Yeah, I can tell it's May ...

[veronica_rich]

This makes the second troll my Will community has attracted from sparrabeth in the past month. (You've gotta scroll to the bottom of those pages for it.) Why do I think that? Oh, I don't know - just a hunch.

This wasn't a criticism of my writing style (which would be fair). It was simply an excuse to anonymously bitch in a minority forum and denounce anything that takes fan focus off Jack and/or Elizabeth.

And no, neither of these comments are particularly horrifying, but as it gets closer to May 23 and some J/E fans get meaner about not getting their way ... well, I haven't lived this long not to spot a problem a mile away. I don't want to have to resort to disabling anonymous commenting in a fan forum. Are there any community mods on my f-list who have dealt with this, with advice? I already made a short post asking "visitors" to the comm to be respectful of the members there, but I wonder if it'll work.

Geez o pete. I didn't realizing having a Will community would be like disagreeing with the Mafia! LOL


Seriously, I keep reading how J/E fans are so much older and more mature than us "13-year-old hormonal" Will/Orlando fans. Me no think so.

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[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

Hormonal? Yes. 13 years old? Not since before the original "Star Wars" came out (long before it was relabeled "A New Hope" or Greedo shot first.;)

Personally, I don't understand Will hate at all, unless you take it as an unconscious acknowledgement that Will and Elizabeth are in some fashion rivals for Jack's affections. As for getting meaner when one doesn't get one's way, well, it's a good thing most of us slashers aren't like that. I guess this means we'll have to go easy on the gloating when J/E dies its expected death. This is Disney after all.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I guess this means we'll have to go easy on the gloating when J/E dies its expected death.

If a J/E fan wants to take canon-destruction as the end of their fandom, they weren't much of a fan in the first place. There are plenty who wrote it before DMC and there are plenty who'll keep doing it after AWE. Unless, of course, Disney is fool enough to *make* it canon, in which case you can forget about POTC gen fandom - it'll become The Jack and Izzy Show. (On the bright side, any slash produced will be back in its orginal element: Subversive and wicked, and infinitely interesting, rather than sort of commonplace as it was before DMC. *G*)