Oh well, at least I can't doubt her commitment to Sparkle Motion...
t /random reference
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
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."
Frankenbuddha - Nov 19, 2008 10:48:23 am PST #7976 of 28414
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
erikaj - Nov 19, 2008 10:48:26 am PST #7977 of 28414
Always Anti-fascist!
I really have had ideas happen that way. But I still have had to work like hell on them. That is why she insults writers so. Writing like a fanfiction.net escapee is just the cherry on the sundae.
Atropa - Nov 19, 2008 10:53:06 am PST #7978 of 28414
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying. And being vampier-than-her.
lurks in solidarity with juliana
THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT FUCKING "VAMPIRES" YOU FUCKING HACK?!??!?!??!??
Hey look, Frankenbuddha is channelling me!
Barb - Nov 19, 2008 10:53:33 am PST #7979 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
How, exactly, do they sparkle?
It's a facet (forgive the pun) of the transformation-- their skin has a diamond-like quality and that's one of the primary reasons they can't go out in full sunlight because they're like the human equivalent of bedazzlers.
Or something to that effect.
juliana - Nov 19, 2008 10:57:13 am PST #7980 of 28414
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
lurks in solidarity with juliana
high-fangs Jilli
I mean, seriously. I've nothing against re-interpretations of tropes, but to say you don't like the very thing you're writing about?
Amy - Nov 19, 2008 11:02:49 am PST #7981 of 28414
Because books.
I've nothing against re-interpretations of tropes, but to say you don't like the very thing you're writing about?
That's the part I don't get. If you don't like vampires, why make Edward the Mary Sue of all vampire heroes ever? Why not make them (all of them) the villains? Odd.
And it's one of those things where you discover that sometimes story means more than writing skill. Apparently the girls gobbling up these books don't give a shit that she doesn't, actually, write very well. They want their Edward. And Bella. And whoever the fuck else she came up with in the last couple books.
lisah - Nov 19, 2008 11:04:59 am PST #7982 of 28414
Punishingly Intricate
If you don't like vampires, why make Edward the Mary Sue of all vampire heroes ever?
Well, maybe she wanted to create a vampire that she did like?
Barb - Nov 19, 2008 11:06:58 am PST #7983 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
That's what really got me about that video interview with Robert Pattinson that was linked to in the MSNBC article-- he said something really interesting about how when he was reading the book he got a really strong feeling that it was very personal and maybe not ever meant for publication.
Which I thought was fairly insightful.
DavidS - Nov 19, 2008 11:11:48 am PST #7984 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Why settle for sparkly vampires when you can have dangerous ones?
Atropa - Nov 19, 2008 11:24:13 am PST #7985 of 28414
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Why settle for sparkly vampires when you can have dangerous ones?
Ohhh, Near Dark, I love you so. (At the gothy club this past Sat., the StuntHusband carted me out of the room where my birthday party was because the roadhouse scene of Near Dark had just started on the video monitors, and he knew I'd want to see it.)
he said something really interesting about how when he was reading the book he got a really strong feeling that it was very personal and maybe not ever meant for publication.
Which is probably part of why it became a huge success. SM tapped into the Mary Sue-wish fulfillment fantasies that a lot of teen girls (and older women) have, and they all can imagine that THEY are Bella. Honestly, my fevered teenage scribblings read a lot like Twilight (but with more blood and the vampires were GODDAMN VAMPIRES). But I didn't show those fevered scribblings to anyone.
(No, you can't see them. They have long since been burned.)