Oh hell...

[spamhead80]

Having just temporarily extracted myself from the mire that is the current Harry Potter fandom, I feel the need to vent. What the ever-loving-hell is wrong with people? I consider myself to be a fairly big fan of the books; big enough that I stood in line at midnight the night that Half-Blood Prince was released. However, my compulsiveness regarding the book barely compares to some of the crap that I've seen in the past few days. Shippers (if you don't know what they are, they are essentially "relationshippers", or people who are pulling for certain pairs to become canon), some of whom have apparently invested unhealthy amounts of their own personal energy in the lives of fictional characters, imploding because their pair of choice was nixed by the evil J.K. Rowling. Whiny fans who expected her to champion this or that particular social cause bitching because she did not. Huge arguments over whether the book was a masterpiece or a piece of badly-written fanfiction. Bleh...

I was going to post some type of review of the book, mostly because it's in the forefront of my mind at the moment, but it looks like I'll be wading through this endlessly fascinating crap for the next few days. Yes that makes me a sad little person, but I have this strange fascination with some of the more "militant" fringes of most groups (and Harry Potter has got a seriously demented fringe). If any of the two people who have actually friended me (I'm so popular!) are interested, I can certainly provide links so that you can join in on the fun. Not that all of you jerks have actually READ the latest Harry Potter... grumble, grumble.