Why else would i throw my book down in disgust? Why would I still be having misgivings about how Remus was written here? Because I do care.
I was much in the same way as you, & let me say, my resolve has never been stronger. The rational part of my brain is saying "it's only canon," while my fandom-beating heart is in anguish. But when it comes down to it, this is how I see it: ten thousand screaming fangirls just can't be wrong. Remus/Tonks may be canon, but Remus/Sirius has become our truth.
...Ah, what was that you were saying about trite and overblown? ;)
Oh man, but we're not getting any more recruits after this one are we? Not like the post-OotP stampede.
Ahaha! We don't need them! They can stuff it! We've got each other, sister.
I hear ya, sister. Much as you know something, it doesn't stop you feeling something else. And my emotions are usually stronger when it comes to something I really care about. People are saying that canonically the ship was dead after OotP but I never felt that way. I felt it had never been stronger.
ourmutualfiend was saying something similar to me, as well. People saw what they saw, lots of people, and the new book doesn't change that. I am thankful, at least, that the new information is not retrospective in any way.
I'm even seriously thinking about writing again. I know I'm always talking my arse off about that but I think it could actually happen this time.
LIVE ON. <- trite and overblown in Pulp-esque manner, therefore ironic. And the whole thing should be titled "This is truth tell me yours" anyway for a dramatic touch.
I wouldn't know - I was only just realizing there was such a thing as "fandom" around then. I'd read a couple Sirius/Remus fics, was really digging it, and then, bam. Half my new OTP was dead and I was devastated and I had a deadjournal, and wrote like 40 entries about how I was crying and what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-me, Sirius isn't even REAL. I was moping like hell for a week or so there, but the worst thing - er, aside from Sirius being dead - is that no one else got it, and I had no one to talk to.
So, this time around I am definitely a little...eurgh about the new canon, though it's not nearly as big a deal to me. All the same, I'm so glad for people like you and everyone you mentioned and my flist and people to slap you on the back and say This, man, this is nothing. LET'S KEEP GOIN'.
I'm even feeling very fond of remusxsirius right now, annoying as it is with the onoez I think we're sunk for good.
I wasn't around either, but I have the feeling there was a stampede - I could be wrong. As I also discovered the fandom after OotP maybe I am being self-centred ("of course everyone saw it after OotP ... "). I read the book and was just crushed, as the R/S bits were slipping into place for me (I had flirted with them before. The bits), and then 'wtf? that cannot be the end!' I was miserable and it was therapeutic for me to find that people were writing stuff that showed how much they cared for one another etc. I mean, all my friends read Harry and my flatmate read it and I kept saying, I'm in shock about something, let me know when you're done. And a day or so later I asked where she was up to
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I was much in the same way as you, & let me say, my resolve has never been stronger. The rational part of my brain is saying "it's only canon," while my fandom-beating heart is in anguish. But when it comes down to it, this is how I see it: ten thousand screaming fangirls just can't be wrong. Remus/Tonks may be canon, but Remus/Sirius has become our truth.
...Ah, what was that you were saying about trite and overblown? ;)
Oh man, but we're not getting any more recruits after this one are we? Not like the post-OotP stampede.
Ahaha! We don't need them! They can stuff it! We've got each other, sister.
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ourmutualfiend was saying something similar to me, as well. People saw what they saw, lots of people, and the new book doesn't change that. I am thankful, at least, that the new information is not retrospective in any way.
I'm even seriously thinking about writing again. I know I'm always talking my arse off about that but I think it could actually happen this time.
LIVE ON. <- trite and overblown in Pulp-esque manner, therefore ironic. And the whole thing should be titled "This is truth tell me yours" anyway for a dramatic touch.
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Ha! Cheers to that. "This is truth tell me yours" is the new "theirloveissocanon," btw.
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Hmmm ... thisismytruthtellmeyours? It doesn't work in the same way, la :( We'll have to keep the spaces. Change is good.
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There was a stampede?
I wouldn't know - I was only just realizing there was such a thing as "fandom" around then. I'd read a couple Sirius/Remus fics, was really digging it, and then, bam. Half my new OTP was dead and I was devastated and I had a deadjournal, and wrote like 40 entries about how I was crying and what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-me, Sirius isn't even REAL. I was moping like hell for a week or so there, but the worst thing - er, aside from Sirius being dead - is that no one else got it, and I had no one to talk to.
So, this time around I am definitely a little...eurgh about the new canon, though it's not nearly as big a deal to me. All the same, I'm so glad for people like you and everyone you mentioned and my flist and people to slap you on the back and say This, man, this is nothing. LET'S KEEP GOIN'.
I'm even feeling very fond of remusxsirius right now, annoying as it is with the onoez I think we're sunk for good.
YES! Go eat that pie.
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