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These things really do go in cycles...
c/p'd from Mousie's hard work:

Emma Watson is guest editing a British magazine that comes out on Thursday.

In it, supposedly JK Rowling shares her regret for making a certain pairing canon over another one.

Nowadays she admits she got it wrong - she should have shipped Harry / Hermione.

ONTD jumps on the bandwagon first with predictable splooge. 2600+ comments and gong. Wank_report anonymouse captured their favorites:

Ron's an asshole! No, Hermione's abusive!
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993729787#t14993729787

"harry's long fat DADA dick BELONGED in hermione's BEAUTIFUL GENIUS MUGGLEBORN COOCH AND THE FANFIC PROVES IT"
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993646843#t14993646843

When people don't like ron it's because he's too poor and working class!
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993204731#t14993204731

Someone mentions Hermione/Draco, spawning a thread about whether Draco is an irredeemable racist. Bonus: passive-aggressive use of "gurl". I guess it's the new "sweetie"? http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993142779#t14993142779

In response to the same Dramione thread, Godwin's Law is invoked! http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993602043#t14993602043

I'm...not even sure what's happening in this thread. But I know I can't look away.
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993803259#t14993803259

That's just from the first few pages.

Meanwhile, on Tumblr...

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FU****IN KIDDING ME JK ROWLING YOU REGRET THE THING I BASE MY LIFE ON LIKE JESUS CHRIST YOU MIGHT AS WELL TELL ME THAT I AM ADOPTED
http://ronaldweasley-is-a-father.tumblr.com/post/75318975049/you-have-got-to-be-fu-in-kidding-me-jk-rowling

Dear J. Rowling, If you ever dare to say that Ron wasn’t good enough for anybody I’d be so done.
http://nightinglock.tumblr.com/post/75318100681/dear-j-rowling-if-you-ever-dare-to-say-that

I DON’T WANT TO BASH ANYONE’S SHIP OR ANYTHING, BUT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I’M CAPABLE OF TAKING.
http://dragonprincessofkeys.tumblr.com/post/75317489747/im-sorry-but-im-not-having-none-of-j-k

reasons why im sad and confused by this bombshell
http://coldnessoflove.tumblr.com/post/75315357947/reasons-why-im-sad-and-confused-by-this-bombshell

For fun nostalgia points, Heidi's excited too:
http://heidi8.livejournal.com/1307412.html?style=mine#comments

And for unfunny nostalgia points, so's Andy Blake (who would like to tell you all about his own magnum opus):
http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/75346872233/your-post-about-ron-and-hermiones-relationship-made-me

The actual article is slated to come out on Thursday. Prepare yourselves for the Second Coming...

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	meagenimage 2014-02-02 11:35 am UTC (link)
	I've wandered back out of a long time in the Homestuck fandom and find myself blinking in bewilderment at this strange world where not all ships are canon and there is only one kind of romance. (Ron for Hermione's red quadrant, Harry for her diamond, Draco for kismesis, there I solved it, you're welcome.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kijikun 2014-02-02 02:02 pm UTC (link)
	Perfect solution. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gerorin 2014-02-02 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	Can you explain that for people not familiar with Homestuck, pretty please? Accidentally, what is H/D? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

meagenimage
2014-02-02 04:03 pm UTC (link)

In the context of Harry Potter I would imagine H/D = Harry/Draco?

The alien race in Homestuck (who call themselves "trolls", yes this does lead to confusion) has four kinds of relationships they consider romantic, also known as "romantic quadrants". Very short version: red romance/heart quadrant is equivalent to human romance, pale romance/diamond quadrant is a non-sexual BFFs-keeping-each-other-sane sort of thing, black romance/spades quadrant is attraction based on competition, ashen romance/clover quadrant is one person mediating between two others so they don't end up in murder.

The romantic ideal of the trolls is to have "all your quadrants filled" each with a different person. As you can imagine, this has given the shippers a wealth of new material to apply both to Homestuck characters and other canons.

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	gelasius 2014-02-02 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my god. I need this in my life. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

tez
2014-02-02 07:49 pm UTC (link)

The best quadrant sum-up I've ever heard was:

Hearts: fuck me

Spades: fuck you

Diamonds: calm the fuck down

Clubs: both of you calm the fuck down

The Homestuck fandom is scary as all fuck...but the canon is amazeballs and the creator is very, very well aware that his fans tend to be kind of, um, out there.

He actually at one point declared that for one day all ships were canon. No matter the nature of the ship.

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gerorin
2014-02-02 05:19 pm UTC (link)

Ah, so

HD is in the spades quadrant

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	tez 2014-02-02 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Dude, blackrom for that pair? I'd be ALL OVER THAT. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gerorin 2014-02-02 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	I've just read up on this thing, and now I know what you're talking about (kind of) And yes, blackrom of those two would be awesome. I wonder if a fest is going somewhere, I wanna prompt people... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tez 2014-02-02 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	Hatesex of epic proportions, essentially. It would be amazing. Also probably waaaaaaaay more IC than most H/D. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	itcamefromjapan 2014-02-04 08:31 am UTC (link)
	Me too holy shit. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tez 2014-02-02 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	So who's ashen in all this? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	meagenimage 2014-02-02 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	Skipping the ash quadrant because nobody has any idea how it works. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tez 2014-02-02 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	Valid. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2014-02-03 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Luna. If anyone in HP is an unquantifiable free agent, it's Luna fucking Lovegood. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	trinka 2014-02-02 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh! Ooohhhhh! Why do you think their classes and aspects are?? chinhands Should Hermione be a Time player? Ron should totally be a Knight! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	meagenimage 2014-02-03 07:41 am UTC (link)
	Given that Hermione gave up the only time travel artifact she ever had because it didn't feel right to her? I'm gonna go with "not Time". Mind fits her much better as an element, and for class I'd go with Maid. Ron is totally a Knight, yes. And Harry's an Heir. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kaen 2014-02-02 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	Draco? Hermione's kismesis is totally Rita Skeeter. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2014-02-03 06:55 am UTC (link)
	I like your idea. Everybody is fucking everybody and they're all happy. This is my default shipping angle nowadays. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	itcamefromjapan 2014-02-04 08:27 am UTC (link)
	YES YOU GOT HOMESTUCK IN MY HP I agree with all of your choices but would like to alternately propose Pansy Parkinson as her kismesis. I think there's some good potential there; plus, I just really like femslash. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	meagenimage 2014-02-04 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	Here's an actual crossover of HS with f_w that I found the other day: interrogating the text from the wrong perspective. Rose/Calliope blackrom, set in Complacency of the Learned fandom. Rose is the mod of the kinkmeme, Calliope is a big name artist and runs a fic archive. Sparks fly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	itcamefromjapan 2014-02-05 10:23 am UTC (link)
	I've actually read that one before (though thank you for linking to it; I''d forgotten about it and it's brilliant)! I wanted to share it with someone so badly but I couldn't because none of my Homestuck buddies would have gotten it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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