Vaguely fandomy, despite being from work

[eruthros]

Ooooh, resonant8 has posted a new story! New story new story new story! It's HP/HG/RW, and m_shell tells me it's very good. I, being all sensitive to work-safe issues, as it were, am trying very hard to remember to read it when I get home. But everyone should go read it, because resonant8 kicks ass.

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Also, I have no HP icons. This should be remedied, but I'm kinda uncomfortable with doing icons of Harry or any of the kids because of the Cult around them. I mean, the whole thing where women four times their ages want to have sex with them. Eeek. And Remus has a ridiculous mustache. And Sirius was never my favorite. And Snape icons are a little Cult-of-Alan-Rickmany.

Maybe I should do icons of Gilderoy Lockhart. Or, or, Petunia. Or Dudley with a tail.

Clearly my problem here is that I'm uncomfortable with a fair amount of the tropes of HP fandom. Which is unfortunate, as there's also some really fun stuff going on there.

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Ever have someone friend ("trust?") you and defriend ("de-trust?") you inside of, basically, a day? I mean, I'm really horrifically slow at adding people to my friends list, because I forget to do it, or forget to check (because I still have trouble understand why anyone who doesn't already know this would want to read stuff), or am worried about being overwhelmed, but I hope it's not people who are all "well, if she didn't friend me back in two days, I'm leaving!" Or maybe I hope it is those people, because then I can be all "gosh, how immature" and pretend it has nothing to do with anything I say or do. Not that I'm in denial or anything.

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Comments

[zenappleberries.livejournal.com]

Er...I once did that to someone (not you) because I had heard they were a good fic writer (which they are) and didn't have time to check out their stuff before leaving the house, so I friended them. Later, I read their entries and found that most of her fics were about pairings or characters that didn't really interest me, and that I was just going to be skipping their entries on my Flist anyway, so I defriended them. I felt really bad though, 'cause they'd friended my back and everything, but y'know, I like Remus/Sirius. Sirius/Harry or anything (romantically speaking) involving Hagrid kinda squicks me. Please let nobody flame me for this, please let no one flame me for this...

[eruthros]

Well, see, that's the thing -- I figure people who write, or draw, or are active in fandom are used to that. People friend them because their stories were rec'd, or because they liked one story, and then they decide they don't like the stories as a whole and un-friend.

But I can't imagine anyone friending me without reading my journal or knowing who I am, since I'm not a fiction writer or anything, so then I find it weird when people friend me and then unfriend me instantly, because I wonder what they thought they were getting that they're not. Weird.