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...

I just can't imagine my response to a story, whether it be one I like or loath, being 'I am against this pairing'.

I can understand my response to a set of headers being "I am against" etc, but then I don't read it. I'm always amazed when this is hard for people who are not me.

So-o-o . . . you mention this fic . . . but have we, your adoring Buffistas, seen this fic? Is this a fic we've seen? Are you holding out on us, Miss Fay?

I just can't imagine my response to a story, whether it be one I like or loath, being 'I am against this pairing'.

Because in their land of crazy, if they are against this pairing, then nothing with that pairing should be written. Ever.

Land. Of. Crazy.

I would never drink pumpkin juice, but I don't like pumpkin.

I think you've seen it? I had a thing where I was rattling off dialogue-only fic (SUCH fun) for various cliches, and this one was about the 'got to have sex/semen to make a spell work' cliche. To be fair, I didn't mention the pairing in the headers, but that's because it's pretty much a joke. It's not some grand romance. It's a cheap gag. Not liking the pairing, when said pairing could as easily have been with Filch, Ginny, Luna or Dumbledore...kinda missing the point.

Like a Virgin

Like a Virgin

No, I had not seen that! Fiend for keeping it from me! Snerk!

"Oh, knickers."