"Y'All Jus' Jellus!" The Scary World of Fandom

[Mutagen]

I hope Santa brings all those people a big fat lump of melanoma for Christmas.

[jaghetersimon]

They do realize that that chick was a beard, right?

[Libelle]

Fresh craziness from the Harry Potter fandom, via Fandom Wank. Yay for "prejudism" in fiction! Go, Purebloods, go!:

But going back to ancestry and tradition, it's that, I think, which is the ultimate problem with mudbloods. That's why Purebloods can't accept them. And I'm looking at this from the Pureblood side, keep in mind. It's not perfect, it's not infallible, certainly. But it's understandable. They've got no lineage, no ancestry, no tradition. They're strangers. Complete and total strangers. The wizarding world is a world that is barred from Muggles, those who don't belong, who are not one of them.

I can't stand bloodtraitors for the same reason I can't stand mudbloods ... they're bringing in Muggle culture into wizarding culture ... and I'm sorry, but I hate how our world turned out, so anybody who's fascinated with it or sees any aspect of it better than in the wizarding society automatically gets my cold-shoulder.

[Malle Babbe]

<sacasm> Yay Purebloods! Let's inbreed and raise our kids to be spoiled little shitheads like Draco and those two beetlebrowed throwbacks that follow him around Hogwart's!</sarcasm>

and I love the following quote:

And prejudism isn't always heinous. Prejudism is not letting a ten year old near a stove; it's not letting your fourteen year old daughter date an eighteen year old boy; it's teaching your child not to talk to strangers.

No hon, that's having good sense... Well no, actually that's not, that's making up words for social outlooks you are too damned inarticulate and ignorant to formulate properly.

[Deleted]

That 'pureblood' stuff is pure batsh*t crazy. Does that person not realise that (a) um, given s/he isn't a Harry Potter wizard then in the context of the Harry Potter universe s/he logically is a 'muggle' and thus one of the people being looked down on, (b) the term 'mudblood' isn't exactly a subtle example of a word that clearly doesn't have very nice connotations when used against a person and (c) the frickin' Harry Potter wizards aren't even real in the first place??!

Justifying a real, existent prejudice is bad enough. Justifying a fictional one is looney-tune material.

Love also this:

To me, Arthur is just JK's little comfort tool. She knows that the wizarding world is no comparison to our world ... again, you know, magic ... so she doesn't want all the little kids who read her book to feel sorry for themselves and hate their world and wish they could all be wizards, so what does she do, she goes and brings in a character who is actually fascinated with our world. Like she's trying to say, "It's okay, folks, it isn't all that, even wizards think we've got it pretty cool!"

Because it's entirely beyond the realm of logic that he could exist to show that the so-called 'ordinary' world can be just as extraordinary and magical, if looked at from the right perspective.

[realitybug]

Wow...just wow.

Sometimes...people take fiction wayyyyyy too seriously.

[glitterbug]

Prejudism?? Don't they have dictionaries in the wizarding world??

[pepper67]

Prejudism?? Don't they have dictionaries in the wizarding world??

Looks like they're pretty short on sanity over there too.

[alby]

Who writes stuff like that?

Draco Malfoy is not real. He is not going to invite you over to a fancy "no elbows on the table dinner" and then give you your first tongue-kiss in the courtyard of his parent's gothic castle because of your eloquent prose defending his (fictional) way of life.

I hope that the writer of that masterpiece is actually a teenager who will laugh with their friends about the ridiculousness of their fandom in 10 years or so.

[Malle Babbe]

glitterbug said:

Prejudism?? Don't they have dictionaries in the wizarding world??

See? You are just holding on to non-Wizarding vocabulary in attempt to make yourself feel better after being confronted with your Muggle inadequacies. Purebloods are simply so enlightened that they can adapt language to their own use, since they are so often involved in things that are beyond your puny mudblood comprehension!

I mean, just because Voldemort could easily be taken out with a head-shot from a sniper rifle is no reason for you to get all uppity with Muggles and their "scientific" developments. Yeah sure, they invent stuff all the time, but not one of them is going to be a Quidditch champion anytime soon!

ETA: Should I be at all worried by the ease with which I can imitate an annoying fanboy?