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Can't we all just get along? I mean, about book six, of course.
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
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I'm just going to read on a filter until all the shrieking dies away.
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Likely case: Off sometime mid week, back Saturday.
Frankly, I've quit my job, my last day is Friday, and things are winding down, so it would be nice to have that to keep my mind occupied as opposed to OMG I have quit my job.
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I wonder if I'm the only person taking my time reading the book? I figure I'll just read a couple of chapters a day, because that's all I have time for...between the job, the house, the kid, the writing--can't fit in a lot more.
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(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.
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Thanks!
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As usual, my dear, you make good, sensible points.
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However, Rach was just spoiled by a news site, so I'm worried that I'll have to cut myself off completely from the internet in general and even my friends until Friday. Which will make for a lonely miserable last week at work, let me tell you.
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As for spoilage? I mean, I want facts revealed to me the way the author intended. It's why I write crappy summaries, and why I almost never read the backs of books anymore if it's been recommended to me already.
*nailbites*
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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.
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*clings*
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That said, ship icon!
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Word to the wordy word word word.
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I'm sooo disassociated from stuff out here.
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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
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I know people who liked OotP and I think that's fine; I didn't enjoy it but I'm hoping that I'll enjoy HBP more.