It might have been said before and it's probably really cheesy...

But we'll get over this. Because there's no point in bowling about how DH is going to end fandom. I see more and more entries dealing with just that and it just makes me reticent to join the either big glup of sadness or in the frenzied fic reading/writing that's going on in several places.

I joined fandom as a Harry Potter fan. It has been, and still is, my first love. At the end of the day, my OTP is from that fandom. And then I got to know the Lord of the Rings fandom, and it was a joy to have two homes online. When I say "homes", I mean a place I could go at the end of the day, no matter how bad or good it was and just forget myself into hot Legolas/Aragorn action. And my biggest amusment was when my two fandoms collided. And then LotR ended and the fandom wound down to a massive collection of brilliant icons, fics and mostly memories of absolutely insanely amusing time online. And I moved on, but not without the initial heartbreak that this is it.

And the Harry Potter fandom will end too, at some point. I mean, sure, some people will keep writing fics, or making beautiful artwork, or just reminiscing about stuff done during sugar highs at 4 in the morning. But at the end of the day, what makes a fandom alive is all the mass of people in it who think about it and write about it and breathe it, sort to speak, through their computer screens. It's this collective energy that makes a fandom from nothing into something. And it's powerful. So powerful, in fact, that it has literally influenced almost every major movie in Hollywood in the past few years, and in the years to come as well. And when JK Rowling publishes "Deathly Hallows" and it turns into a movie, we'll all end up going in our seperate ways eventually.

But don't make it into this horrid online big bang. Balance things. Some people will probably never get involved in other fandoms again, it's true, but the biggest chunk will just move on to new fandoms. Bread and entertainment, after all, is what motivates the public, even if the public is mostly concerned with hot boy-on-boy action, or maybe especially. ;)

And believe me, I'll be sad. And I'll be sorry to lose opportunities to use some of my favourite icons ever (see the one I'm using in here), and generally drool and make incoherent sounds because someone just wrote the most perfectly obscene blowjob scene involving Harry, Draco and some Ben & Jerry's cookie dough. But I'll remember that, my god, I can't even start counting the amount of things I've learned through this place, in so many fields and areas. 

And then I'll go and search for a new hot slash in my new fandom. And so will the rest of you, because I believe this hunger for hot slash is a lasting thing.

It might have been said before and it's probably really cheesy...

But we'll get over this. Because there's no point in bowling about how DH is going to end fandom. I see more and more entries dealing with just that and it just makes me reticent to join the either big glup of sadness or in the frenzied fic reading/writing that's going on in several places.

I joined fandom as a Harry Potter fan. It has been, and still is, my first love. At the end of the day, my OTP is from that fandom. And then I got to know the Lord of the Rings fandom, and it was a joy to have two homes online. When I say "homes", I mean a place I could go at the end of the day, no matter how bad or good it was and just forget myself into hot Legolas/Aragorn action. And my biggest amusment was when my two fandoms collided. And then LotR ended and the fandom wound down to a massive collection of brilliant icons, fics and mostly memories of absolutely insanely amusing time online. And I moved on, but not without the initial heartbreak that this is it.

And the Harry Potter fandom will end too, at some point. I mean, sure, some people will keep writing fics, or making beautiful artwork, or just reminiscing about stuff done during sugar highs at 4 in the morning. But at the end of the day, what makes a fandom alive is all the mass of people in it who think about it and write about it and breathe it, sort to speak, through their computer screens. It's this collective energy that makes a fandom from nothing into something. And it's powerful. So powerful, in fact, that it has literally influenced almost every major movie in Hollywood in the past few years, and in the years to come as well. And when JK Rowling publishes "Deathly Hallows" and it turns into a movie, we'll all end up going in our seperate ways eventually.

But don't make it into this horrid online big bang. Balance things. Some people will probably never get involved in other fandoms again, it's true, but the biggest chunk will just move on to new fandoms. Bread and entertainment, after all, is what motivates the public, even if the public is mostly concerned with hot boy-on-boy action, or maybe especially. ;)

And believe me, I'll be sad. And I'll be sorry to lose opportunities to use some of my favourite icons ever (see the one I'm using in here), and generally drool and make incoherent sounds because someone just wrote the most perfectly obscene blowjob scene involving Harry, Draco and some Ben & Jerry's cookie dough. But I'll remember that, my god, I can't even start counting the amount of things I've learned through this place, in so many fields and areas. 

And then I'll go and search for a new hot slash in my new fandom. And so will the rest of you, because I believe this hunger for hot slash is a lasting thing.