A silent excommunication; fandom observations both personal and at large
A long-time LJ friend de-friended me a few days ago. The act was done in silence; no warning, no notice, no message ... no courtesy. Just a silent disconnection. The event that apparently caused this reaction has aided me in making an observation about the HP fandom as it is at present, which I'll discuss a little further below.
( The post-mortem and how the event is symptomatic of a larger fandom trend. )
( The post-mortem and how the event is symptomatic of a larger fandom trend. )
I haven't make my own entry over there but I will after this. Oh, and thank you for the referral!
She de-friended you because your lack of common interest within the same fandom was too much. Yet she ships R/Hr, who have no common interest at all.
Heh, nice, I like it.
What is it to people that someone likes something they don't?
Well, I can understand wanting to keep the contrary elements at bay. Myself, I welcome discussion and analysis; I feel so much stronger in my beliefs afterwards. Or I've had to modify my opinions if they were proven incorrect. But some people can't handle that, or they want to believe in something that they know doesn't hold up. I can't *respect* that stance, but why should they care what I think?
I know that my ex-friend is an ... enthusiastic ... OBHWF fan and probably wouldn't welcome discussion of all that detracts from that, so I never essentially never engaged on those grounds. But this innocuous comment of mine a week ago - hey, I've been speaking to some folk who enjoyed the non-canon movie scenes - that didn't touch on her precious pairings at all.
Which is why I cite the event, and the ex-friend, as perfect personal examples of the panic I've observed at large that some quarters of the fandom are displaying with the current movie. Just the barest whiff of finding the non-canon scenes attractive is poison to these threatened fans!
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