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skull_bearerIt's 4am and I have just realised what's been happening in the HP fandom since I signed off it in disgust. And before.
I wanted to find people who shared my opinion that HBP was rubbish, and ended up elbow deep in ship wars.
I'm amazed at what's been going on, although not that I didn't know. After all, Harry/Hermione or Harry/Ginny? *yawn* Pass the Snarry please...
But I didn't know of the sheer rivalry that's been brewing between these ships since the beginning, I thought they were just... there. And they got on just as well as Gun 'n Handcuffs and Loonies got on: I don't like the ship, but whatever, each to their own.
But instead I found that the bad feeling ran deep, I suppose it was because they were the most 'canonical' pairing, the one most liekly to happen, but honestly? I thought Harry was going to get together with Luna. And I didn't care.
Then HBP came out, and not only was it Harry/Ginny, but it was dreadful. I've rarely read published romance that's quite that bad. Even the Tanis/Laurana of Dragonlance was superior! And that was pretty much the equivelent in that universe.
So now nobody's happy. The Harry/Ginny die-hards are upset because their pairing was mangled, and the Harry/Hermione bunch are pissed because their ship didn't sail, and could tote the pairing as the reason the writing was so bad.
It might be true, Ginny was an awful character. Ginny-sue, they call her.
Some Harry/Ginny fans would be happy, of course, after all, if Raistlin/Dalamar was canon I would be squee-ing no matter how badly it was written... Actually, maybe not. What I like about the pairing is the characters, and HBP was character butchery. I'll keep my subtext, thanks.
But what happened after that could not have been worse. The infamous interview.
I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Muggle-net interviewers, personally. But JKR isn't exempt from the blame, to call an entire section of your fanbase delusional! Particularly one of a realistic ship! If you're going to name anyone delusional, name me, I like Harry/Voldemort for pity's sake!
So now not only are the Harry/Hermione group miserable, they're also feeling victimised. You just can't call you're fans delusional! Particularly like this! Anvil sized hints... for Ron/Hermione maybe, but Harry/Ginny? I'm sorry, I didn't see that one coming. And I still don't. As I said it was a lot of very bad writing. JKR sould leave romance to ficcers like Jade Tatsu, who can write a Harry/Voldemort romance and make us believe it. JKR couldn't make me believe Harry/Ginny.
The Harry/Hermione shippers are feeling betrayed, so am I. Not for the same reasons exactly, although many of them aknowlege that the book was bad, I couldn't care less about shipping, butI know a good book.
HBP was not one of them.
The interview just made things worse. HBP might have loaded things up, but the interview sent them to hell on a handbasket.
And now the shipping war is in full swing, and it's only going to get worse. Not that I mind, I don't care either way and it's something to watch, plus JKR might get the idea that her books are no longer as beloved as they once were.
Book 7 is going to be hell, and not just because my favourite character will die *sniff*, but there's so much hanging on that book. If JKR writes the wrong thing, she'll turn the fandom against her, and if she makes Snape a Death Eater... well, a part of me wants that to happen, just to watch the reactions. Snape is the character with the biggest fanbase (I don't count Harry, he's the protagonist after all), and to make him evil would be to a) screw the books up terminally, and b) turn the vast majority of her fans against her.
It would be something to watch, but I still like Snape, and everything I am loves good writing so I pray she doesn't do that.
Either way, if JKR thinks that what she wrote was in any way on a par with her previous books, she's the deluded one.
Skull Bearer.
I wanted to find people who shared my opinion that HBP was rubbish, and ended up elbow deep in ship wars.
I'm amazed at what's been going on, although not that I didn't know. After all, Harry/Hermione or Harry/Ginny? *yawn* Pass the Snarry please...
But I didn't know of the sheer rivalry that's been brewing between these ships since the beginning, I thought they were just... there. And they got on just as well as Gun 'n Handcuffs and Loonies got on: I don't like the ship, but whatever, each to their own.
But instead I found that the bad feeling ran deep, I suppose it was because they were the most 'canonical' pairing, the one most liekly to happen, but honestly? I thought Harry was going to get together with Luna. And I didn't care.
Then HBP came out, and not only was it Harry/Ginny, but it was dreadful. I've rarely read published romance that's quite that bad. Even the Tanis/Laurana of Dragonlance was superior! And that was pretty much the equivelent in that universe.
So now nobody's happy. The Harry/Ginny die-hards are upset because their pairing was mangled, and the Harry/Hermione bunch are pissed because their ship didn't sail, and could tote the pairing as the reason the writing was so bad.
It might be true, Ginny was an awful character. Ginny-sue, they call her.
Some Harry/Ginny fans would be happy, of course, after all, if Raistlin/Dalamar was canon I would be squee-ing no matter how badly it was written... Actually, maybe not. What I like about the pairing is the characters, and HBP was character butchery. I'll keep my subtext, thanks.
But what happened after that could not have been worse. The infamous interview.
I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Muggle-net interviewers, personally. But JKR isn't exempt from the blame, to call an entire section of your fanbase delusional! Particularly one of a realistic ship! If you're going to name anyone delusional, name me, I like Harry/Voldemort for pity's sake!
So now not only are the Harry/Hermione group miserable, they're also feeling victimised. You just can't call you're fans delusional! Particularly like this! Anvil sized hints... for Ron/Hermione maybe, but Harry/Ginny? I'm sorry, I didn't see that one coming. And I still don't. As I said it was a lot of very bad writing. JKR sould leave romance to ficcers like Jade Tatsu, who can write a Harry/Voldemort romance and make us believe it. JKR couldn't make me believe Harry/Ginny.
The Harry/Hermione shippers are feeling betrayed, so am I. Not for the same reasons exactly, although many of them aknowlege that the book was bad, I couldn't care less about shipping, butI know a good book.
HBP was not one of them.
The interview just made things worse. HBP might have loaded things up, but the interview sent them to hell on a handbasket.
And now the shipping war is in full swing, and it's only going to get worse. Not that I mind, I don't care either way and it's something to watch, plus JKR might get the idea that her books are no longer as beloved as they once were.
Book 7 is going to be hell, and not just because my favourite character will die *sniff*, but there's so much hanging on that book. If JKR writes the wrong thing, she'll turn the fandom against her, and if she makes Snape a Death Eater... well, a part of me wants that to happen, just to watch the reactions. Snape is the character with the biggest fanbase (I don't count Harry, he's the protagonist after all), and to make him evil would be to a) screw the books up terminally, and b) turn the vast majority of her fans against her.
It would be something to watch, but I still like Snape, and everything I am loves good writing so I pray she doesn't do that.
Either way, if JKR thinks that what she wrote was in any way on a par with her previous books, she's the deluded one.
Skull Bearer.
