No, someone named Naughtibitz, if I remember correctly. Not from here.
She used to post at the old WX site, back in the day.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
P.M. Marc - Dec 10, 2009 9:49:02 am PST #10585 of 28370
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 10:00:57 am PST #10586 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Questions we're probably not supposed to ask about Twilight -- if Jasper can't control himself if Bella gets a papercut while he's standing a few feet away, how on earth does he go through a world full of adult women and a high school full of teenage girls?
SMeyer has stated that it's not issue because that is "dead" blood. So, not attractive to the "vampires" in her mythos. (My issues with these books, you know them.)
Or, y'know, all the people who get papercuts all the time, or cut themselves shaving, or any of the zillion other reasons someone might be bleeding a little.
Because all of those people don't have the OMG magically-delicious freesia-scented blood that Bella has! Or ... something. I don't know, and thinking about it too much fills me with weary rage and sends me to re-reading Anno Dracula and Those Who Hunt The Night over and over.
Strix - Dec 10, 2009 10:06:14 am PST #10587 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It's dead blood? Oh, yeah, I forgot -- it has the power to turn ham rancid, and apparently makes your spear go limp.
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 10:08:24 am PST #10588 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's dead blood? Oh, yeah, I forgot -- it has the power to turn ham rancid, and apparently makes your spear go limp.
There's actually a quote from SMeyer about it over on the big Twilight fan site, but I'm not going over there to find it.
Strix - Dec 10, 2009 10:16:23 am PST #10589 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, damn, no, Jilli. STAY FAR AWAY.
That place has got to be crazier that the Laurell K. web page, and that's not a thing to say lightly.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2009 10:16:59 am PST #10590 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, I was going to plead with her to take one for the team.
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 10:19:11 am PST #10591 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, I was going to plead with her to take one for the team.
And you're not even around to experience the frothing and hand-waving in person!
Strix - Dec 10, 2009 10:19:19 am PST #10592 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
yer just mean, ita!
Strix - Dec 10, 2009 10:25:22 am PST #10593 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
And wiki let me grab it without going into Teh Craxy:
"Several girls wanted to know if Edward would have a more difficult time being around Bella when she’s having her period. Answer: Yes, a little bit, but he would never say anything about it–much too much of a gentleman. And Bella would be way to embarrassed to ask. (It’s not the same as a cut, though. It’s sort of "dead" blood, if you get my meaning)."
"Q. That time of the month?
A. Yeah, this one's on the lexicon, too. Good call by "...my name..." on the fact that menstrual blood isn't really like normal blood--it's lining and such. Okay, I'm official grossed out now, moving on..."
How can you be a vampire-writin' author and be "grossed out" by blood?! Any blood?
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 10:27:59 am PST #10594 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
How can you be a vampire-writin' author and be "grossed out" by blood?! Any blood?
Because she doesn't like vampires, has never read any vampire books, or seen any vampire movies. And has repeatedly said so in interviews. Thus I cling to my desperate notion that the "vampires" in Twilight are actually really, really confused elves or fairies. Hence the sparkle-tastic-ness. BECAUSE THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT VAMPIRES, DAMMIT.
(Whoops, my issues are showing again. And I'm not even wearing the "cranky" bloomers today.)