesHermione-site got death threats, and threats against her unborn child just for daring to have a site that had the idea of Harry and Hermione together, pre-HBP. You couldn't even argue that people were mistaking her for the rabids that came out post-HBP, she got those nasty e-mails long before the dreaded HBP even had a title! Harry/Hermione has been subject for immense hatered long before there was ever any real reason too. I can't speak for if it was the same for R/Hr, but my point remains that hating H/Hr and their shippers is not a new thing that comes naturally after the H/Hr-shippers acted like jerks.
I for my part, really don't like Neville/Luna. It's just "bleargh, where did that pairing even come from?" to me. I'm annoyed that there was some shiptease for it in the OotP-movie, and that hardly any of the Ron/Luna I saw in the book got in there. But I would never begrudge a Nev/Lun-shipper their squeeing. Nor would I ever go review a Nev/Luna, Ron/Her, Har/Gin, or any other pairing I dislike - fanfic for the sole purpose of informing the writer that the pairing is "wrong". In the case of Nev/Luna, I could say that it's non-canon, but what's the point, it's freaking fanfic!
TBH, this reminds me why homophobia is so incredibly difficult for me to grasp: You personally cannot possible be affected by what two consenting adults who are not you do in their privacy, why is it such a big deal?