...strictly need-to-know basis, man.

[reenka]

Let's just say... I need to know!
HEHEHEH I AM SO AMUSED WITH MYSELF. AND ALSO HIGH FROM READING the_leaky's H/D PR0N OMG!!1


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...I'm sekritly scared of the people who chose 'h8tes', btw. I'M INNOCENT, INNOCENT I SWEAR. THINK OF THE BUNNIES!!

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[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Oh man <3
It's a weird three-pronged question-- meta, fandom, and text. The meta is both fandom meta & your perception of text meta-- that is, what the author intends. The fandom is what focuses your attention on it in the first place-- 'cause really, would you care about Neville otherwise, that much, or would you ignore him? And the text is at the root of all this, of course, and yet it gets... mutated by its spin-offs, so to speak, which bothers me to a certain extent. I mean, there's Neville The Character, Neville The Fandom Woobie, Neville The Textual Symbol and Neville The Author's Pet or whatever. Everything but discussion of Neville The Character is really letting lit-crit overshadow the piece of literature, which makes me :/ more than anything else.

This reminds me of people in my Fantasy & Folklore class talking about how it was pointless/unhelpful to over-discuss whether Tolkien's portrayal of the Orcs was an example of racism, because it detracted from enjoyment, which should be the main priority. And I guess that's how I feel too, but. *shrugs* If you feel that you can't read the text 'raw' anyway (at least at this point), then none of this matters, I guess ^^;;; *sigh*

[malafede.livejournal.com]

I am all over it! Now I am having writer's angst! Or rather, researcher's angst.

OMG THE HARDSHIP OF ACTUAL WORK.