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.

About? It's already happening, and there are reports of the moms being just as rabid as their daughters.

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

A seven-year-old asked him to bite her.

All this time I've been confusing "Mary Sue" with "Pollyanna". Boy was that an eye opening journey to wikipedia.

Yeehah! Philip Gosse's "History of Piracy" on Amazon, used from $0.63! New price $40! I'm getting it for less that 5 bucks, and it's one of the prime sources on historical piracy. And there's a chapter on Grandpa Murat Reis, ne Jan Jansen!

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

stares

Wow. That's...wow. D'you think Boreanaz and Marsters got this kind of thing? I'm thinking that they're rather different fanbases, but that might just be about my personal experience of fandom.

Oh, bless him. I feel really well-disposed to him now. I hope he can act, and that he goes on to build a good solid career for himself - carrying Edward Cullen around the whole time is going to be scarier than being Harry Potter, I suspect. I mean, the mainstream Harry Potter fans aren't all about teh sexual fantasies, at least. Whereas that's ALL Twilight is.

Meanwhile, a dear friend whom I'm hoping to see at Christmas (although she can't fly out to Bangkok after all - but I'm hoping she can fly to the UK from Cairo, as that would be awesome) just sent me an email telling me to read Twilight. "TRUST ME" she said.

Oh, again, dear.

But I can see why it would punch her buttons - she's not a Good Mormon Girl, but she is a Good Muslim Girl, my age, and unwed. A lot of the stuff about gender and sexuality and coyly frustrated desire that made me want to cut someone would fit with where she's at.

I'm trying to be happy for her happy, though. And it's nice that she can watch the movie and enjoy it (I presume), because I'd like to watch it and enjoy it - but I fear I may just want to punch things. We'll see.

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?

Hmmm... yes and no.

Edward is less Mary Sue and more the repressed overly anal scrapbooking soccer mom.

I'm enjoying the inappropriate giddy joy of the tweeners. There are so few opportunities to be insanely giddy, and 12-14 is such a perfect age for it, especially if you have a cohort to be insanely giddy with.

From what I'm reading here about Twilight, it sounds like Stephanie Meyer is to vampire literature as Sandra Lee is to cooking?

From what I'm reading here about Twilight, it sounds like Stephanie Meyer is to vampire literature as Sandra Lee is to cooking?

And there's another reason I love Todd! Exactly!

(snuggles Amy)