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The Twilight Of My Ass; Anti-Stephenie Meyer
Topic Started: May 9 2008, 04:13 AM (12,749 Views)
Lute
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OFFICIAL FORUM GODDESS
:lmao:

MT has proved that influential =/= good necessarily. At all. D:

Please, OSC. Just because she's Mormon doesn't mean she can write. ;; [And whyyy does everyone say that a Mormon woman = housewife?! Not true. D: I got plans before kids, baby. 8) This novel definitely was NOT inspired. :lmao: ]

Haha, the way he wrote that article made it seem like he hadn't even read the book. A waste of his brain cells, plz. D: He seemed kinda "uhh" about it. Vague-ish.

Uhh, I'd be too, if I was asked to write an article about that crap. He made it a point to say that it was teenage girls + their mothers fangirling over it [and he sounded skeptical about the whole deal, lawl].

I promise never to do something just to please the masses if I get published. .____.
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Kuraudo
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Aww, crap.

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But Stephenie Meyer's Twilight does raise some questions, and I've asked them. "You really want your teenage daughter to live inside the story of a girl who lies to her parents, invites a boy to sleep in her bed and trusts him not to take advantage of her?"

These women look at me as if I'm insane. "But she can trust him. He really loves her. He's...perfect."


... That's great.

Sorry, but I just wanna puke, plz. D:
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Alantie
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

*has snuck in again*

You gaiz amuse me, lolz. The Twilight fandom sucks majorly *eventhoughIdolikethebooks*. Maybe I should just be the resident pet Twilight fan for you all, hmm? :lmao:

I do agree that it's lame when people take this book as a model for real life. Excuse me, but how dumb to you have to be to think that you should follow Bella's example? Does the phase 'work of fiction' or 'fantasy' mean nothing to them? I mean, I love it, but I'm not going to think O MAI PERFECT RELATIONSHUP MODEL YOZ!! MUST DO THINGS EGACTLY TEH SAME AS TEHM!!! :tard:

*coughs* Anyway, poofing back out again!

*poof!* :ninja:
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Kusari Yarou
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Now I feel kinda guilty posting this riiiight after Alantie *g*
But I skimmed through lotsa interviews and copy-pasted quotes already, so here goes- thought these might amuse you guys:

Stephenie Meyer
 
[Carlisle and Esme] both have a soft spot for Edward because he was with them first, and he’s such a deeply good person. The others are good, too, but Edward is special. And I’m not just saying that because I’m in love with him.
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The jolt you get when you brush fingers with the hottest guy you’ve ever seen… sigh…Edward… Ha ha.
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(answering why Edward kisses Bella on the neck a lot)It’s a little be safer (her reactions put her in danger). Also, because he’s just so SEXY!!
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it was the kind of dream that makes you want to call your friend and bore her with a detailed description. (Also, the vampire was just so darned good-looking, that I didn't want to lose the mental image.)
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For my vampire (who I was in love with from day one) I decided to use a name that had once been considered romantic, but had fallen out of popularity for decades
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I understand loving your characters like they’re real people, but this is a bit too much! Sounds like a fangirl with a Stu-fic. :fish:

What made me lulz the most:

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A note on Edward’s victims: we’re not talking about some guy who killed his wife ten years ago and has a guilty conscience. We’re talking about serial killers and serial rapists. He always hunted the hunters.
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He didn’t look for the guilty post-act, he searched for other hunters pre-act. So he did save a lot of lives during his rebellious years.


GASP! He is even a benevolent killer! Even when he KILLS PEOPLE, he’s zomg so GEWD! :veto: Srsly, would it kill(pun intended) to have your hero falter every now and then? Even Louis, ‘most human’ of Anne Rice’s vampires could give in to temptation, no matter who he was killing.
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Jun 22 2008, 10:07 PM

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A note on Edward’s victims: we’re not talking about some guy who killed his wife ten years ago and has a guilty conscience. We’re talking about serial killers and serial rapists. He always hunted the hunters.
[snip]
He didn’t look for the guilty post-act, he searched for other hunters pre-act. So he did save a lot of lives during his rebellious years.

Ok, so that's enough proof now that she ripped off Lestat.


