I did laundry and grocery shopping today. That's productive, right?

[drakyndra]

Wow, I haven't updated for an entire week. Shows how exciting my life has been lately. Anyone care to link me to anything interesting going on online/in the news/whatever?

Anyway, last night I went to altheas and lena_supercat's place for a House Cooling party. (Like a housewarming, but in reverse!) Which meant meeting up for a whole lot of people I haven't seen in quite a while. And I seem to have stuff on for the next few Saturdays, so at least I'll have things on on weekends. Plus there's a few things I need to get sorted during the week. I may be going to a Halloween party next weekend...

And for some entertainment value: LOL, Snapewank time again. The Snapefen - no, sorry, Severusmoms - are at it again. This time: claiming he's still alive, really!

And a Kirk/Spock fanvid of great lulz.

Comments

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I think I am with you on my opinions of the books: They aren't perfect but there's nothing I find hugely wrong with them. And JKR seems to have a sense of humour about herself which some of these fans are lacking.

Exactly. And that's what bugs me the most when people call her a vile b*tch and stuff - she isn't any more perfect than her books, but she's a strong woman who has done a lot of stuff her critics never have. They can write an entire book while living in poverty raising an infant, go on to become rich but still remain giving, always advocating for causes and talking not about her success as a writer at a graduation, but her time working for Amnesty International, and then we'll talk about what a lazy, stupid, vile b*tch she is.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Their criticisms always come off as so terribly petty. Especially when most of them just seem to motivated by not getting what they wanted in canon rather than anything else.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And I also feel like a lot of people projected other... let's say "tropes" on her. They wanted Snape and/or Draco to be more of a Spike (pre-season seven)/Jayne type, who everyone knew was neither here nor there from the very beginning, not someone whose intentions everyone merely doubted. And I think many people even hoped to see the Dark Side's "good points," because sometimes storylines do go there. Even if you take pre-series Torchwood, they were essentially an organization with good intentions that went about fighting evil in rather evil ways themselves. That is not what JK Rowling wanted for her Death Eaters. And even those shows had red lines between morally ambiguous and all-out evil, though admittedly some characters crossed the line and had to bounce back - or not.

Wow, this thread got long. :P

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Hey, early on Spike was bad. He was just the lesser evil to Angelus and co. But yes, the Death Eaters were too blatantly a racist organisation in a children's book to ever get their "good points", and Snape and the Malfoys did get a somewhat sympathetic portrayal. But they weren't ~*~cool~*~ about it: Lot closer to pathetic, really.