The Name Is Insanity. Patented Insanity.

[ladymirth]

The HP Fandom has transcended complete madness and passed the horizon of utter, rabid insanity is has come out the other side into the still, calm surface of manic sensibility. I mean, I knew that this fandom is a pretty scary and complicated place to be in sometimes, what with the flame wars and the inter-fansite politics but this, this is friggin unbelievable! 

http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_penny/1074.html

And to think this was going on even past the release of OotP! I joined the fandom in late 2002 and I didn't even KNOW about Gryffindor Tower. And here I was thinking I ws on top of fandom events! 

And all this over...what? Fricking fictional relationships between fictional characters in a book series we all love? Climbing the totem pole of  fandom popularity? How pathetic are these people's lives, really? 

And how appalingly uncivil, immature and...spiteful! How petty! These are authors whose work I've read and admired! I can't believe that such ostensibly sensible and nice people could have instigated such hateful flamewars! Because of friggin SHIPS?! They hated ships that much?! I mean, I detest Clana, but before I start smear campaigns over entire fansites and authors over it....It's unthinkable! 

I officially hate shippers. Forget money, shippers are the root of all evil. From now on, I'm reading genfic only. And I'm going to stick to my beloved LnC fandom. Never have I felt prouder of being a FoLC. We, at least, have a great tradition of tolerance and maturity. *preens* 

*hugs LnC Message Boards*  

Thanks to anotherdreamer5 for the link! Although she COULD have warned that once you start reading it, you can't stop. <g> The effects of horrified facsination. You never realize it's potency until you come across something like this. It's Fandom Reality TV! 

Comments

[ajroald.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable, isn't it? And to think that most of these people involved are ADULTS (and I'm using that term very loosely)! Then add the *canon* factor into that, and you can get some raving lunatics...

Thanks for the interesting read this morning though!

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

Hey you,
Long time, no see at all! What've you been up to? =)
Adults? Try overgrown toddlers throwing tantrums in their cyber playpens! They need some serious therapy!
You're welcome. I got it from Miranda, who I think is also in your flist.
But now I'm paranoid. You are a real person, aren't you? Not some closet manic-obsessive attention seeker's sock puppet, are you? =D I'll never feel safe on LJ again. Cassandra Clare and Heidi Tandy must both be scarred for life! I wouldn't go over to Journalfen if you paid me.

[ajroald.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday by the way!

I've been around, just mostly a lurker these days. Have lost quite a bit of interest in the fandom, and was very disappointed in book 6. It read more like fanfiction in my opinion (Harry suddenly realizes Ginny is there, and she squees, jumps into his arms, and snog madly until he has another *moment* and they break up)...

And I am real enough *laughing*... The early days in the fandom were brutal, that much I remember. *Ship* wars and *canonism* (that's not canon so you shouldn't write it crap) was way out of control, and the flames were nasty (just ask someone who wrote Remus/Ginny for the most part). Without CC/HT and a few others, though, the fandom wouldn't be what it is today, so my hat is off to them both and all they indured.