I mean, HP fandom apparently calls Hermione/Harry 'HMS Pumpkin Pie'.

Um, why? I do not get this.

From [link]

The Tale of the HMS Pumpkin Pie
Once upon a time, there was a writer and H/H shipper named Cassandra Claire. She was in the middle of writing the fourth chapter of a story called Draco Veritas. And, being the good, H/H shipper she is, decided to post a snippet of an H/H snog on to this board. Her snog was angsty and steamy and made many of us blush.
It also kicked our muses into high gear. A call was heard all 'round the great ship H/H (as it was then known) for snoglets of any type involving our two heroes.
Many people posted and there was one (by Narri) in which our hero, Harry, coming from a feast, tasted like pumpkin pie. No one is sure why this particular tidbit or turn of phrase caught on, but it did, sweeping through the ship like pink-eye in an elementary school.
Many, *many,* of the snoglets that followed described Harry as tasting like pumpkin pie. There were even whole ficlets built around our two heroes and pumpkin pie.
In short, pumpkin pie became our unofficial mascot, until one day, after many snogs and ficlets, someone said, "Let us forthwith be called the HMS Pumpkin Pie."
And, that, my friends, is the story of the great ship, HMS Pumpkin Pie.
~parker
January, 2002

So it's like Buffy smelling like vanilla, only they named a 'ship after it. (It also occurs to me that if they don't have pumpkin pie in England, the whole concept should be a nonstarter.)

Well, they do drink pumpkin juice in HP.

Oh the one hand, yay for feedback. I mean, that's why I bothered moving them, after all. Feedback is good. But, otoh, I am a terrible, terrible snob.

Heh. I seem to be writing a bit of anime fanfic now, and I'm hesitant to post to any communities or archives for a reason similar to this. Of course, I also have barely posted my lone (so far) HP fanfic anywhere also because of this.

"Snoglets"? That's just ...wrong.

Oh, so it can be blamed on Cassandra Claire. Figures.

Let's just start blaming everything on her pro-actively, save time and effort.

In breaking news: I am Professor Snape. But with more shampoo and stronger expletives. Get those horrible children OFF MY LAWN!

As my friend A said at the end of one of our friend B's rants, "B? You've got kids on your lawn." Which phrasing I immediately stole, of course.

As my friend A said at the end of one of our friend B's rants, "B? You've got kids on your lawn." Which phrasing I immediately stole, of course.

Hee! Oh yeah, I need to steal that phrasing, too.

Fay, I'll stand right with you in the HP-fic-is-awesome-but-I-am-SO-not-in-HP-fandom corner.

In fact, I read HP fic pretty much exclusively. It's my favorite time waster. But still. HP fandom = craxy like a craxalicious crax-whore.

Also, I feel sorry for Harry and Hermione and their no-pumpkin-pie cuz that stuff is tasty.

Pumpkin pie? The mind reels. I've met Brits who found pumpkin pie, in both concept and execution, utterly repellent. So, the idea that you would name a British pairing after it, just boggles.

HP fandom is the crazy.

Oh, so it can be blamed on Cassandra Claire. Figures

Indeed.

Oh, I'm not anti-Pumpkin Pie as a foodstuff. It is dessert. Lilo speaks for me on this subject: "DESSERT!"

...and I suppose that one might make an argument for the existence of Pumpkin Pie within the British Wizarding World on the basis of Pumpkin Juice; my assumption was that Pumpkin Juice was there to sound weird and vaguely Halloweeny. You guys don't actually drink it in the US, do you? Still, the foodstuffs that get mentioned tend to be either made up craxy whacky witchy things or Enid Blyton type stuff, nostalgic British Fayre type stuff. Stodgy things with gravy (none of your white sauce with bits of meat in, proper gravy) or with custard.

Ahem.

To return to the earlier ungrateful rant: there are some lovely pieces of feedback along the lines of 'I liked this' or 'This was good because of blah'. Then there are responses like this:

i am totally aginast neville and draco

...which makes me realise, once more, that I have NOTHING to say to a lot of fen. Outwith the lack of capitalisation and the spelling thing...argh. I just can't imagine my response to a story, whether it be one I like or loath, being 'I am against this pairing'. It's just - damn. I don't understand that planet.

...hang on, I'd rant some more but those bloody kids are back on the lawn. I'm sure I've got some rocks around here somewhere, or maybe an air gun...