~~ sudden snarky fandom post. wtf?
Jul. 26th, 2003 04:03 pmthis is v. stupid but-- when people say "draco/harry" it kind of annoys me. HarryxDraco is okay, but draco/harry is not. heh. it sounds weird, doesn't it? what is draco doing there, in front of harry? what? what? hee. i think it's only used by people not in the fandom, so it's perfectly natural they say things differently, but. i think it's this sense that it's some weird, alien ship that comes over me. what is this "draco/harry" thing you keep mentioning? i think it's just... i've been in anime fandoms, lurking, like, a year ago, and this makes me think of dom!draco, who basically freaks me out, man. i don't know why he should. i think dom!draco is almost equivalent to fanon!draco, whoever -that- is. but if he's dom, he's smooth and classy and mysterious and suave, right. you can't have pathetic-dom!draco, though that would highly amuse me.
see, really, he should top from the bottom, but it's still funny to think of harry doing it ('cause obviously he would, in my little world). hee. "no, no, not THERE, malfoy, -THERE-!!" or "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO ME BEFORE I DO THE JOB MYSELF!! >:O"... it would be much better if draco was saying that. i am rather shallow about it, too.
i think it's partly that some of the self-important things people say who have no clue about the "mainstream" fandom bother me. like, there's this segment of the fandom which isn't "involved" but they kind of sit on the bleachers and comment snarkily about the goings on, feeling smug that they're not in the fray. i mean, it's okay to be snarky if you're including yourself in the put-downs, but. yah. that's not really related to the draco/harry thing, which is just me being silly, btw. i'm actually -in- the fandom and i know what goes on to some degree (at least, i'm not too confused), but i never say anything simply 'cause it doesn't tend to -involve- me.
it bothers me that people i would otherwise admire (because they seem good enough writers, mostly) feel they need to voice these things which are kind of beneath them since they are clueless. all the people saying that "they" (er... the hp lj fans) are childish and silly and need to grow up. that is human nature-- people are silly and need to grow up. we as lj hp slashers aren't any sillier than anyone else. what is this need to point fingers that people have? i can't even believe i'm typing this, but who cares, i'm not talking about anyone in particular and it's just something that i keep seeing. so many people -i- have respect for don't have much respect for others that they don't even know. what's up with that? if you -know- the person, then you're entitled to an opinion. even if you -don't-, you're entitled to an opinion-- opinions don't require entitlement. it's not that i'm disputing their right to be silly. it's just that it -is- silly, or wankworthy, and they're sitting there, wanking others.
am -i- putting myself above "them" by writing this? is this wanky? i have no clue. i'm not talking about "them", anyway. it's everyone-- everyone's wanky at one point or another, so why act smug? why is there this need for divisiveness? of course, i know why. there's simply the natural human tendency to form cliques, and the people left out of some clique tend to feel it's now fair game to be inconsiderate and "objectively" mocking. 'cause obviously, some people deserve to be mocked even if the ones mocking have no clue what they're mocking.
( wankwankwankwank :-S )
see, really, he should top from the bottom, but it's still funny to think of harry doing it ('cause obviously he would, in my little world). hee. "no, no, not THERE, malfoy, -THERE-!!" or "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO ME BEFORE I DO THE JOB MYSELF!! >:O"... it would be much better if draco was saying that. i am rather shallow about it, too.
i think it's partly that some of the self-important things people say who have no clue about the "mainstream" fandom bother me. like, there's this segment of the fandom which isn't "involved" but they kind of sit on the bleachers and comment snarkily about the goings on, feeling smug that they're not in the fray. i mean, it's okay to be snarky if you're including yourself in the put-downs, but. yah. that's not really related to the draco/harry thing, which is just me being silly, btw. i'm actually -in- the fandom and i know what goes on to some degree (at least, i'm not too confused), but i never say anything simply 'cause it doesn't tend to -involve- me.
it bothers me that people i would otherwise admire (because they seem good enough writers, mostly) feel they need to voice these things which are kind of beneath them since they are clueless. all the people saying that "they" (er... the hp lj fans) are childish and silly and need to grow up. that is human nature-- people are silly and need to grow up. we as lj hp slashers aren't any sillier than anyone else. what is this need to point fingers that people have? i can't even believe i'm typing this, but who cares, i'm not talking about anyone in particular and it's just something that i keep seeing. so many people -i- have respect for don't have much respect for others that they don't even know. what's up with that? if you -know- the person, then you're entitled to an opinion. even if you -don't-, you're entitled to an opinion-- opinions don't require entitlement. it's not that i'm disputing their right to be silly. it's just that it -is- silly, or wankworthy, and they're sitting there, wanking others.
am -i- putting myself above "them" by writing this? is this wanky? i have no clue. i'm not talking about "them", anyway. it's everyone-- everyone's wanky at one point or another, so why act smug? why is there this need for divisiveness? of course, i know why. there's simply the natural human tendency to form cliques, and the people left out of some clique tend to feel it's now fair game to be inconsiderate and "objectively" mocking. 'cause obviously, some people deserve to be mocked even if the ones mocking have no clue what they're mocking.
( wankwankwankwank :-S )