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jlh100% 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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Date: 2005-07-09 09:54 pm (UTC)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*