Perfect example of people discrediting their own fandom

[pez]

There's just this one thing I don't understand. I'm under the impression that HP fans will spend the weekend (or the next few days) reading their new book? Is it really that hard to stay away from LJ for a few days, instead of every single one of you saying SPOILMEANDDIEBIATCH? I mean, if it's something really important, surely your friends would know some way other than LJ of communicating the news to you. Or is it that hard to make a filter with all the non-HP fans you know and read that one for the next few days?

I'm probably staying away from my own flist for a few days, until I can stop reading things like OMGI'VEBEENSPOILED or SHUDDUPIDON'TWANNAKNOW or OMGTHISGUYDIDTHISANDTHATAND- I mean, it's good to get excited over a novel, but this is bordering stupidity.

Maybe I've just indirectly called 90% of my flist stupid, but that's what I'm thinking.

Comments

[genkischuldich.livejournal.com]

*Smile* It's rather difficult finding posts that aren't about HP, isn't it? Or people that don't mention it in some way.

Really, really odd, since I'm not buying into the advertising that suggests that everyone in the entire world is reading it.

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

I'm not :P

One day I will... maybe in oh... 5 years from now? When it's over and people have gone rabid (hopefully) over something else.

[spiritaway.livejournal.com]

Luckily I am not part of HP fan ^^

[fic-faery.livejournal.com]

I think it has gotten a bit out of hand. I mean if you can't trust your flist not to use lj cuts labelled spoilers why do you have them friended.

Although I can't really relate to those that don't want to be spoiled as I'm the one in the book store skimming to the last couple chapters to see what's happened in the book >.>

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I've been saying in comments to people.

It's like "Bitch please"... they seem to be going around bitching about being spoiled instead of... oh, I don't know... READ THE FRIGGIN' THING?

*sigh*... so glad I'm not in that fandom... and have not read anything since vol. 4 even.

[farohji.livejournal.com]

to quote Fandom Wank: Harry Potter is serious buisness!!!!

[factorielle.livejournal.com]

There are two conflicting instincts : the one to share what you've just read with whoever has stayed long enough to listen, and the one not to look at what other people have just read.

Well, I'm done with it, so I'm safe. ^^

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I mean, I can understand that you're bored with the HP talk, but after two years of having left the fandom, there's still 80% of my flist who came to LJ to talk HP, even if most of us have moved on to other pastures. So they talk HP. And now, chronologically:

- Yes, most of us will be reading it this weekend.
- Speaking for myself, my flist is my online home, and I do not *want* to stay away from it even if I am reading a book I do not want to be spoiled for.
- I think people spoiling suck, I think it's basic netiquette not to spoil anything. I make cuts for stuff in a book or movie that happened two years ago. I wanted to let people know that, so that I could take them off my reading list in advance, so that I wouldn't feel like I would have to kill anyone.
- Yes, my friends would find another way of communicating with me, if it was that important. But if one of my friends would be, say, upset about something, and only posted to LJ, and did not send me an email about it, then I would not know about it and could not react to it. I don't like that. Furthermore, as I said above, most of my flisters got onto LJ to talk HP - so why should we all decide to go offline during one of the big HP happenings. (Also, I haven't seen a single person who is or was actually *in* the HP fandom spoiling.)
- And yes, that's what I am doing - reading the non-HP fans and those who I can trust not to spoil through three years of experience of them not spoiling anything.

As for you staying away - that's anyone's prerogative. But fangirling over something, and going insane about something new happening, is something I am surprised to see you mind-boggled by.

Personally, I had the characters living in my brain for years, I read, I wrote, I worked 50 hour weeks for a whole summer at an HP archive. This fandom pwned me, the characters did, too; and as with old lovers, I am still very fond even of those whom I do not like to read fic about anymore. Also, one of my old OTPs has been given much canon-attention in the new book, my current OTP gets some lovely interaction, so yeah, this is me going crazymad after two years of no new canon. If that's stupid, then that's stupid. I've been called weird and stupid often enough for fan activity, so whether it's going mad about a book, having bitter ship-wars, spending thousands of dollars to go to a country to see a musical one doesn't understand a word of, spending a weekend before an exam reading FujiZuka fic - it's all the same kind of madness to me.

♥

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that I'm mind-boggled by the craze (well, I am, but more in a neutral than negative way), I was saying there was so much yelling and screaming on LJ about not wanting to be spoiled which is unjustified when there are so many other options available.