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[graculus]

You know, there's something both amusing and horrifying about The Guardian sending someone to Las Vegas to cover Lumos and then making a report that is mostly about "hardcore wizard on wizard porn". I have to say I was reading this and thinking 'no, shut up... don't tell her that...'. ;)

E.T.A. that as suspected, the various sources of the 'quotes' in the article have been identified and they're all out of context and/or invented. And there is much (understandable) gnashing of teeth...

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[lexin.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think that conventions should charge journalists double.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Though it's nice to see equal opportunity mockery as the shippers get it in the neck as well... and then you get to the 'and who here writes about bestiality?' section. *headdesk*

[obelix]

Can we just somehow ban journalists from conventions? Pretty please!

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

She got 'Trek' wrong too. Apparently 40 years of cons and zines mean nothing.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Clearly if it doesn't directly involve someone dressing up as a Klingon, it didn't really happen... ;)

[lexin.livejournal.com]

There were no journalists allowed at conventions where we dressed as Klingons. The conrunner in charge hated them like poison.

[manna]

I have to say I was reading this and thinking 'no, shut up... don't tell her that...'. ;)

If people did, in fact, say the things she's quoting them as saying, and she didn't just make it up.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Whether they did or not, there's no excuse for her attitude...

[xochiquetzl]

It's fascinating! Women are never fans!

*facepalm*

[graculus.livejournal.com]

And they're only allowed to be so in fandoms where ironing well is a virtue... ;)

[the_con_cept.livejournal.com]

She came off as a real bitch who revelled in her own ignorance. WTF? How did she not know these things before she went to Lumos? Was she, in fact, locked in a dark dungeon for the past ten years or so? It sure as hell sounds as if she didn't do any substantial, intelligent research beforehand, does it? "Well, I cracked the book on the plane, but really. Reading? Being open minded? I'm a journalist!"

*shudders with revulsion*

[praderwilli.livejournal.com]

That was an illuminating article. I discovered that I do not like Star Trek because I am a girl and not a boy. Gee, I sure wasted a lot of time on a fandom/franchise that I don't like. Wish I would have discovered this "fact" sooner. It would have saved me a lot of time and money.

Oh no she didn't!

[penfold-x.livejournal.com]

This is Harry Potter for adults. A concept that I'd always thought of as one of those minority tastes like quantum physics for children. Or Star Trek for girls. In fact, it's not such a bad comparison, because it transpires that Star Trek is to young men what Harry Potter is to middle-aged women.

Wow. So, clearly doing some research prior to writing this article was never really considered.

'Harry Potter gay porn,' she corrects me. 'We write it. It's called slash fi ction. You take the characters and you imagine them in diff erent scenarios. There's het fiction too, where they think the characters are straight. Whereas we assume that everyone is bisexual until proven otherwise.'

Yeeeeeah, this quote doesn't sound manufactured at all. [/sarcasm]

Every reporter who has ever done a story on fan fiction zooms straight over the (copious) gen for the porn, and the porn becomes the beginning and the end of everything in fandom. *sigh*

[blktauna.livejournal.com]

What did you expect from The Guardian?

[graculus.livejournal.com]

No better than from any paper, I suppose, but it was still a disappointment... ;)