[ SECRET POST #6948 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6948 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin]



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[Heated Rivalry]



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[Law and Order SVU vigilante justice > Batman-style vigilante justice]



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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

An image of a box set of the original Bloomsbury editions of the Harry Potter series. Accompanying text reads, 'I miss the HP fandom from before the last two books released. There was so much more creativity and fun back then, and the focus was on Harry and friends. After HBP and DH? It became the Severus Snape show, and I hate it. Not least because his fans won’t fucking shut up about the greasy bat.'

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't gone near the HP fandom since 2014, but tbh I really miss the fan theories and the fanfics born from them prior the last book's release. I was getting all my fics from ffnet at the time and there were some great stuff coming out.

[mishey22]

I always felt like people were pretty Snape-centered. Maybe that's just where I was on the internet, though

[philstar22]

It really did depend on where you were. The places I frequented had their own issues, but they didn't tend to be super obsessed with Snape.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. Places I frequented had a lot of people with strong opinions of Snape.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Sirius before book 4. Snape beat Sirius as my fave after. So Snape is great. Anyway Draco was the most popular in my HP corner so not sure if the trio was ever number one.

only vaguely related

[(Anonymous)]

but I follow r/askhistorians (great sub, strict moderation and interesting answers) and today someone asked a question about the release of the first HP book. It follows the age guidelines of the sub but it is just very weird to be reading about that as an historical event. It wasn't that long ago! Or I'm just old.

Re: only vaguely related

[(Anonymous)]

I looked it up because I was curious. It was 1997. 29 years ago. A whole Alex Wolff or Kylie Jenner ago. Not one of the younger Stranger Things kids had been born. I feel old.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I did like the last two books, but the fandom just felt, more open back then kind of. There was more potential and possibility and things to speculate about and explore before everything was wrapped up. And of course we had the anticipation of the last books.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Not that I was ever in the fandom, but I've always hated Snape and have absolutely no clue how people could like him so much.

[(Anonymous)]

The worst part is that Snape was one of many things in the series where the fan theories and predictions ended up being a lot more interesting and nuanced than the canon endgame. So then you get to the last 2 books and not only is it the Snape show but it’s the “series finale of HIMYM” version of the Snape show.

[(Anonymous)]

YMMV

Pre-Books 6&7 was when ship wars got really bad. The last 2 books broke the dam, but I felt like a lot of the toxic elements of the fandom had already began spoiling the fandom.

HP fandom was fun, but I think everyone had vastly different experiences.

[(Anonymous)]

HP was the first fandom I was in where you had a large contingent of fans that were convinced that their clearly non-canon ship was going to turn out to be the secret true canon. Like, the trio pairings were blatantly, extremely obvious by book 3 at the latest. And while Remus/Tonks came out of fucking nowhere, it ws also blindingly obvious that Remus/Sirius was never actually going to be more than a fan ship. Before HP, plenty of people shipped all kinds of non-canon stuff. Like, that's what fanfiction was for. But the wizard books turned shipping all weird and srs bsns.

[(Anonymous)]

So... fans of a character are focusing on this character? Nothing wrong or new with that, IMO.

Snape has been a very popular character for a lot longer than many of his haters are willing to admit. And some fans have mainly/exclusively concentrated on him long before the last two books. Same for several other HP characters. Consider the Marauders fandom, for instance.

Also, some haters spend a lot more time talking about him or his fans than about what they like in the books.

To me, it seems like your only issue is that you hate the character, which is your right, but blaming his fans for loving him and expressing their love in fandom space is, IMO, distasteful and unfair. It would be no matter the character. Unless you have concrete examples of them crossing the line, I'm lost as to what I'm supposed to do with this secret. Because "this is the Snape show" doesn't tell me much about their actions, and whether those actions were right or wrong.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

I'll go further: crossing the line in a way that other HP fans haven't.

[mercurios]

snape/rowling got lucky as fuck that alan rickman played the character. had it been anyone else i don't think the story would have been the same (yes i think that influenced rowling's writing by the end)