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.

And the Fug Girls at the Twilight premiere.

Oh sweet jiminy Christmas.

Don't be drinking anything while you read this.

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Okay, based purely on the things you folks are coming up with, my opinion of Robert Pattison (which had been 'HELLO, Cedric Diggory! Holy crap, I see why everyone in Hogwarts adores you!' and then progressed to 'Twilight, eh? What's that then?' and then to 'OMG, Twilight is ghastlier than a ghastly thing and you are now sullied by association, Mr Pattison') is steadily rising again. Fair play to the lad.

God, he's about to have terrifying levels of fangirlish celebrity, isn't he? Real can't-go-to-Tescos-without-getting-stalked-by-teens-and-sheepish-moms stuff. Hope he can get some career leverage out of it all, because he is pretty and seems quite engaging.

Gates of Hell. Heh.

God, he's about to have terrifying levels of fangirlish celebrity, isn't he? Real can't-go-to-Tescos-without-getting-stalked-by-teens-and-sheepish-moms stuff.

He's been approached, more than once, apparently, by young girls who have scratched their necks so the blood is trickling.

Poor noodle, having to deal with that craziness.

He's probably calling Dan Radcliffe and saying, "I think my crazies have your crazies beat, mate."