Hobbitslash is definitely peaceful by comparison! I don't really get the argument either. I can see that it's natural for people with the same tastes to bond over those tastes, like if there are H/Hr shippers who don't like R/Hr they can talk about what they don't like about it and what they prefer about H/Hr, but I don't see the point in arguing over canon.
Actually, I asked someone once who thought this was important and wasn't crazy, and for her it was just that she had very different thoughts going into reading fanfic than I did. For her it mattered whether she could think this was possibly going to happen in canon when she read a fic. That's not something I relate to but I could see how she felt when she was reading it. Of course, I don't think she was somebody who argued about ships either. If you're talking about S/H vs. R/D or whatever, that just doesn't come into it. I don't think there's anybody who could honestly argue either of those couples are going to have sex in Book 7, yet people probably would still argue about it.
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Date: 2004-07-07 09:10 pm (UTC)Actually, I asked someone once who thought this was important and wasn't crazy, and for her it was just that she had very different thoughts going into reading fanfic than I did. For her it mattered whether she could think this was possibly going to happen in canon when she read a fic. That's not something I relate to but I could see how she felt when she was reading it. Of course, I don't think she was somebody who argued about ships either. If you're talking about S/H vs. R/D or whatever, that just doesn't come into it. I don't think there's anybody who could honestly argue either of those couples are going to have sex in Book 7, yet people probably would still argue about it.