Cupid Bow Mouth

Fandom has given me a headache. However, this time it isn't even my own fandom. It's the ignornance and stupidity of an HP comm. You've all seen the links, I'm sure, but I feel the need to help spread the message.

liviapenn's links to the whole insane debacle and witchqueen's post about how it all got started.

Let me just say that the last time I heard the word miscegenation outside of a political debate over the repeal of antiquted laws currently on the U.S. books was in early American and African American literature classes. I have always been severely irritated by people using words incorrectly because they don't know the correct definition. I assumed that's what this particular HP comm was doing. I still think that's partially true (although when they stated that they were being offensive on purpose I pretty much threw out all get out of jail free cards), but what I find the most offensive part is their unwillingness to admit that they didn't truly grasp the implications of the word being used for a kink prompt. Miscegenation?! Of ALL things?! Their policy of prompt choice is highly problematic because what if the N word comes up? What then? They just slap it up and keep going? Trying to divorce the word miscegenation from a racist discourse is ridiculous, and yes, it is akin to using the N word. Not to mention that they are conflating inter-racial and inter-species under miscegenation as a sort of umbrella term. A completely incorrect definition of the word, not to mention that now you're setting up color as beastial.

I can only hope that the members of the comm all decide to drop it because that kind of insensivity and ignorance is just mindblowingly stupid. I wasn't going to go into a long spiel, but this left a knot in my chest that makes it hard to breathe.

annakovsky, swmbo, moireach, bear: These gals amuse me to no end! Apparently annakovsky won the morning AND she's reading slush. Dude, I remember those days and the ecstasy of mockery it induced.

Now, I need quality HP recs. Since moireach introduced me to Silvia Kundera's Sixteen in Bulgaria I have been pining. PINING!! And the rabidity of the HP fandome scares me to the point that I dare not go out in search of fic on my own. I don't want to lose any body parts. So, rec me silly!!! But let's make it good people! I mean REALLY good. I don't want things in which Ginny Weasly is dating Tonks and calling her Nymph unless it's like AMAZING! You see where I'm going with this?