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mrsronweasley) wrote2003-01-24 10:24 am
mrsronweasley) wrote2003-01-24 10:24 am
A Public Service Announcement:
I believe I have alienated a good majority of the SBRL list. Ooops. And all it took was three pages worth of writing.
EDITED TO SAY: The above I actually find intensely amusing. The aggravation comes later. See below.
~*~
So, I could make this friends-only. But I won't. I don't know if it's un-Ghostly of me, but we've all heard this talk before.
Now, I have just posted on the R/S thread. Again. (I won't even count the times, but a few of them have been just strictly mod-ly posts, so it's OK.)
Can I just point something out?
WE ARE NOT USING REMUS AND SIRIUS AS CRUSADERS FOR "THE GAY CAUSE".
That thought never even OCCURED to me. What we're doing is letting two people who deserve happiness have it, in their own special way. What we're saying is that it would simply be nice if they were an example of gay love in literature, because their love, whatever kind it may be, is very rare and beautiful. I am not a story-book romance person. I am one of the most cynical people you'll ever meet in your life. (Which is why my favorite 'romantic' poem is W. H. Auden's "Lullaby".) But this - this gets me. Because their friendship has stood the test of time. Because they ARE willing to die for one another, with no reservations - and because it wasn't quite the case before. Because through hell they have found out what they mean to one another. And because they still have a long way to go before all their issues are totally resolved. (I mean, really. Think about it.)
I do not "use" characters for my own evil purposes of promoting homosexuality in children's books. (Although, admittedly, it would be nice to see that in a book and not have anyone freak out.) I love those characters - which is why R/S took over my life in the first place - and would never presume to "use" them.
But I guess I'm wrong in thinking that. I suppose that really, all I'm doing is making every other HP fan's lives miserable by saying that two men can love each other, because, honestly, they would be so much better off with badly-written Mary-Sueish original characters. (Obviously, there are exceptions. You know what I'm talking about.)
Oh, me and my evil, evil ways...
Off to eat and do stuff. My rant for the day is done. Thank you and Good Morning.
< /bitch-mod(e)>
EDITED TO SAY: The above I actually find intensely amusing. The aggravation comes later. See below.
~*~
So, I could make this friends-only. But I won't. I don't know if it's un-Ghostly of me, but we've all heard this talk before.
Now, I have just posted on the R/S thread. Again. (I won't even count the times, but a few of them have been just strictly mod-ly posts, so it's OK.)
Can I just point something out?
WE ARE NOT USING REMUS AND SIRIUS AS CRUSADERS FOR "THE GAY CAUSE".
That thought never even OCCURED to me. What we're doing is letting two people who deserve happiness have it, in their own special way. What we're saying is that it would simply be nice if they were an example of gay love in literature, because their love, whatever kind it may be, is very rare and beautiful. I am not a story-book romance person. I am one of the most cynical people you'll ever meet in your life. (Which is why my favorite 'romantic' poem is W. H. Auden's "Lullaby".) But this - this gets me. Because their friendship has stood the test of time. Because they ARE willing to die for one another, with no reservations - and because it wasn't quite the case before. Because through hell they have found out what they mean to one another. And because they still have a long way to go before all their issues are totally resolved. (I mean, really. Think about it.)
I do not "use" characters for my own evil purposes of promoting homosexuality in children's books. (Although, admittedly, it would be nice to see that in a book and not have anyone freak out.) I love those characters - which is why R/S took over my life in the first place - and would never presume to "use" them.
But I guess I'm wrong in thinking that. I suppose that really, all I'm doing is making every other HP fan's lives miserable by saying that two men can love each other, because, honestly, they would be so much better off with badly-written Mary-Sueish original characters. (Obviously, there are exceptions. You know what I'm talking about.)
Oh, me and my evil, evil ways...
Off to eat and do stuff. My rant for the day is done. Thank you and Good Morning.
< /bitch-mod(e)>
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Exactly. *sigh* However, there are those that would put all sorts of spikes in our own opinions because, well, they feel like it.
Something did cheer me up - occasional drunkennes does wonders...heh.
And thanks. :)