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[melwil]

The whole HP thing is beginning to make me rather angry, and very glad that I've pulled right back from the HP fandom.

Matt asked me last night why BNFs were such a 'big thing'. I explained to him that in HP fandom, at the time, the BNFs could really make a difference - if one of them mentioned your fic, you would get reviews. If your fics met the 'requirements' for their websites, then you were set.

I can't tell you how many times I had fic sent back from a certain website because someone had told me I'd put an apostrophe in the wrong place (although lizbee and I scraped through the fic looking for this 'mistake'). Meanwhile there was a lot of crap all over that particular site.

And don't get me started on the laptop thing.

A certain BNF has apologised, and most of the comments are 'oh you poor thing'. Bull! This person has spent two days saying she has evidence that it's all wrong, but she's too busy to deal with it. She might not have known the extent of what was going on, but she must have known something wasn't right.

I'm not going to rant anymore. But I'm angry that this happened in a fandom that I was involved in. I'm angry that it did make a difference to the little people like me ,who were never welcomed into the fandom because of the cult of celebrity.

Comments

[melwil.livejournal.com]

I'm sure LJ has helped with Spook fandom - when the main list allowed spoilers without any kind of warning sangerin and I would have had no where to go without live journal.

But I was in the other fandoms pre-LJ and although there will always be squabbles and disagreements, the level of elitism didn't seem to exist. The common theory was - if you want to be a noticed person, (or a BNF) then do something worth noticing - begin a helpful web site, run a challenge or a ficathon, offer to beta, comment on fiction. That a person managed to obtain such a high status without really doing anything seems to be a strange HP phenomenon

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

i think you leave out the fandom contribution of amusement. she was, whether a bald-faced liar or not, a very witty read. she wrote some fic, created socks to pimp her fic and her lj and then promptly proceeded to entertain people.

somewhere along the way she figured out the lay of the land and used it to her advantage to get more attention, feed in to the fandom nonsense, and continue to be entertaining....now it was just in the form of wank she started.