I can't believe I'm writing this about Twlight

[lesbiassparrow]

Soooo...I didn't like the book and I still can't get over SPARKLY VAMPIRES IN HIGH SCHOOL being the core of the plot, but I have to admit that I will always have admiration for anyone who makes a living writing books.* And then gets a film complete with sparkly vampires made flesh. Sadly, if someone offered me vast sums of money to write dreck about something even more horrifically and inappropriately glittery, I would do so.

As for this as her fantasy, well, I find myself not caring. There are tons of books and characters out there that are clearly people's fantasies made text (James Bond for one, Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey for another), so even if this isn't a fantasy that I share or even think is very good, I don't actually see it as that bizarre or feel like going on about how OMG ROBERT PATTISON SO HAS HER NUMBER.

*There are some exceptions, but beyond things that are written to be vile and hateful they're few and far between.

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[morwen_peredhil]

Thank you for my new LJ name: horrifically and inappropriately glittery. :D

All the horror of Twilight will be worth it if the sparkly meadow scene is sufficiently glorious.

I live to serve

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I gave up at the sparkly meadow scene. But I still rather want to see it made incarnate. Meyer may be the Marie Correlli of our day, but she knows her glitter.

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Couldn't get past chapter three, but... well, I'm still... going to watch the movie. Probably.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

A month ago I would have said NO WAY IN HELL was I seeing it. But it's like a sickness - I may not be able to stop myself. HE SPARKLES.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Obviously watching HL has ruined your brain. It's the "moves like cougars" that did it. Terminal brain damage.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

HL's cracktasticness and brain breaking abilities are as nothing compared to Kdrama. I usually blame it all on 'Stairway to Heaven' a drama which featured: step-sibling love, evil stepmothers and stepsisters, eye cancer caused by car accidents, amnesia, and MORE. It is the acme of my dreadful TV viewing. AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT. Come to think of it, the stepsister in that one had CRAZY EYES too.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I find over-excessive criticism of SM books on LJ a bit on a side of jealousy. I find all the "This is bad because it is just like fanfiction! She is weird because she is Mormon/whatever! She is weird because she admits it is her private fantasy!" statements I see again and again on LJ to be the same as "SHE IS JUST LIKE MEE! Oh no, she is worse than meeeee!! Why is she getting paid so much?".

(This to say, I am not saying the books are good, I am just against making it so personal and so .. spiteful? :D)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

This to say, I am not saying the books are good, I am just against making it so personal and so .. spiteful?

I'd agree; yes, I don't think the books are good and yes, I don't really understand why they are so popular, but all the 'Ha ha!" and pointing every time that someone says anything negative about Meyer as if they had clearly pinpointed some hideous thing about her and the world had finally seen her as an untalented, repellent hag who was ruining fiction FOREVER, just baffles me a bit. It's not as if there's not plenty of terrible books out there, some of which have been EXTREMELY popular but you don't see people ripping into their authors on a personal level.

I assume it's as you say - there's a lot of it 'it should could have been me because my fantasy is so much better!' It's possible it is (though having seen some people's fantasies exposed on LJ, I'd have to say a hell of a lot of them are much more disturbing and odd than Meyer's) but it's not really a valid reason for ripping into her about her perceived personal failings.

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

Word. So much word.

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

At last, a sane voice.

Initially I found the twilols amusing but after a while, the negativity and the sheer spite really began to bug me. It's ugly beyond words.

And for the record, I think RP (the actor who plays Edward) is completely unprofessional and if I were a filmmaker, I'd blacklist him simply on the principle that I won't want to hire an actor who seems to resent the fact that he's being paid a small fortune for a role that has probably made his career.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Initially I found the twilols amusing but after a while, the negativity and the sheer spite really began to bug me.

It's also for the most part really, really boring. There are some notable exceptions but at this point a lot of it is just "I am an ironic* consumer of this set of books which makes me better than those who aren't and I shall repeat 'LOL Sparkles!' for the 5 millionth time." I SUSPECT MEYER DOESN'T CARE IF YOU BOUGHT THEM TO MOCK. SHE STILL GETS PAID EITHER WAY.

I have to admit that I find RP's comments funny, but, you know, compared to some of the rubbish that other actors have appeared in for a relative unknown he's lucky to have hit this one. It's not like it's slavery: he's being paid quite well to dazzle as Edward Cullen, as little fun as it might be.

* By people who rarely know what ironic actually means.

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

* By people who rarely know what ironic actually means.

FTW!


I SUSPECT MEYER DOESN'T CARE IF YOU BOUGHT THEM TO MOCK. SHE STILL GETS PAID EITHER WAY.

Plus either way, she's getting a lot of free publicity from the twilols. I can't count how many people I've come across on LJ who were told to read the book just for the lawls. :P


but, you know, compared to some of the rubbish that other actors have appeared in for a relative unknown he's lucky to have hit this one. It's not like it's slavery: he's being paid quite well to dazzle as Edward Cullen, as little fun as it might be.

Word. I't's hypocritical and completely unprofessional.