Ships Coming In/Plugging Again...

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7685

Hello all--

I've been online a lot more than I intended today (having decided to 
forego last-minute holiday shopping by giving the remaining folks on 
my list money instead).  I have some more ship observations (the no-
shippers on list groan loudly):

H/H seems to be taking a beating on the ff.net HP message boards 
(which cater to writers) from all sides.  There's a no-shipper 
contingent who sneers at the most popular writers in the fandom 
being "girls"... he named Cassandra Claire, Penny&Carole, and Lori, 
and says "all their work deals with romance" in this very patronizing 
manner.  I pointed out that the fact that their work is extremely 
well-rounded, and love of all kinds (not just eros) is a part of 
life.  Poor thing...

There's also the R/H folks that can't stand the sight of us.  Now, 
many R/H shippers are reasonable people like Kathy, Naama, Zsenya, 
etc. and don't think that we, our fics, and our views should be 
eradicated from HP-dom.  But some of the others are fanatical and 
post scary reviews on anything that looks like it may be H/H.

I don't know why so many seem so vehemently opposed to our ship.  
Almost every H/H shipper I've spoken to here, elsewhere, and in 
private e-mail admits the possibility of R/H in the canon, can name a 
D/H fic they actually can tolerate reading (if not adore--Cassie 
*almost* had me wanting Draco for Hermione), and can name odd 
pairings and slashfics they appreciate.  

We're a nice, generally tolerant bunch.  Just because we support the 
perfect couple ;) doesn't mean that we are adverse to other points of 
view.  Some of us even write other ships.

Finally (in response to an earlier thread), I wouldn't say that the 
majority of fic writers *are* H/H at this point.  That does an 
extreme disservice to authors like Zsenya, Mrs. Weasley, Anne, Fallen 
Grace, and a thousand others who wouldn't touch H/H with a ten-foot 
pole, the MWPP authors (many of whom are doing their best to turn 
Lily into a Mary Sue), and the dark, angsty writers like Blaise, 
WolfieTwins, Morrighan, Hyphen, etc.

--Shameless plug alert--

BTW, TIP Ch. 2 is up, and HP4GU is in the acknowledgements section 
for the "Truths in the Wizarding World" thread... Storm and Pippin 
got special mentions.  Here's the URL:

http://www.fanfiction.net/master.cfm?action=story-read&storyid=149525

Also, as we've been talking ships and PoU has come up, TSNE Ch. 4 is 
over at PoU.  Just thought I'd mention it.

--Ebony (trying her darndest to win the 2001 Golden Toad Award for 
Shameless Self-Promotion by a New Author)