Argument about Ron finished ? Good. About Irie Saaya: Hmmmm... About the thread: I am researching some of my early readings. The ones I liked. It's sometimes painful, browsing the depths of fanfiction.net.
Ah, Sainthood. I can deal with Snape getting the crusader treatment because he really was an unsung hero, and he spent and risked his life daily for the memory of a girl he loved. That's devotion. He was definitely a Knight in Sour Armor, and not only was he a good guy, but he intentionally made everyone hate him for whatever reason and think he was a bad guy consistently throughout the books. So when he was finally revealed for what he was, many fans were touched. Hell, I cried so much during that pensieve chapter. x3 Snape wasn't a saint - he was still bitter and vindicative, and he only became good after he sold out the prophecy (and further when Lily died and grief/guilt came into play), but he was one of the bravest men in the series. Hermione doesn't need to be sainted. She was a very realistic-leaning-towards-unnaturally-good character as she is (brave and intelligent, but still lacking total social graces and having the temperament of a teenage girl) and trying to make her 'better' really just looks like Sueizing or wishful self-projection. Draco is a pansy who happens to fall within many young girls' definition of 'hawt'. There's nothing more to this. They think they're being clever with writing him as 'the seductive bad boy who really means well' or the 'angsty person who doesn't want to be in Slytherin and disapproves of his family', but it's all just blatant disregard for canon and total regard for hormones. Pansy was a minor character at best, and when she did show up, she was consistently an ass. Like in book 7 - 'hey, it's Harry, let's hand him over to save ourselves'! Don't understand why people even bother to saint her. At this point, it's not even Pansy anymore, it's just using a canon name to hide an OC.
Woulda been finished a looooong time ago if people A.) read posts they were replying to and B.) thought about what they were writing in reply. I spend far too much time on this site going "You, uh, wanna try reading that post again?" for my liking.
So there are Twilight fans? :c They're everywheeeerrre D: And what's wrong with the USA? Wait, no, dumb question. But I like to think I'm personally pretty open-minded.
Word among words, the Way of the Mary Sue. Hmmm. The way I see him, he endured his Heel Face Turn because Lily's death was his fault. He is an Atoner, but surely not a Knight in Sour Armor, being absolutely disfunctionnal and without real goals in life. Snape was not genuinely a bad person, but I have to remember you that he was really close to Voldemort's ideas. Snape was not a Hero. Well, Hermione had a great luck: she met her friends-for-life in the train to her new school. I don't want to imagine what would have been her life if she was alone during these seven years. EDIT: *shrug* That's humanity for you. MY NON-SENSICAL ARGUMENT IS LOUDER!
I'm not denying Snape used to be a bad guy, but he genuinely and wholeheartedly devoted his life to the 'good' side after the repercussions of his actions hit him. More of an antihero, then... Having said that, the fics that have Snape as a warmhearted, caring individual, which is probably what sainthood referred to, are OOC, because good =/= nice. Snape is cold. Can't blame him after what he'd been through all his life, but that's a characteristic central to him. Removing it makes him not Snape. That's true. Hermione probably would have become either antisocial or a wreck without Harry and Ron. I mean, when they first became 'friends', they'd saved her because the troll had gone into the bathroom she had been sobbing in. She had no self-confidence and seemed more inherently interested in academics than people before she was brought out of her shell. And then her association with Harry Potter allowed people to see that she was pretty cool in her own way, which helped her fall in better standing with people - and her friends went berserk on anyone who insulted her, which also helped.
Twilight is an incredibly interesting book for a lot of reasons. None of them are the reasons Meyer intended when she wrote it.
Bryan is another Twilight fan. We put "The Host" as something not to touch with a Barge Pole and he started to defend it and Twilight... and going completely "Team Jacob" on everyone.:wtf: And telling us all he's crossing Twilight over with Dust of the Stars...
Here's the links, in the first the post is near the bottom. http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=6208129 http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=120742&page=38 So yeah... Edit: Here's the others. http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=120742&page=40 http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=120742&page=41 Yup. Last one is him arguing about how Twilight can be crossed over with Stargate easilly...
You didn't get my counter-joke, did you ? Or I am too tired to get your counter-counter. It reminds me... My little sister write fanfics. And she is a Twillight fangirl. Oh boy. I have to save her soul!
Probably didn't. Heading to bed soon since I've been up since 5 am and it's now 11 something... and I got to get up at 5 am again first thing...
Is still Sunday for another 73 minutes in my timezone. Also, Bryan is on my ignore list. I saw the Abyss, and put some guardrails around it so I didn't get hurt.
Ah shit I do believe we've said his name three times now, now he'll likely show up and talk about Twilight.
