FAST AWAY THE OLD YEAR PASSES…and…GOOD!

[euterpe5]

The strangest experience I have ever had in my life was participating even marginally in the online HP fandom in the area of shipping. And the culmination of this participation occurred during this past year when the Harry Potter online fandom literally imploded. How a character approaches love in his or her life, speaks to not only the crux of

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[mirtilla87]

Very nice post, Nia.

I agree that what has happened during the last months in the fandom has been, to say the least, absurd. How some R/Hr and/or H/G shippers have hunted us in our livejournals, forums is crazy, some of them went that far to actually take screencaps of forum posts. I believe that this would "phenomenon" is just the epitome of stupidity - and it's also rather pathetic. In a strange way it makes me sort of amazed the thought that some of them just come online to hunt us, makes me wonder if they have nothing better to do with their time.

Sorry, for the rant but I just had to get it out fo my chest. :-/

Mirty

[madderbrad]

Hi. I remember coming across some of your posts in the 'A Chapter A Day' community - very insightful and well written they were - which is why I've been lurking here. Enjoyed this post also, some good stuff to think about