For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways

[harp]

Foaming Rabid Canon Thumper(HP) :
1. An individual with the irrational, obsessive paranoia that somewhere on Earth, there is a person deriving happiness from the idea of a romantic relationship between Harry and Hermione.
2. An individual with the irrational, obsessive paranoia that somewhere on Earth, there is a person deriving happiness from the idea of a romantic relationship between a pairing that J.K Rowling has not confirmed as Canon either in books or interviews.

I reach out to the rabids here and ask a simple question- what is it to you? What is it to you if someone likes Harry and Hermione? You have gotten your way. Is it not enough? Do you not understand that at this point you anger is literally nothing more than being upset* because someone else might be happy?

I've invited a few people here to comment, but I swear on all that is holy that I will do everything I can think of to stop this from becoming a war zone, even if it means throwing my hands up and saying "fine". There's no wrong way to ship (in this post) but can't we try to be civil? I know we can. Just look at Harp and Heron!

Ships are about the love between two (or more) characters. Shipping is about getting together with people who think the same way and enjoying your similar interests together. Real fans celebrate their ship with fun and sharing "squee" because their enjoyment is independent of the kid down the block liking another ship.

The people I am seeing are people who can do nothing but make the fandom into a pissing contest. There is no enjoyment, only competition. They belittle not only people ("Delusional!") but concepts that could possibly make these people happy (such as a simple eight second dance scene). They only get pleasure from their ship by picking it up and using it to beat up another ship. They are not fans in any sense of the word.

*Note: I will gladly and without question accept and not argue with "I just like being cruel and nasty to people who don't share my ship views" because I appreciate the honesty

Also, I don't care if "so-and-so started it back in 1942". The wars are over; we all know what's canon, and that's just the way it is whether you got your way or not.

P.S- Free quick-and-dirty art in this post to anyone who wants it, regardless of ship

Comments

[jean-c-pepper.livejournal.com]

OK- when I was in the H/d fandom about every 8 months, there would be someone complaining about how the bnf's controlled everything in that fandom. The bnf's, instead of saying "hmm-this keeps happening. What can we-because we care about fandom-do to ease this!" they ignore it and people are pissed or leave because of it. This has gone on for years. It was ONE of the reasons I finally left that fandom. The final straw was when I defriended someone who complained because -in the bottom draco comm- someone had commented distaste for them switching. Not your fic sucks, Not your characterization blows, but we-don't-like-it-because-your-fic-has-them-switch and wer' re-here-in-a-bottom-draco-comm-wanting-bottom-draco.
And with 64 comments(when I defriended) feeding into this self absorbent bullshit. I have some very good friends in the fandom and some are the so called BNF's and I don't know why they won't handle it.

I LOVE the batman/joker fandom because it is so drama free.

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

Ah yes! I forgot about the Big Name Fans! That's why I lost interest in Harry/Ron, in fact. Every fic out there, every picture was "Dedicated to---" one big name fan in particular. I was fed up with the ass kissing.

Dron is nice- no drama and it's such a small ship that if there are big name fans, they aren't at celebrity status. Everyone's just friends.