Thanks for being cool about all this. I doubt I could remain so calm in the middle of such a fandom windstorm. I've seen a lot of major kerfuffles but this whatever-it-has-been is different from them all. What I have appreciated out of this is actually seeing the real side of the life of that little guy I like and seeing he's just so normal and has regular friends etc. It's always good, I've found after many long years of fan-girling over various people, that seeing them as they really are tends to bring us firmly down to earth and out of the fluffy pink clouds of our imagination. Duh! They are real people! It's good for us to be reminded of this. I hope it is equally good for the objects of our fascination because it de-fictionalizes them and makes us respect them for who they are and not what we wish they were.
I was one of the people who emailed you back at the beginning of the Seekrit pics thing trying to warn you of the fan invasion that was likely to occur. I don't think many of us are dangerous, as I said, but many do tend to invade areas where we can gain info about you-know-who. Look, tell him it's his fault for being such a damn nice and appealing little dork. ;) Maybe if he'd start kicking paparazzi or something we'd back off a little.
But I think and hope you will be OK with most fans. We were largely bookish Tolkienites before we got into the whole movie fandom thing and not terribly violent people, mostly old and new hippie-ish types. There might be one or two or three fans I wouldn't want to get real close to but they problablyare mostly harmless. Here's hoping.
I think I will friend you because you have been so nice about everything and you seem to be a very literate bookish intelligent person. I'm a writer of sorts and not just fanfic..NOT RPS!... just LOTR hobbity stuff of the cute and cuddley sort. Apart from that I've been working on various versions of my 'great novel' for years and years.
So I hope that as long as this whole thing can stay confined to a few Live Journals everything will simmer down. Someone said that it got mentioned at Datalounge, though. o_0 That does not bode too well unless the webmaster there hopefully quashes the thread soon. They usually do knock these things down pretty quickly. So I'm hoping for the best.
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I was one of the people who emailed you back at the beginning of the Seekrit pics thing trying to warn you of the fan invasion that was likely to occur. I don't think many of us are dangerous, as I said, but many do tend to invade areas where we can gain info about you-know-who. Look, tell him it's his fault for being such a damn nice and appealing little dork. ;) Maybe if he'd start kicking paparazzi or something we'd back off a little.
But I think and hope you will be OK with most fans. We were largely bookish Tolkienites before we got into the whole movie fandom thing and not terribly violent people, mostly old and new hippie-ish types. There might be one or two or three fans I wouldn't want to get real close to but they problablyare mostly harmless. Here's hoping.
I think I will friend you because you have been so nice about everything and you seem to be a very literate bookish intelligent person. I'm a writer of sorts and not just fanfic..NOT RPS!... just LOTR hobbity stuff of the cute and cuddley sort. Apart from that I've been working on various versions of my 'great novel' for years and years.
So I hope that as long as this whole thing can stay confined to a few Live Journals everything will simmer down. Someone said that it got mentioned at Datalounge, though. o_0 That does not bode too well unless the webmaster there hopefully quashes the thread soon. They usually do knock these things down pretty quickly. So I'm hoping for the best.