I just want to give virtual hugs to all my HP-lovin' pals. I'm not in HP fandom, yet I've found myself reading every post about the final book -- partly because I know it means so much, and partly because fandom is fandom, whether I'm intimately familiar with the details or not. I've been all caught up in when the UPS truck's gonna get there and whether people can make it to the last page before they fall asleep -- I might not know exactly what's at stake in HP7, but I sure know what
that kind of stuff is all about.
I should clarify that it's not that I dislike HP. It's just that when I found out about it, I was right in the middle of two enormous fandom events (Matrix and LotR), and when I watched the first HP movie I realized I could easily add another. Well. It would have been easy mentally. It would not have been so easy in terms of my time and money, and so I backed off HP. And I really quite like Daniel Radcliffe. I remember seeing an interview with him early on, and having the sense that he was so
together as a child star that I suspected he'd weather the dangerous waters of public coming-of-age all right. So far, that seems to be correct, thank goodness.
So anyway, thanks for letting me vicariously enjoy this spike in the fandom Force for a while. I realized recently that it probably looks as if I've exited all of fandom, and really, I haven't. I'm still amassing giant folders of .jpgs of hot dudes du jour and writing fanfic every day. It's just that right now I'm mostly writing some pretty obscure pairings (no, seriously,
very very obscure), some of which I don't feel comfortable letting out in public.
