So You're Dating a Twighlighter
It's all happened, you're really grooving on the new girlfriend and everything is going great and THEN. Then you find out something odd or wierd and you have to make a decision to work around said thing or break it off. 99%
of the time you work around it.
Twighlight is an especially hard thing to deal with. Especially for a comic nerd so here, free of charge, is the officail:
RebelByrdie's Shenanigans Inc
Guide to Comic Nerd-Twighlighter Relations
Step One: Shake your fist at God, Budda, Allah, Stan Lee, Joss Whedon or whomever you worship and scream "WHY?!"
Step Two: Box up all your anti Twighlight merch. I'm talking about the Vampires Don't Sparkle tee-shirts, the Twighlight Ruined Comic Con signs, the Stephanie Meyer vodoo dolls, all of it. Take it, put it in a box and put the bo under your bed between the Battlestar Galactica porn and your pirated copy of Iron Man 2, she'll never look there and you won't have to hear the pro-Twighlight argument.
Step Three: Selective Hearing. You won't always be able to avoid the subject, so I recomend selective hearing. When she says Bella and Edward, you hear Batman and Catwoman or Mal and Inara. Team Edward or Jacob become Team Marvel and Team DC. Nod about every three sentences or when she looks at you. DO NOT COMMENT because by now you will have forgotten that the conversation isn't about the newest issue of Secret Six and you'll be right back at the debate.
Step Four: Twighlight the Graphic novel does NOT make things better. It will kill your soul, it is not a happy medium of the two fandoms. Kill it, kill it with fire but if she gives it to you, put it on the shelf anyway...just not near to anything you don't want contaminated. Might I suggest a buffer of DC Countdown or Marvel Ultimite Anything, that should keep your Batman and anything by Gail Simone relativly safe.
Step Five: Follow Through. Keep to these steps, keep your incredibly geeky mouth with all its Twighlight hate closed (around her at least) and you should survive....and not have to sleep on the couch.
of the time you work around it.
Twighlight is an especially hard thing to deal with. Especially for a comic nerd so here, free of charge, is the officail:
RebelByrdie's Shenanigans Inc
Guide to Comic Nerd-Twighlighter Relations
Step One: Shake your fist at God, Budda, Allah, Stan Lee, Joss Whedon or whomever you worship and scream "WHY?!"
Step Two: Box up all your anti Twighlight merch. I'm talking about the Vampires Don't Sparkle tee-shirts, the Twighlight Ruined Comic Con signs, the Stephanie Meyer vodoo dolls, all of it. Take it, put it in a box and put the bo under your bed between the Battlestar Galactica porn and your pirated copy of Iron Man 2, she'll never look there and you won't have to hear the pro-Twighlight argument.
Step Three: Selective Hearing. You won't always be able to avoid the subject, so I recomend selective hearing. When she says Bella and Edward, you hear Batman and Catwoman or Mal and Inara. Team Edward or Jacob become Team Marvel and Team DC. Nod about every three sentences or when she looks at you. DO NOT COMMENT because by now you will have forgotten that the conversation isn't about the newest issue of Secret Six and you'll be right back at the debate.
Step Four: Twighlight the Graphic novel does NOT make things better. It will kill your soul, it is not a happy medium of the two fandoms. Kill it, kill it with fire but if she gives it to you, put it on the shelf anyway...just not near to anything you don't want contaminated. Might I suggest a buffer of DC Countdown or Marvel Ultimite Anything, that should keep your Batman and anything by Gail Simone relativly safe.
Step Five: Follow Through. Keep to these steps, keep your incredibly geeky mouth with all its Twighlight hate closed (around her at least) and you should survive....and not have to sleep on the couch.