Twilight surprise: New gender-swapped tale introduces Beau and Edythe

Jesus fucking wept. That's all the world needs - a gender-flipped Twilight. Haven't we been tortured enough?

I weep for humanity. Does the world need a gender-flipped Twilight? Did the world even need the car-wreck that is the Twilight series to begin with ( Read more... )

etacanis and I went to the cinema to see Skyfall last night. The guy at the ticket counter assumed we wanted tickets for Twilight. I was mortally offended. Seriously, do I look like a Twilight fan? I hope to God not!

In his defence, he did say that so far that evening almost every woman/girl who came in had been going to see Twilight and every guy was ( Read more... )

It's this kind of ignorant trash that sets feminism back decades. Women who defend this book are, however unwittingly, participating in some of the most blatant misogyny I've ever witnessed, giving the impression that some women enjoy being debased, abused, and controlled (outside of a consensual dom/sub relationship). This is not a book about BDSM ( Read more... )

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So I'm listening to Heather Nova's 'Not Only Human', which is a song I absolutely love. Only there's a line, 'why does twilight make me cry?' and everytime it throws me out of the song because I sit there thinking 'because Twilight is shit, that's why'.

*sighs*

Please, those of you who have read and/or watched Twilight and enjoyed it, I truly mean no disrespect. That's your thing and that's cool, sparkling vampires aside. But I'm just curious.

Poll twilight

Am I the only one who is completely and utterly bemused by the whole Twilight thing? All I know about it is that the books are apparently terrible; the main character is a Mary-Sue; there's something creepy about a werewolf and a baby; someone is called Renesmee (wtf?); the author won't publish the last book or something; and the fandom rivals ( Read more... )