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

[shantari.livejournal.com]

To be fair, there was definitively shitty stuff done and said by H/Hr's pre-HBP as well. I'm mostly annoyed when people tend to gloss over the things done on the side that turned out to be right. Many H/Hr-shippers had difficulties debating on the mugglenet forums simply because they got hounded more by the moderators on lesser infractions than R/Hrs. There was some modbias there, and well mugglenet in general was probably the most biased site I've ever seen that still dared calling itself a general site.

For Pete's sake, they even edited official pictures that didn't look "canon" enough for them to have as their layout. When they felt a need to edit pictures which had Harry and Hermione standing close together to have it be Ron and Hermione, that's when I honestly stopped caring.

There's probably way more sane R/Hr's out there (think I have a couple of more on my flist) but they probably stay away from the mess. They'd probably be "accused" of being H/Hr if they protested so why bother?

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah... I got "accused" of being HHR on the Gaia forums. It wasn't in a mean way, but I was probably a little nasty answering. "I know it's a difficult concept for you to understand defending someone that you have no stock in, but there is such a thing as being unselfish". It's true, though- you defend a ship and you must like it. How incredibly selfish a thought process that is. I'll defend Neville/Luna shippers, but I haven't got anything nice to say about that ship at all. Nothing mean to say, but nothing nice either.