Can't we all just get along? I mean, about book six, of course.

[jlh]

100% spoiler free, mostly because I am managing to remain so, and I don't really plan on leaving LJ until I have to, which hopefully won't be until Friday for various personal reasons.

My request is that people be kind about whoever may or may not be dying in book 6. (By the way, JKR has said a million times that there is going to be a lot more death, so saying that there will be death in book 6 isn't really a spoiler IMHO.) After Sirius died, there were a lot of people who were made fun of for being upset, and that is just not cool. Personally, I don't care that much about Snape, but evil_erato and ali_wildgoose do, so it's not like I'm going to be posting "Happy dance that Snape died and not Seamus" if it's him that goes, because that is obnoxious and I act my age and not my shoe size.

(I realize that phrase loses something in the translation from the American, so I'll say: I am not 8 1/2 years old and I am not going to say "nyah nyah" if someone else's beloved character dies.)

By the same token, saying "my god it's just a character in a book" is ridiculous. You're the one that got the book at midnight, pally. You're in the FANDOM (or, at least, most of you are, but then those of you who aren't in the fandom are not inclined to say this shit anyway) so you are INVOLVED. Don't make fun of people who are involved but in some way that isn't exactly like the way you are involved.

I really don't get the self-centeredness and the casual disregard for other people's feelings. I know that LJ fosters that, but grow the fuck up or shut the fuck up. Those are your options.

Comments

[piperki.livejournal.com]

For how long do you plan to be gone?

I'm just going to read on a filter until all the shrieking dies away.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I act my age and not my shoe size.

(I realize that phrase loses something in the translation from the American...)

Exactly, because my shoe size is 40!! ;-)
I know what you mean though, and agree completely wiht your post.

[ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com]

Preach on, baby! *snogs*

[zorb]

I plan on putting any really hardcore squeeing/bitching behind a filter to those who I know will agree, if I find it necessary to do at all.

My flist has been good so far with the spoiler cuts, and I hope it stays that way once the book is out - with one thing and another, I won't be able to read it all in one go and will probably want to go online in the meantime.

[wednesdayschild.livejournal.com]

Ugh, ship wars :(

*clings*

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

When are you going to Houston?

[angiej.livejournal.com]

God, I love you. *clings*

Word to the wordy word word word.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

When's the book out again?

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

It's sad this has to be said within fandom, but thank you for saying it!

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I am totally self-centered when it comes to my Harry Potter experience. That doesn't mean I intend to make fun of people who get upset about something that doesn't bother me; that just means I totally do not want to hear about how stupid it is for Harry to speak in all caps, and how much of a waste of space Hagrid is, etc. Alternatively, I expect I'll once again *like* whatever Rowling does in terms of killing off characters, because I just like these books and am peculiarly, perpetually satisfied by the directions Rowling takes the story.

Therefore, I take the shut the fuck up option (I pretty much did this last time, except for a couple of comments in which I argued that Sirius' death was *not* badly written regardless of how sad it was to lose him. No, I'm not brave, just really stupid).

And I'm actually taking it one step further this time around: read no commentary about the book on LJ. All the ranting about OotP made me so sad, and made me feel really dumb for just plain *enjoying* the book, and nothing is going to spoil it for me this time, because YAY HARRY POTTER! <3 <3 <3