[HPFGU-OTChatter] Ye Gods...

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

Thanks to Dinah and Parker for chiming in!  ;-)

Amber wrote:

>Hm, interesting. I haven't seen many people proclaim their R/H (or
>other) preference. I've seen H/H more. <ducks head> Of course, I have
>one of the worst memories in the world and can't remember what I wore
>yesterday...so I doubt I'd remember ship populations correctly.
>

Actually, you see H/H more in the debates because we *do* have a persecution 
complex... even the no-shippers like to tease us for some reason (i.e., 
Neil's funny post--I giggled!)... and the vocal H/Hers tend to be highly 
visible and well-known regular posters at HP4GU.  Penny's the HP4GU list 
owner.  Heidi is a list elf and moderates some of the sister lists.  Cassie 
is the author of the most-read (and IMO one of the absolute best) 
fanfictions in HP fandom.  Carole's a PoU list mom.  And so on.

Another reason why you might think that the list is overwhelmingly H/H is 
because there is a full website run by two of our HP4GU list members (Zsenya 
and Arabella) featuring the Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny ships:

http://www.sugarquill.com

HP4GU members who tend R/H have a place to talk ship and vent over there... 
there is no H/H equivalent site (some said in past debates that PoU is H/H 
central, but non-list fic related shipping is OT over there)... so when the 
tides are right at HP4GU, we tend to sail eagerly out.

I'm re-reading canon straight through this week, taking notes.  (I read a HP 
book every 1-2 weeks, but it is rare that I go in sequence, annotate, or do 
a close reading.)  Every time I re-read it, interesting things happen--the 
last time, I started writing fanfiction, the time before that I composed my 
infamous Freud/Lacan post (snippet from an essay for a theory seminar), and 
the time before that I cemented my ship pref.  So hopefully I'll think up 
something to start us off.

I'm ready for a ship debate... but we need something new... I'm tired of 
rehashing the same stuff over and over again.  (Although my lovely shipmates 
are so very obviously *right*.  <vbg>)

--Ebony

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