You are shitting me.

Honey, you know we've got some good writers around here, but no, we couldn't even begin to make that shit up. She thinks it sucks. So no doubt, Twilight is her way of making it "right."

Honey, you know we've got some good writers around here, but no, we couldn't even begin to make that shit up. She thinks it sucks. So no doubt, Twilight is her way of making it "right."

Much as it's her way of making vampires "right". Ugh. Glad I wasn't even remotely tempted.

Ah, Stephen King. How much I would like to give you a nice cool beer.

He'd probably still appreciate the offer, but I don't think he does that anymore.

Stephenie Meyer. How much damage hath she done to the vampire "genre"? Enough so that Matt Reeves (director of "Cloverfield") feels the need to defend his remake of "Let The Right One In" (wait wait - it needs a remake already? Oh, yeah - "Ringu") by saying "No, I won't Twilight it."

Story on io9.com

I feel a full-fledged pre-work crank coming on. Time to shut down the computer and start walking to work. La la la.

I...I realise it would be quite inappropriate, but the prospect of writing fic in which Stephanie Meyer gets eaten by an actual honest-to-god nonsparkly vampire of any denomination is almost overwhelming.

note to self: must finish that SPN/Twilight crossover, and get Edward's ginger ass lain to rest

Stephenie Meyer. How much damage hath she done to the vampire "genre"?

You know, I'll be the first to say that I'm not a huge fan of the genre, on the whole, but dammit, I have respect for the history and the tropes. And, AND, if'n you're gonna fuck with the tropes and turn them upside down, then dammit, you'd better a) know your source material and the tropes and b) have a DAMNED good reason for turning that trope upside down beyond, "Oooh... I needed him to be immortal and beautiful but I didn't want to mess with the fangs and the drinking blood from people because it's, ew, you know, icky."

Bah.

::joins StuntHusband in the crank corner::

Time for me to get to work on the Manuscript That Will Not Die.

I...I realise it would be quite inappropriate, but the prospect of writing fic in which Stephanie Meyer gets eaten by an actual honest-to-god nonsparkly vampire of any denomination is almost overwhelming.

Too good a fate for her. Hell, zombies eating her is too good a fate for her. Zombies with no teeth, even. Zombie ducks, even.

Something embarrassing and caused by her own stupidity (tries hard but can't think of something appropriate).

I'm reading A. Lee Martinez' "Gil's All Fright Diner", and if you haven't read it, READ IT NOW. (Well, after Jilli's book. Finish that *first*, then GET THIS.)

It has zombie cows. They have a hard time being zombies, as their teeth are wrong. Mostly the head-butt people and then step on them.

I think zombie cows would be a fitting addition to any fic involving the Creator of the Sparkly.

(I can tell Jilli is giving me The Look: I don't care how much you plead, or how much Mickie threatens me - I will not buy, much less wear, the men's Sparkly Skin Lotion stuff from Hot Topic. NO.)

I think zombie cows would be a fitting addition to any fic involving the Creator of the Sparkly.

It'd be even better if she were a vegetarian.