Comments | wisdomeagle: and this is who we are

wisdomeagle

and this is who we are

Oct 20, 2007 01:00

Apparently JKR thinks Dumbledore was gay. I... this makes me very pleased, you guys. In my gut kind of pleased. (It's not about the canon -- if it's not in the text, it's not my canon -- it's about the affirmation.)

In the meantime -- while I try to settle down from this unexpected good news -- fuschia asked about these seven icons:

( I would reciprocate, but do you know how frustrating this meme is on dialup? )

fred/giles, actors are paid to be pretty, harry potter, incest, icons, authorial intent, life is like fandom, everything buffyverse, queer for life!, kaylee/fred, vmars, matilda, cryptonomicon, the ari and elizabeth show

Comments 9

glitterberrys October 20 2007, 06:23:42 UTC

Okay, you? Are too cute for words. Nice devil horns, too.

wisdomeagle October 20 2007, 08:30:53 UTC

Thank you! >:)

mireille719 October 20 2007, 06:30:11 UTC

(It's not about the canon -- if it's not in the text, it's not my canon -- it's about the affirmation.)

YES. It's not canon to me because it wasn't in a book (or even a movie) but it is still awesome that she would say that, that that's how she envisioned him when she wrote.

wisdomeagle October 20 2007, 08:30:13 UTC

ICON! *dies and squeals just a bit more*

Dumbledore is gay! charis_kalos October 20 2007, 08:14:57 UTC

This has just absolutely and utterly made my day! Hooray!

When I was teaching the history of sexuality (including to Sangerin) we would occasionally have arguments in tutorials about whether or not we were past the need to claim great homosexuals in history as affirmation. You know, Shakespeare was bisexual, that sort of thing. Given the way the world is, still so very, very homophobic in so many places, I think the more notable openly queer people around the better. Including fictional characters.

So, again, hooray!

wisdomeagle October 20 2007, 08:26:44 UTC

This has just absolutely and utterly made my day!

Yes! Mine too. Totally.

think the more notable openly queer people around the better. Including fictional characters.

nodnod. It really does give me joy on a gut level that's nothing to do with my Harry Potter fannishness and everything to do with me as a dyke. (Though I'm totally all in favor of claiming people -- inc. historical figures -- as heroes and role models, I'm also in favor of people coming out. Or being outed by their authors. Whee!)

hermionesviolin October 20 2007, 13:52:32 UTC

I adore you a lot.

Especialy, y'know, for this:

On a practical level? I frequently use this icon when talking about librarians (since Fred and Giles both are them), and by extension cataloging, and by extension tagging posts on LiveJournal, which means that it's kind of defaulted to the Ari+Elizabeth Show Icon.

And now I feel like I should have an "Ari and Elizabeth show" icon.

wisdomeagle October 20 2007, 19:12:42 UTC

♥

(I've been off-and-on thinking of finding an image of Rabbit and Piglet for an official Ari 'n' Elizabeth show icon.

hermionesviolin October 22 2007, 13:16:30 UTC

This prompted me to blow through the Winnie the Pooh books looking for illustrations where Rabbit and Piglet "have scenes together." This was the best one I found. (I feel sort of bad that Rabbit like towers over Piglet, but Piglet *is* a Very Small Animal, so textually it makes sense.)

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