Accentuate the positive

Grr. Apparently there is an anti-Ron Weasley community now on LJ. I'd post more about them but I think they've gotten more than their fair share of publicity already. Here's hoping they just fade away.

Reminds me of the old Xena days when hating Joxer was the thing to do and only a tiny number of us dared to admit we not only liked the character, but loved him. Of course we were immediately pounced on and told we had no taste, or were missing the point, or were just plain stupid. The concept that people could have different opinions about characters and those opinions should be respected was just foreign to most of the fandom. I spent literally months arguing the case that just because the majority felt one way about it, it didn't mean the rest of us were somehow wrong. I also argued, quite strenuously, that the minority also deserved to be treated respectfully and that fandom should be about sharing the love of a genre, not about focusing on the negatives. Eventually, at least on one major Xena mailing list, I and those like me made a difference, but we did it in a positive manner.

Don't like a character? Hey that's totally cool. I personally loathe Umbridge, Rita Skeeter, and Sirius Black, but am I going to start a community devoted to loathing them? Fuck no. I'm sure all of them have their fans and why would I want to upset or offend them? And why in the name of the gods would I want to throw my creativity and energy into bashing a part of a fandom I enjoy anyway? That just makes no sense to me at all.

Why people feel the need to turn fandom either into a competitive sport or a partisan political arena will just never compute for me I'm afraid.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, it's just a bit of a red button issue for me. *sigh* Right, so I had a lovely Indian dinner with elo_sf last evening after a productive but low stress work day. Ah if only they could all be so pleasant. We walked around MV for a bit and chatted before going our seperate ways. He to bake a cheesecake and me to grab some necessities for the apartment. One of the bad things about my new place is that it's so small I don't really have any place to store extra stuff. So I've got to buy in small quantities which means I have to buy more often.

I'm thinking I'll just let my Costco membership lapse, no point in having it as long as I live where I do. On the plus side I'm really close to a Chinese grocery store (which does have a bakery according to an article I read on it, jimweasel) so I won't be forced to give into the evil that is Albertsons/Safeway. Ha! Your membership cards will not ensnare me!

Found out my latest Amazon order shipped last night (supposedly, Amazon says it went out, the USPS says they don't have it yet), which is probably for the best as if it hadn't I was going to tack on the Hellboy dvd. I don't really *need* it, and I should probably rent it first to see if the extra goodies are worth having anyway, so it's probably for the best. Now I'm hoping the order arrives by Saturday so I can move forward with my Alan Rickman-a-thon, if not I shall be very sad. None of the Blockbusters I've checked has "Truly, Madly, Deeply" and I'm so jonesing to watch it again. *sigh*