My two spoiler-whore-without-any-spoilers-in-this-comment cents:
It's not that we gave up hope, so much as we just enjoy reacting with full intensity to the spoilers as we get them. Yes, we KNOW they will fall into context, and we KNOW not everything is as it first seems, but for some of us who love the spoilers, the experience of discussing them, debating them, freaking out over them, wanking over them, hating CL, loving CL - the emotional rollercoaster of the spoilers, as they begin to spell out the stories of the characters you love...that's so much fun, and it's a part of the journey for me. So yes, I might say DIE COWLIP one week, knowing that the next week there might not be enough :X:Xs in the world on YIM for the way I'm feeling. It's fun. It's fandom . And ten years from now, we will ALL be laughing at how we took fandom happenings. But for now, it's part of the deal, you know? I tend not to mind how other people take spoilers (or don't, if they're virgins). Some people are going to love each piece of news, some aren't. I say it's all fun.
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It's not that we gave up hope, so much as we just enjoy reacting with full intensity to the spoilers as we get them. Yes, we KNOW they will fall into context, and we KNOW not everything is as it first seems, but for some of us who love the spoilers, the experience of discussing them, debating them, freaking out over them, wanking over them, hating CL, loving CL - the emotional rollercoaster of the spoilers, as they begin to spell out the stories of the characters you love...that's so much fun, and it's a part of the journey for me. So yes, I might say DIE COWLIP one week, knowing that the next week there might not be enough :X:Xs in the world on YIM for the way I'm feeling. It's fun. It's fandom . And ten years from now, we will ALL be laughing at how we took fandom happenings. But for now, it's part of the deal, you know? I tend not to mind how other people take spoilers (or don't, if they're virgins). Some people are going to love each piece of news, some aren't. I say it's all fun.