She has done her best to turn all her friends against me
Speaking as one of her friends, that's not true. She's detailed some of her experiences with you, and certainly portrayed you in a negative light seeing as that's her opinion of you, but she's hardly going to each of us and saying "This is the worst person ever! Never speak to him or be on friendly terms with him at all, or you're as bad as he is!" or somesuch. For some evidence of this, witness that she's still on the same terms with me as before, even though I'm striking up a tentative friendship with you. If her vendetta was as all-encompassing as you attest, this would not be the case.
it was inspired purely and simply by the need to hate, to find a target for some inner fury that has nothing to do with me, to persecute and misrepresent and tear down
This also is entirely untrue. I have not read your Gay Bar fic, but I know a number of people who have and were deeply, deeply shocked by what they saw as excessively homophobic overtones. That is what inspired all the negativity; they weren't running around looking for something to throw a fit about, fandom_wank style, however it may seem to you. If they misjudged your intentions that's a great shame, but they were as deeply shocked by what they found in that fic as others have been by Molly's fic about you. They had no deep need to hate; indeed, they saw your fic as being evidence of the same sort of behavior you're now attributing to them.
I'm not trying to throw the blame in your lap here, please understand. I just want to state that I suspect there's been a lot of misunderstanding on both sides. Not that that does anything to fix matters in the slightest...
As for Narcissa Malfoy, you may perhaps be intersted to know that she too suffers from a deeply difficult and nearly impossible to cure disease. And Molly's sense of being insulted by this entry has nothing to do with you or her dislike of you, but of your attitude towards the disabled, and the phrase "bird with two broken wings"; she believes, as do so many others with various sorts of handicaps, that her disability has permitted her to become a stronger person. You're portraying her as being helpless, and nobody--disabled or otherwise--is going to take that without feeling insulted. God knows I'd be insulted by that slap in the face, however well-intentioned the reasons behind it. It has nothing to do with your history, believe it or not.
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I'm probably going to regret saying anything about this but I never know when to keep my mouth shut.
Date: 2004-10-05 08:00 am (UTC)Speaking as one of her friends, that's not true. She's detailed some of her experiences with you, and certainly portrayed you in a negative light seeing as that's her opinion of you, but she's hardly going to each of us and saying "This is the worst person ever! Never speak to him or be on friendly terms with him at all, or you're as bad as he is!" or somesuch. For some evidence of this, witness that she's still on the same terms with me as before, even though I'm striking up a tentative friendship with you. If her vendetta was as all-encompassing as you attest, this would not be the case.
it was inspired purely and simply by the need to hate, to find a target for some inner fury that has nothing to do with me, to persecute and misrepresent and tear down
This also is entirely untrue. I have not read your Gay Bar fic, but I know a number of people who have and were deeply, deeply shocked by what they saw as excessively homophobic overtones. That is what inspired all the negativity; they weren't running around looking for something to throw a fit about, fandom_wank style, however it may seem to you. If they misjudged your intentions that's a great shame, but they were as deeply shocked by what they found in that fic as others have been by Molly's fic about you. They had no deep need to hate; indeed, they saw your fic as being evidence of the same sort of behavior you're now attributing to them.
I'm not trying to throw the blame in your lap here, please understand. I just want to state that I suspect there's been a lot of misunderstanding on both sides. Not that that does anything to fix matters in the slightest...
As for Narcissa Malfoy, you may perhaps be intersted to know that she too suffers from a deeply difficult and nearly impossible to cure disease. And Molly's sense of being insulted by this entry has nothing to do with you or her dislike of you, but of your attitude towards the disabled, and the phrase "bird with two broken wings"; she believes, as do so many others with various sorts of handicaps, that her disability has permitted her to become a stronger person. You're portraying her as being helpless, and nobody--disabled or otherwise--is going to take that without feeling insulted. God knows I'd be insulted by that slap in the face, however well-intentioned the reasons behind it. It has nothing to do with your history, believe it or not.