kismetologist's Journal

Slowly moving
Well, I suppose it's time I broke away from Livejournal. I'm not abandoning that journal, but in the event that LJ really gets bad, I want to have somewhere to go when I inevitably fly the hell away from that creepy lama and his scary iron-fisted rule.

Luckily for me, I've been absent from fandom for years and have very little (if anything) to transfer over to a new journal. Since I just got reacquainted with my love of fic, all I've done over on LJ is post less than half of a novel-length thing I've been writing since January and snippets here or there of old fic and maybe some new fic. I'm really unconcerned about moving those things here. I'll just start fresh and new, repost what I think is worth it and scrap most anything else.

If I've friended you here (And I've only friended two people so far), it's probably because I saw your closed Livejournal and moseyed on over to IJ to friend. Quite possibly, I'm friending you because I want to read your delicious slashy goodness, some of which is no longer acceptable at LJ (damn lama).

Anyway, I guess this post (the first post!) is as good as any to say:

The night before the news story about Dumbledore's gayness came out, I was sitting in my friend's living room eating rice krispie treats with my best friend, who is indeed a gay man. I just recently introduced him to Harry Potter slash, which he has taken to like a fish to very gay water. So. We were discussing slash, and non-con couples, and the things I consider to be canon. Like Dumbledore and Grindelwald. My gay boy, who only reads fic I send to him and reads it because he'll probably show it to his boyfriend later and they'll get all hot and bothered and blah blah, has never been exposed to the kind of speculation slashers can indulge in. And so, when I said "Albus and Gellert forevah!!!" He nearly fell over. "YES!" He screamed "YES! The book just about TELLS US SO!" And I giggled and fed him krispie treats and reveled in the joy of having a fledgling slashfan as a best friend.

And then I came home and read the story and...well it was funny, since I had just been discussing this with my friend. But I didn't *squeeee!!!!!* like I thought I would. I'm glad she said it, I guess. I mean, I thought Dumbledore was gay anyway, as well as Snape, simply because with Dumbledore it was sort of in the subtext (as far as I'm concerned) and in Snape's case well...that's my own kink and gay Snape works for me (Not that I insist he MUST be gay. I'm writing a Ginny/Severus thing, and I am a big fan of that pairing). So to have her say it validates what I felt was subtextual. I don't get any joy out of it, though. It doesn't make me stand up and cheer that there was a gay character in Harry Potter and that's so great and progressive and blah blah. Because it's not. She said it AFTER all the books were written. Why? Because to say a character in a children's book that popular is gay would have been suicide for the author and the book sales. And that is not great of progressive or anything.

Also, I just wish she would stop telling us anything more about these characters. Canon has officially closed for Harry Potter. I was annoyed enough that the epilogue took the mystery out of the future of our most beloved characters. MUST we be told even more? No, I don't think so. I don't want to hear that Neville married Hannah. I don't. I want to imagine Neville in my own way, because is that not the best part of reading a book? The endless possibilities of a world beyond what the author has given us?

*sigh* Harry Potter being over is still something I'm sad about, because I spent almost ten years of my life reading the books and loving them. I gave those books a bit of my heart, and of course that they are finished is sad. But at the same time, I felt that a closed canon would allow fans and their ideas to flourish. The epilogue (which I ignore when thinking about possible post-DH fic) made things hard enough. Let's keep canon closed, so we can use our imaginations.

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