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[reenka]

So I was going to post another rambling thing on this-and-that, but then I saw this meme and it just had to happen, so. Go nuts. If you want :D

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Oh man.
I dunno if you're going to look back here, but what the heck.
Yeah, if there's anything I'm "infamous" for in the fandom, it's gotta be the that. Um. I -have- read them since, but.

It's like this.
- a) I HATED the bit of `Sorceror's Stone' I'd accidentally read ages ago, when it first came out. Hated. It.
- b) I procrastinate a lot, and I'd rather read slash fics in any fandom-- and most of them, I didn't know the canon for-- than gen young adult fantasy novels. So I put it off. And off. And off.
- c) I did care... but about what? It's hard to care about a canon you hadn't read yet. I cared about the characters, but that doesn't mean I -owe- it to Harry (for instance) to read PoA. It's like... is Harry going to resent me? So, I mean, since it's not schoolwork and what did it matter to anyone but myself (I thought), no, I didn't care much.
- d) I wasn't doing meta the same way a professor gives a lecture, man. I have no credentials. What differentiates me from the lunatic spewing nonsense on the street? Nothing! Only the number of people who choose to listen (and happen to agree). I cannot predict whether or not people want to listen to me or agree. I can only say whatever's on my mind just because I'm babbly like that.
- e) Meta isn't something I take seriously. It's a bit of mental slap and tickle. I pay as much attention to what comes out of my mouth as I do to tying my shoes (if my shoes had laces, I'm wearing sandals recently). Meta, shmeta. Who cares? This isn't a doctoral dissertation, man. Fast and loose and I'm just here for a bit of fun, eh?

As far as whether I'm a snob.....
Eh. I'm semi-elitist and semi-communist and semi-don't-give-a-shit-either-way. Not caring doesn't make me a snob-- there's a lapse in logic there. Pontificating while I know "nothing" so to speak-- that doesn't make me a snob either. That just makes me a poser. Am I a poser? Not really, since I never claimed to have inside knowledge-- I just happened to say in a confident manner, maybe?

I don't care about lots of things-- and conversely, care about lots of things. If you cannot tell what kind of person I am from my writing, I cannot help you. I don't know why I'm defending myself at all, really. Basically-- if you think I'm snobbish or whatever, then you don't know me at all and anything I say about myself you'd have to take on faith, which isn't very useful. There are tons of people who do meta in different fandoms, most of them more coherent than me. I welcome you to look at the entries in metablog in particular.