Willow ,'Lessons'
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."
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Why settle for sparkly vampires when you can have dangerous ones?
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.)
Jilli, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to bury them, with full honors, in a lace and velvet lined mini-coffin?
And there's been a lot of news coverage of Robert Pattison's personal appearances ... one shot was of him at a shopping mall (one of the multi-level ones with an atrium). He walks out on the stage in the atrium, there are screams ... and every single level of the mall is packed with (screaming) teenage girls.
He said during his panel at Comic Con after he was introduced to the same sorts of screams, that it was the sort of sound one expected to hear at the Gates of Hell.
Apparently, several of the fan girlies were devastated that he could be so callous.
I, however, am vastly amused.
That's hilarious.