No biscuit.
Oct. 20th, 2007 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhOkay, JKR, your little victory tour where you're telling us all this stuff that you kinda forgot or was kinda too much of a wimp or whatever to put in the books? Like how Harry and Ginny were soulmates when they had, what, all of four conversations on the page? Or that no, the trio really do, erm, triple-handedly change the entire structure of the wizarding world in a few short years, thus ending the cyclical blood wars that have been plaguing the wizarding world for years, and yet we have to wait for Harry's kid to redeem Slytherin House?
Or, now, that a safely octogenarian and therefore safely nonsexual (and, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sistermagpie pointed out, apparently celibate since he had no affairs) character is gay? And I'm supposed to be all excited about this?
I'm not taking the crumbs, Jo. If it isn't on the page, it doesn't count. If you wanted us to know it, you should have written it in the books. If you wanted him to be gay, he should have been gay in the books. And maybe, just maybe, he could have had some past loves because gay people? HAVE PAST LOVES. I think we did away with the "gay people live tragic and lonely lives" trope back in the 70s, Jo. The Boys in the Band was a long time ago. This smacks of the worst kind of tokenism.
(Here's what you can do: ring up my uncle in CT. He's almost 80. He's gay. He not only has past loves, HE'S HAD THE SAME LOVE FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS.)
And let me say this again. If it's not on the page, IT DOESN'T COUNT.
Or, now, that a safely octogenarian and therefore safely nonsexual (and, as
sistermagpie pointed out, apparently celibate since he had no affairs) character is gay? And I'm supposed to be all excited about this?I'm not taking the crumbs, Jo. If it isn't on the page, it doesn't count. If you wanted us to know it, you should have written it in the books. If you wanted him to be gay, he should have been gay in the books. And maybe, just maybe, he could have had some past loves because gay people? HAVE PAST LOVES. I think we did away with the "gay people live tragic and lonely lives" trope back in the 70s, Jo. The Boys in the Band was a long time ago. This smacks of the worst kind of tokenism.
(Here's what you can do: ring up my uncle in CT. He's almost 80. He's gay. He not only has past loves, HE'S HAD THE SAME LOVE FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS.)
And let me say this again. If it's not on the page, IT DOESN'T COUNT.
