Migrating fandoms
I find the whole idea of having to rip up my very comfortable roots on LJ and try to set up somewhere else extremely depressing. I also find both the thought of LJ policing artistic content and the thought of drawings of/stories about children having sex disgusting. I resent both being told that LJ will delete journals on their whim (but not for
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The prevalence of this kind of stuff is the reason that I've never really engaged properly with HP fandom, I think; I mean, I've followed links from people I trust and read some excellent fic, but even then I've sometimes stumbled across things that make me boggle and want to wash my hands. (And I don't mean squidfic - I mean romances between Snape and Harry, while Harry is a child at school, with Dumbledore nodding approvingly when one of his teachers beds one of the kids.
I mean - what. The. Fuck.????
It is a mess of course, because a lot of fandom are the same age as/only a little older than Harry and co, and so if they themselves fancy Snape/Lupin/whoeverthehell, then they're not going to be pinged with the same degree of GetTheFuckAwayFromThatChild as an older reader, perhaps. And then - oh, it's just a fucking carcrash.
I spent the whole of yesterday writing an essay about this at home (where I have no 'net connection), and it just makes my head hurt.
I like LJ. I'm not mad about Six Apart's various alterations - I was quite happy with it before they took over, and the changes they've made haven't made it any better, imho, at least for my own requirements.
So - not thrilled about moving.
And I really, really REALLY do not like Chan. I don't like the fact that Chan is apparently a pretty mainstream part of online HP fandom. At all. There is a line in the sand, and adult/child sex sure as hell isn't on the side where I'm standing.
(Now, if we're talking about the age of consent, that's another messy kettle of fish. But afaic, regardless of what country you're in, in the modern world adults are over 18. Young adults are over 14. Children are under 14.)
Not taking a stand that writing NC17 fic (or making such illustrations) involving 11 year olds is A Bad Thing is tacitly approving it. Which is in itself A Bad Thing.
Frankly, I'm good with Chan vanishing from LJ, and indeed the rest of the 'net. More than good. Delighted.
BUT, my God, it's jarring to feel that I'm sitting back while the powers that be make part of fandom wear some kind of yellow star or pink triangle (perhaps a purple wand?) and I'm sitting back comfortably saying "Yes, well, they're the pervy bad fans. But we're the good guys!" When I do think that HP Chan (which is, by my understanding [after one really long argument with a Chan fan] largely consumed by women, who are largely empathising with the younger party rather than the older, and blah blah blah Freudiancakes) isn't functioning in the same way as child porn, per se.
(But God knows, I may just be trying too hard to understand something that makes my head explode, and inventing shit.)
Still - what next? It's Chan now - will it be *all* NC17 fiction next?
...even though I want to draw a line in the sand, and disown Chan, I still kind of want Fandom to up sticks en masse and leave LJ. Because they are being unprofessional fuckwits.
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Yeah, that.
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