There are no words for my rage
My tumblr dashboard exploded with stuff regarding Stephenie Meyer and the fact that her non-Twilight book is getting a fucking movie.
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE.
I fucking hate Stephenie Meyer. I have never hated anyone I've never personally met, but she was the straw that broke this camel's back. And the worst part is no one will allow me to call her out. Bloody hell. It's like just because I'm not a middle-aged Mormon housewife who got a wildly popular fiction series published, I can't criticize her. Good god, I've never been so frustrated. Makes me glad that das_sporking exists. Thank the Allmighty Whatsit that Mervin and Mrs. Hyde and gehayi and all of those lovely people are out there and share my hatred of Stephenie Meyer and her works.
Why do I hate her works? It's fairly simple, really. First, she shoves her religion down our throats with pretty much every book she writes. I can't tell if it's intentional or not. Either way, I can't stand that. I'm agnostic, for crying out loud. I don't want to be told what to believe.
{As an aside, HOLY HELL. My friend, who is a Mormon at BYU (the Mormon college) told the missionaries to go out and recruit me. HOLY HELL. HOLY FUCKING HELL. They called me up and left a pious message about salvation in the Latter-Day Saints, good god!}
But the thing I hate the most about Stephenie Meyer is the fact that first, she sucks at writing. Seriously, seriously sucks. You want good writing? Check out Mercedes Lackey. Check out Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hell, check out Dan Brown! Dan Brown writes better than SMeyer! But no, I can't call her out on that because how many books have I gotten published?
Okay, you want something else? How about how she glorifies unhealthy, abusive relationships between horrible people? Seriously, her characters are atrocious people and their relationships are horrifying.
But I'm not allowed to rant about that because it's clear that I'm just jealous of SMeyer's self-insert Sues, because clearly I want a boyfriend like Edward or Jacob or that fucking wife-beater from The Host.
I've always believed that fandom makes you do stupid things. God knows I've experienced that - look at my tumblr! (Also, I apologize for the waves of spam from my blog. Really, I do.) But the fandom for SMeyer's works have to be the most immature and fucking braindead fans ever.
I should stop caring, because it's giving me health issues. I should stop caring because people are sick of my ranting IRL. I should stop caring because there is nothing I can do about it.
But I can't. THIS IS WHAT IS POPULAR. THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE READING AND LIKING. FUCKING ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS, ROMANTICIZED.
Okay, I got that off my chest. I'll probably scream again.
ALSO? SHE FUCKING RIPPED OFF ANIMORPHS. THE HOST IS A FUCKING ANIMORPHS RIPOFF. BLOODY HELL.
Okay, I'm really done. Really.
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE.
I fucking hate Stephenie Meyer. I have never hated anyone I've never personally met, but she was the straw that broke this camel's back. And the worst part is no one will allow me to call her out. Bloody hell. It's like just because I'm not a middle-aged Mormon housewife who got a wildly popular fiction series published, I can't criticize her. Good god, I've never been so frustrated. Makes me glad that das_sporking exists. Thank the Allmighty Whatsit that Mervin and Mrs. Hyde and gehayi and all of those lovely people are out there and share my hatred of Stephenie Meyer and her works.
Why do I hate her works? It's fairly simple, really. First, she shoves her religion down our throats with pretty much every book she writes. I can't tell if it's intentional or not. Either way, I can't stand that. I'm agnostic, for crying out loud. I don't want to be told what to believe.
{As an aside, HOLY HELL. My friend, who is a Mormon at BYU (the Mormon college) told the missionaries to go out and recruit me. HOLY HELL. HOLY FUCKING HELL. They called me up and left a pious message about salvation in the Latter-Day Saints, good god!}
But the thing I hate the most about Stephenie Meyer is the fact that first, she sucks at writing. Seriously, seriously sucks. You want good writing? Check out Mercedes Lackey. Check out Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hell, check out Dan Brown! Dan Brown writes better than SMeyer! But no, I can't call her out on that because how many books have I gotten published?
Okay, you want something else? How about how she glorifies unhealthy, abusive relationships between horrible people? Seriously, her characters are atrocious people and their relationships are horrifying.
But I'm not allowed to rant about that because it's clear that I'm just jealous of SMeyer's self-insert Sues, because clearly I want a boyfriend like Edward or Jacob or that fucking wife-beater from The Host.
I've always believed that fandom makes you do stupid things. God knows I've experienced that - look at my tumblr! (Also, I apologize for the waves of spam from my blog. Really, I do.) But the fandom for SMeyer's works have to be the most immature and fucking braindead fans ever.
I should stop caring, because it's giving me health issues. I should stop caring because people are sick of my ranting IRL. I should stop caring because there is nothing I can do about it.
But I can't. THIS IS WHAT IS POPULAR. THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE READING AND LIKING. FUCKING ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS, ROMANTICIZED.
Okay, I got that off my chest. I'll probably scream again.
ALSO? SHE FUCKING RIPPED OFF ANIMORPHS. THE HOST IS A FUCKING ANIMORPHS RIPOFF. BLOODY HELL.
Okay, I'm really done. Really.