Immy
Anyone else fancy taking some quality time back on Immeritus? I know a lot of you haven't left but another lot of you have and whenever I go there, all the people hanging about there treating it like home and with hundreds of posts are people I've never met. I have whatever the online equivalent of social phobia is. It feels like going back to your old school and not only all the kids but half the teachers have changed, and no-one remembers you, and you feel like a bit of a loser for going back, as if you should have better things to do with your life by now. I really, really do have a lot of things to do (!) but I miss our little crew and all my friends at the moment just talk about medicine and exams all the time. *le dramatic sigh*
I don't have a million and one different new ideas about HP, so I'll probably hover in the library and have a nabber about other books. I can't remember now if there's a thread about women in fiction but I know I'd like there to be one and I suspect I may be able to entice in at least gonewithoutjam that way, and if I'm lucky a few of you other lovelies who like books (Canoodles I haven't seen on LJ for a while so I don't think I can get her like this; maybe nosinabook has time?). And Annie if you do, obv, although you always look scary-busy on Facebook.
EDIT: there isn't a women-in-literature thread. Just a very very antagonistic "sexism in HP" thread where we all got a bit het up and reductio-ad-Hitlerum was invoked. Hmm. Having established I want to have a nabber about women in literature, I have to actually come up with some initial debating points. Otherwise I'll just be saying "so, women's changing role as authors and as fictional characters, that's interesting; right, go!" which stimulates zero debate. Quick! Someone say something contentious! Hmm. Will have a think, but if anyone comes up with any fun ideas, let's go to Immy and discuss them. You're welcome to start the thread without me. We'll probably need to establish some ground rules though just to make sure we don't end up in an "I'm-more-feminist-than-you" quagmire. It really should be possible for grown-ups to discuss women's issues without detracting from the princples by which our friends live their lives.
I don't have a million and one different new ideas about HP, so I'll probably hover in the library and have a nabber about other books. I can't remember now if there's a thread about women in fiction but I know I'd like there to be one and I suspect I may be able to entice in at least gonewithoutjam that way, and if I'm lucky a few of you other lovelies who like books (Canoodles I haven't seen on LJ for a while so I don't think I can get her like this; maybe nosinabook has time?). And Annie if you do, obv, although you always look scary-busy on Facebook.
EDIT: there isn't a women-in-literature thread. Just a very very antagonistic "sexism in HP" thread where we all got a bit het up and reductio-ad-Hitlerum was invoked. Hmm. Having established I want to have a nabber about women in literature, I have to actually come up with some initial debating points. Otherwise I'll just be saying "so, women's changing role as authors and as fictional characters, that's interesting; right, go!" which stimulates zero debate. Quick! Someone say something contentious! Hmm. Will have a think, but if anyone comes up with any fun ideas, let's go to Immy and discuss them. You're welcome to start the thread without me. We'll probably need to establish some ground rules though just to make sure we don't end up in an "I'm-more-feminist-than-you" quagmire. It really should be possible for grown-ups to discuss women's issues without detracting from the princples by which our friends live their lives.