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[–]jkfinn 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Who has ever heard of a fan site that breaks off from their celebrated even to the point of de-linking her website, and yet remains fully existent. Not only can they not understand that their heroine has just made the most courageous stand of her life, but in rejecting her and her biography, don’t even have the nerve to disband their little cliquish industry, clinging instead to her literary output as if, having disowned her, they now own her property.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder if it's legal to run ads to support those websites.

[–]NDG 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Longtime involvement in the HP fandom. Melissa Annelli (Leaky Cauldron) and Emerson Spartz (Mugglenet) owe their present careers to JKR. She was gracious enough to let them interview her (in 2006, I think?) and she wrote the forward for MA’s book about the fandom. Emerson Spartz started Mugglenet as a teenager. They’ve also spent years criticizing fans who disagree with JKR in other areas, but now that she pooh-poohed their sacred cow, she’s persona non grata for them.

Also? Back around 2004, Mugglenet pissed off a lot of fans by refusing to allow slash fiction on their site, because “nothing suggests any of the characters are homosexuals.” Of course, the whole point of fan fiction is to start with the canon and then let your imagination run wild, but Teh Gay was forbidden, for some reason. They later reversed course, but ES is hardly some flawless champion of LGBT rights.

The fucking nerve of these assholes.

[–]Coconaut 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think i read that Emerson supported jk and got banned from mugglenet?