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[40cakes]

The Poll function wouldn't let me write as much as I wanted, so I pose this question to y'all in basic form:

What's worse?

1. This listing of pretty much every pairing imaginable in the HP universe, involving characters who have/will never meet, characters who have never appeared and were mentioned by name only, beastiality, incest, and silly pairing names.

2. This account posted by a non-child (agewise, anyway), ranting and raving that she had to wait a few more minutes for her non-special HBP book because she lost the costume contest to a child. Also, the fact that almost everyone who comments gives a resounding "Hear, hear!" and not a resounding "What fuck wrong you?"

And I started writing this just as prettykate came in and said, "Man, am I sick of hearing about Harry Potter on my friendslist."

Comments

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I'm still astonished by all the love her post is getting on cf_hardcore. I know they're supposed to be the 'hardcore' people but it's just a book.

It landed on fandom_wank and the person who posted it is shocked, shocked that the comments didn't go the way s/he thought they would.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

It's shit like this that makes me ashamed to belong to childfree. I can understand - maybe - being bothered by putting a lot of effort into a costume and not getting recognized, but the sheer whininess of the OP is unreal. Of course the child's going to win the contest! Little kids dressed up are cute; adult attention whores dressed up are pathetic.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

And I love that she knew she had the best costume there and totally would have won if it hadn't gone to a kid. Yeah, I bet your glaring at all the kids and acting ilke you were the best thing since sliced bread helped your chances a lot too.

It's hard to be a parent and read this stuff sometimes. I have a lot of sane, thoughtful childfree friends like yourself so I know it's just one fuckwit, but it still makes me want to stab somebody.

In the eye.

With their own wand. XD

[jaina.livejournal.com]

The bias against children really shows--even if it is 100% certain that the OP deserved to win the contest (and we have only her word for it) how is it the child's fault that the bookseller gave her the prize? Or the mother's?!