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[ilexx]

This isn't a friend-add request, but I was wandering through and just wanted to say that this:

I have but one word of warning. There are certain factions of fandom that I stray away from and do not associate with:

1. Rabid Shippers. This is true of any sort. I am not anti-ship, but I have no interest in people who frantically thump their ship as if it's canon (unless... well... it is). And for it to be canon, it MUST be in the book. This does not extend to subtext. Slash shippers? No problem; come on by. But your ship is not canon and I have no desire to be converted. I have friends who ship all sorts of things and love their ships dearly. And we get along just fine. Just don't try to convert me to your ship. If you do you'll find I've opened up a vicious side (madness within, anyone?) that you'll wish you'd never met.
2. Slytherin Apologists. You can love Slytherin House, Malfoy, and Snape all you want. People have their different favourite characters. But I've no idea what books people are reading if they think that Draco Malfoy is a deeply misunderstood, gentle character who loves leather pants. The Marauders weren't perfect but they weren't vindictive demons - James Potter and Sirius Black did not sodomize Snape in the Hogwarts bathroom, they did not "use" Remus Lupin, and neither of those two fictious instances caused Remus and Snape to form a super secret special friendship.
3. JKR Apologists. JK Rowling gave us a great book series that's captured the imaginations of thousands of people world-wide. She is by no means a terrible author, but she's not the world's most brilliant author either. She can make mistakes (just look at her math) and you don't have to like everything she writes. It is not wrong to dislike something she writes or to think the books may have been better if she'd gone in a different direction. Yes, you can't change what she wrote, but you don't have to like everything she did write. And no one needs Apologists jumping on those who dare to not take everything she produces as precious precious gold.

Rocks my world completely. Yes. A thousand billion times - YES.