Comments | littleshebear: asoiaf fandom. *sigh* Again.

littleshebear

asoiaf fandom. sigh Again.

Aug 26, 2011 20:03

I've talked about this elsewhere but I'd kind of like to do it in a forum where I don't have to worry about being polite and I can swear as much as I like.

( Cut for racism, fandom idiocy, swearing, rage, minor/vague ADWD spoilers and potential TL;DR. )

racism, i fucking hate westeros.org, asoiaf

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gogoratchet August 27 2011, 00:34:26 UTC

Omg I hate her so much. What a horrible person

littleshebear August 27 2011, 03:05:33 UTC

I just want her to go away. If she's so "infuriated" with the direction the show is taking, she should just stop watching. We'll be happier because we won't have to listen to her nonsense and she'll be happier because she won't have to weep her purist tears anymore. It's a win-win.

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littleshebear August 27 2011, 03:15:24 UTC

If this was just Random Asshat Fan no. 2039, I could probably deal but she's from a semi-official fan-site. She gets featured on Sky One's tie-in show, she gets interviewed by the entertainment press, she's co-writing an encyclopedia, she's in contact with George Martin...and she's vile.

It's getting to the stage where I'm half-hoping that her vitriol will get worse, because that might force HBO/GRRM to have a quiet word with her. You can't be the admin of a sanctioned fansite and publicly bad-mouth the product. It's in GRRM's interests for this show to succeed and frankly, his biggest BNF's could end up damaging it.

The really funny thing about all this is that this Purist of Purists hasn't even read 1/3 of the third novel because she can't bear the thought of reading about her favourite character's death. I just...wow. She's so condescending and holier than though to other fans and she hasn't even finished the series. Of course, she maintains that not reading 1/3 of a very long book totally means you've read the whole thing and ( ... )

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littleshebear August 27 2011, 03:38:29 UTC

I've just noticed all the spelling mistakes in that last comment which is an indication that I probably need to stop. The Chaos Marines will still be there tomorrow. Sleep for the Sleep God.

I'm not really bothered about one of those characters because he's in a plot arc that I don't care about that much but the other one I like a lot. I don't give a shit if he's black, just long as he's a badass pirate who talks like Yoda, that's all that matters. And that's all that SHOULD matter, dammit.

And assbassoon is a good word and you should feel good for using it.

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bnh August 27 2011, 14:24:01 UTC

oh, god, she's AWFUL.

littleshebear August 27 2011, 15:50:02 UTC

I just can't believe she doesn't realise how offensive she's being, or maybe she does realise and she just doesn't care.

anuhealani August 27 2011, 19:36:19 UTC

Late to the party but I would also like to copy this and paste it EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD. I had no idea Linda was this bad until a couple weeks ago when I came across a comment of hers telling someone to-only slightly paraphrasing here-shut the fuck up and shove their political correctness if they don't mind the changes to the show. What a vile woman. And for fuck's sake, the phrase "political correctness" cannot fall out of fashion too soon for me. Such a cop-out.

I had no idea she hasn't even read all the books, either. You're not allowed to sit on your purist high horse if you haven't read the source material, asshole. Unbelievable.

littleshebear August 27 2011, 20:56:37 UTC

the phrase "political correctness" cannot fall out of fashion too soon for me. Such a cop-out.

Urrrgh, this! She cannot argue, she just throws out as many ad hominems and straw men as she can and yes, the "political correctness gone maaaad!" thing is SUCH a strawman. It's not about being politically correct, it's not about policing language it's about treating people with a baseline level of respect.

Her whole attitude seems to be "I'm the BNF, I'm the senior fan, my opinion trumps everyone else's and if you don't agree with me, you can STFU."

Honestly, I think the vast majority of readers would not give a crap about this. The average reader does not obsess over the ethnic make-up of the free cities, or which characters have Valaryian ancestry. Linda is not representative of this fandom and I'm sick of her trying to lord it over everyone else.

snowdrifted August 31 2011, 14:08:24 UTC

I'd like to publicly thank y'all for saving me from online GoT fandom. I like my own personal fandom better so far. Yuck.

littleshebear August 31 2011, 15:14:42 UTC

If you stick to LJ, it's not so bad but stay away from Tumblr, westeros.org and winter-is-coming.net (I just saw the latter mod-slapping people for pointing out racist comments, because that's so insulting and offensive, but giving the people actually being racist a free pass. Urgh.).