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Dec. 15th, 2007 02:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
person4I usually consider myself a very even-tempered member of fandom. There are no characters, pairings, fandoms, or fans that I really hate, I only have one major irritation trigger IRL that's not something I'm ever going to have hit online unless I go out of my way to have a conversation that might trigger it, and when I see flame wars I just go "Oh, fandom," and don't add any comments into the fray. Which isn't to say I've never gotten pissed off by something online, of course, but I vent somewhere private and it always passes quickly.
But seeing the way people are reacting to Amazon buying JKR's Beedle the Bard book is making me want to punch somebody in the face until their nose is mush.
You just... you don't throw screaming fits and using vile language against somebody for doing something that makes four million dollars for institutionalized kids, many of whom probably need every bit of help they can get if they want to rise beyond what they came from once they're adults. I don't even like children, and I know that that's not on. You especially don't throw screaming fits about it on the internet, where you have all the time in the world to look back over what you've written and realize, 'Okay, maybe calling her an evil bitch for giving money to children is a little strong'.
Bitching a little about how you wish you were rich enough to buy the book, fine. Complaining that you wish Amazon had stayed out of it say a fansite could win the auction, fine (if rather ignorant; I'm sure that if they hadn't gotten it some millionare somewhere would have easily beaten whatever amount any fansite managed to get together and wouldn't share a word of it, unlike Amazon, just like happened with that HBP outline). But acting like JKR commited some horrible crime against humanity, when she could have just stuck with the six books she made as presents and nobody would have even known they existed (and when I'm sure a mass-produced copy will come out someday soon, all they'll be missing out on is her handwriting and maybe illustrations), is one of the most horrible examples of the fannish sense of entitlement I've ever seen and while it certainly convinces me that somebody is a vile human being, that's not JKR.
I only read one topic on the site after reading the two story reviews they have up, and that was over an hour ago, but I'm still just so angry at the people I saw spewing vitriol at JKR and the auction that it makes me feel physically ill and a bit like I need a good cry.
But seeing the way people are reacting to Amazon buying JKR's Beedle the Bard book is making me want to punch somebody in the face until their nose is mush.
You just... you don't throw screaming fits and using vile language against somebody for doing something that makes four million dollars for institutionalized kids, many of whom probably need every bit of help they can get if they want to rise beyond what they came from once they're adults. I don't even like children, and I know that that's not on. You especially don't throw screaming fits about it on the internet, where you have all the time in the world to look back over what you've written and realize, 'Okay, maybe calling her an evil bitch for giving money to children is a little strong'.
Bitching a little about how you wish you were rich enough to buy the book, fine. Complaining that you wish Amazon had stayed out of it say a fansite could win the auction, fine (if rather ignorant; I'm sure that if they hadn't gotten it some millionare somewhere would have easily beaten whatever amount any fansite managed to get together and wouldn't share a word of it, unlike Amazon, just like happened with that HBP outline). But acting like JKR commited some horrible crime against humanity, when she could have just stuck with the six books she made as presents and nobody would have even known they existed (and when I'm sure a mass-produced copy will come out someday soon, all they'll be missing out on is her handwriting and maybe illustrations), is one of the most horrible examples of the fannish sense of entitlement I've ever seen and while it certainly convinces me that somebody is a vile human being, that's not JKR.
I only read one topic on the site after reading the two story reviews they have up, and that was over an hour ago, but I'm still just so angry at the people I saw spewing vitriol at JKR and the auction that it makes me feel physically ill and a bit like I need a good cry.