[ SECRET POST #4318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4318 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

There was never that happy medium, though. It used to be all about worshipping her, at least in the main fandom. Those who ever said anything critical were instantly attacked. At least now it is safe to say negative things about her.

[(Anonymous)]

This, people are forgetting/are too young to remember that when HP fandom was in it's heyday, it was considered verboten online to critique even the series, let alone Rowling herself (who even then could be pretty...uh, strident with her views, as well as very sensitive to criticism) - this was when people mainly sporked fanfics; and it was only Twilight and then Fifty Shade that really made it a thing outside of livejournal comms to dare to criticise books themselves.
And Rowling always did attract a *very* devoted fanbase - iirc, it wasn't particularly unusual for people to refer to being Jo's Army etc., or for her to respond to minor disagreements (I remember when she wrote a post about weight, which came across as very well-meaning, but
also kind of stereotypical, so it was kind of 'Girls be bitchy, calling each other fat, even when they're not; whereas boys are just innocently befuddled by all this fixation on appearances'. Some tabloid called her out on how her books tend to make fun of fat people, and she wrote some big rebuttal on her website about how 'I'm not allowed to write X and Y'.) or for communities and posters to end up on fandom_wank for what would now be considered fairly vanilla opinions (liking Harry/Hermione; finding the Slytherins sympathetic, etc.)

[(Anonymous)]

liking Harry/Hermione

As someone who shipped it back in the day and witnessed some of the wank first hand: Nope! Specific fans got on fandom wank for, among other things:

- Posting the entirety of HBP with only a few minor changes to make it more H/Hr-shippy.
- Saying they knew how slaves felt like after being called "delusional".
- Claiming buying the books led to forced abortions in China. Yes, really.
- Insisting that, when JKR didn't come to an event because of her husband's illness, it was a lie so she wouldn't have to face the H/Hr shippers.

And that's just from the top of my head.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, well I'm the opposite, I never shipped it; but before f_w and jfen died, there was definitely a turn from 'let's make fun of genuinely wanky/unbalanced shit' (e.g. the stuff you listed) to 'LOL HARMONIAN' and 'LOL SNAPEWIFE' being ever-present comments to almost any discussion of HP, and narcissam in particular posting stuff that would now be considered just text critiques/meta. I don't doubt shippers and fans of all stripes were nutcases, that's always been the identifying mark of the HP fandom; but f_w by their end was very strongly leaning towards the passionate defences of the series/JKR and ignoring the wanky behaviour of people who liked what they liked.