I'm sorry to spam those of my followers who don't care about Hayffie, but I figured I had to speak my mind about the violence that has reached our peaceful Hayffie tag since yesterday. Honestly, I have to say I'm a little disappointed in our fandom right now. I thought we new better than to react to hate by hate... Now I know that person probably shouldn't have tagged her post Hayffie, but that's not a reason to react like most of us did -I exclude, of course, the calming circle started by Grace, The-Dodo-Bird, Effie's-Scrapbook and such, in which I'm happy to take part. Everyone's entitled to a different opinion, and I believe everyone should be able to express is. The tagging part was wrong, yes. But still, we should respect this opinion just like the others HG readers -mostly- respect ours. I think reacting as violently seemed a lot childish and immature. I'm pretty sure that's not what Effie would have done. (Yeah, that's kind of a lame argument, but still. We all love her, so we should think about our manners a little too.) I ship a lot of unpopular ships, and, trust me, the hate we receive in the Hayffie tag is nothing compared to some others. Try shipping Gelphie, or Doctor/Donna for example. Or just liking Catherine Tate. It's way worse, as far as hate is concerned... Plus I didn't find the original message that hateful anyway. At least there were arguments -most of which I disagree with, but still. If we want to respond adequatly, we should either ignore or calmly argue, not hate on people we don't know, don't you think? Last but not least, I'd just like to say that I somehow also understand why the hater was pissed off with Hayffie. I mean, of course, I'm a mad shipper, but I do know that finding ships you don't ship constantly thrown through charcacter's tags is annoting. My dash is made of 40% Ten/Rose posts while I ship Ten/Donna (Doctor Who), and in all honesty, it pisses me off sometimes, even if I don't make a fuss about it. So all in all, my point is everyone is entilted to an opinion, and even if the fact it was tagged Hayffie wasn't clever, I don't think it reflects good on our ship to react the way some of us did. And it drove scribble-scratch away from the ship, which makes me desperately sad, way more than any hateful post could have done. Dearest, you will be missed. Thanks for reading... And don't hate me for that, okay? I still love you guise and Hayffie. [And for those of you it might interest, I'm working on something right now. :3]