It's everywhere

[lydiabennet]

Back in the Olden Days, if you were interested in say, Star Trek, you had to WORK for it. If you wanted to buy a Phantasy Fur Tribble, you had to go to a con or maybe travel hundreds of miles barefoot through the snow to a seedy little store, where you and your pale, shell-shocked fellow addicts would clutch the tribbles in trembling fingers and

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[lapin_agile]

You may have just explained why I'm feeling so ~meh~ about the GoF movie. Yes. It's on every bus and it's all over the Internet and has been for months and

*shrugs*

But I'm going with friends and we will fight the seven year-olds for the best seats and we will prevail!

And if that battle is the most exciting thing about it all, so be it.

I also think I'm feeling unenthused because ... what's with the long hair on those boys? ... how shallow is that?

[lydiabennet]

Yes, the fact that it's everywhere makes it seem just a little less precious. Not entirely; I do get this shock of OMG HARRY when Harry floats by on the bus. And there's this sense of validation when the culture at large doesn't seem to be defining one of my interests as de facto evidence of insanity. But a part of me misses that sense that a cool fandom thing was something you had to struggle to get. Slash is the same way; it now feels like something civilization is supposed to deliver to me at regular intervals, like a quart of milk, rather than OMG special! the way it was when you had to wait for the next Mary Renault.

Re: the hair; um, I'm in the shallow camp too. Harry's hair is supposed to be a bit of a disaster, true, but maybe not the kind of disaster that could end civilization as we know it -- which is where that hair leaves me. Maybe he's supposed to be going through an awkward phase.

[romath]

Thank you, Miss Bennet, I just laughed so hard that I snorted coffee up my nose. And should I be worried that I know who Mary Renault is, and remember waiting eagerly for her books to be published?

[lydiabennet]

Ah, the good old days, when tribbles were hard to come by (bad), and we could look forward to new Mary Renaults (good)! When Harry wasn't even in gleam in J. K. Rowling's eye (bad), but on the other hand we hadn't yet had to endure his hair (good)! When William Shatner still had his own hair on his head (good) but they had to shave it off his chest (bad)!

Maybe the good old days were a mixed bag. I still intend to complain, however, at every possible opportunity.