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.
Gil's All Fright Diner
Sounds fun. I've added it to my bookmooch list. Thanks for the suggestion!
Zombie cows take up people-tipping?
Zombie cows take up people-tipping?
Well, it starts that way. Duke (the werewolf) thinks they'll eventually move to "attempted people eating" - zombies are, after all, brain-ovores.
It's a very Douglas Adams-meets-Supernatural sort of Americana horror/schlock fest. It's so much fun to read.
Oh, and Pig Latin is the powerful spell-casting language.
Loving the Wuthering Heights discussion as I'm almost done reading the book at this very point in time. Somehow I never read it, though I was an English major (shocking, right?). Anyway, I'm loving it. It's just so fucked up. I'm sad I didn't read it in high school as I think I would really have loved it then. We just saw the '39 version of WH on the big screen, which prompted me to read the book. Minor nit, but I think Nelly found the hanging dog before it was dead. The intent was certainly to kill it, but I think it survived.
oh my ... a friend of mine refuses to have a TV but does have a little DVD player and had been getting DVDs of various classic movies she'd loved and wanted to watch. This project has been complicated by the fact that her husband insists it's not safe to use a credit card on any online sites (which means they can't have Netflix). Well, I gave her a DVD of Wuthering Heights (the 1939 version, which is what she'd wanted) as a present ... only I hadn't read the information closely. Turns out it came with Korean subtitles, which she found kind of disconcerting.