And her gushing over how sexy HER character is is absolutely disgusting. I don't know any professional writer who does something that shallow and stupid. She's admitting that the best thing about him is his appearance when an author is supposed to concentrate on the character's character, especially in a BOOK (and when he's supposed to be in high school). It takes away SUBSTANCE from a character to be that dependent on his appearance. How revolting of her. Extremely unprofessional and I will never take her seriously.
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Kusari Yarou
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(by grrliz on LJ)
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Skelly
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^LOLZ. Should be Hugh Hefner or somethin' though. : D

Awwwww Alantie, hello. XD lolz, the viper pit's pretty comfortable after all isn't it? I feel mean posting uh, mean stuff, when you post. :lol:

@MT:
:lmao: WOW. Er. She should be proud, I suppose. What awesome people. At least she'll be happy to know Twilight is of an epic proportion as well---who knew books could actually brainwash millions of people? : D

Actually, concerning Edward, I suppose SM has no option but to gush over his physical appearance. Other than that, he's got pretty much nothing else. (Oh well, except for his body glitter.)
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Alantie
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*poofs in*

:lmao:

No, it isn't so bad here in the viper pit, lol. You don't attack me. XD Since I hate the fandom, I figure I'd come in every so often to rant about its suckiness, even though I like the books themselves. It's the idiot rabid fans that annoy the snot out of me. So I am your friendly Twilight pet. :lol:

I kinda laugh at SM's gushing over Edward. Though I admit, I am quite in love with some of my own original characters, so I understand to a degree- but she's taken it kind of far.

*poofs out* :ninja:
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Damaged
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I agree with Alantie. I think it's okay to be "in love" with your own character, but she does take it to a bad extent. It's like... someone falling in love with a comic book character. They aren't real, get over it.

Though I do love some video game characters.... :unsure:
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Random fact: The words 'I love you' appear 22 times in Twilight.

:lmao: I actually read out a few sections that you guys have pointed out to my English class, and they all fell over laughing, including my teacher!!

I :heart: this thread.
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Kusari Yarou
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You smell like vampire you smell like vampire you smell like vampire....tonight!
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Damaged
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You think they realize that their music is more Acoustic pop/pop than Rock?

What the heck!? Now that was just lame...

"You smell like... warewolf... tonight."

..... :yawn:

LAME. It had a nice beat, but the lyrics are just annoying.
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GAWD.

If I only do one thing while I'm at this forum today, then it has to be joining this club and fangirling its awesome title.

It's not the vampire fandom I've got a problem with or even YA-fiction vampires (anyone remember L. J. Smith's "Nightworld" series? I read all of those in about a fortnight when I was 11/12, and I loved it to bits), but I just can't see what all the fuss is about with Twilight. It's just not very well written, characterized or plotted, and I don't see how it deserves its reputation as one of the best YA novels out there, next to HP and all that. Even for a YA-series, it seems very shallow. Edward's hotness is not the only thing in the world that matters, girls. And I don't have a problem with unhealthy relationships in fiction either (in fact, I can really enjoy them), but call a thing by its true name. When you have an obviously unhealthy and rather unlikely and unequal relationship in a story but present it as "OMG BOOTIFUL CO-DEPENDENT TWOO WUV"...that really bothers me. I don't think it promotes anything positive. Wish-fulfillment and objectification being presented as love is pretty sickening stuff. I'm all for fantasy, escapism, and I like relationships too intense/complicated for real life when I'm reading fiction, and it is romantic, but it should still have some substance to it other than the melodrama.

Oh, and that band! While it's great that the books have inspired these girls to make music, the obsession-level is a bit off-putting, and their lyrics pretty much illustrate everything I dislike so much about these books. Especially stuff like this:

"Sexy Vampire" lyrics
 
She's our hero
How many times in our lives can we drool over vampires?
She's our hero
'Cause Edward's so hot he can set the house on fire
...Yeah, he's one sexy vampire
Sexy vampire.


:puke:
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Nevi
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Can I join this club if I realize the fail that is my fandom and accept the fail anyway?
I need a safe haven to proclaim that Edward is a Gary Stu and a pedophile. The Edward fangirls will murder me if I say it anywhere else. (I mean, seriously, they get vicious.)
Twilight sucks and I love it... I has conflicted emotions! :tard:
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Aerith Gainsborough
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Please, for the love of God let me join this club.

And for my acceptance, I bring to you fellow haters a gift:

Otahyoni's twilight Parody

This lovely lady came up with a hilarious parody of how poorly written Twilight is.

I do hope she doesn't mind me sharing her genius.
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