Taking On Teeny Boppers, One at a Time...

[starvinbohemian]

My theory on why I'm being so bitchy towards teeny boppers these days is because my entire being is rejecting the fact that in approximately 40 hours I am being dragged (obligated, guilted) to see High School Musical 3 by my family because (for some reason) my cousins appear prominently as extras. I liken the experience to being trapped in the

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[elvensapphire]

You are made of WIN, and I agree with everything you said. I've said it myself, albeit much less eloquently (because at the time I was imbued with rage and pain at having gotten sucked into the series, and my eloquence went down the drain) - what you said was perfect.

I love you for this paragraph:
What attracts people to vampire fiction, is the struggle of good and evil. Are vampires automatically damned? Are they trading away their souls for immortality, and twisted perfection? ... The moral quandary of vampires is what makes vampire fiction so great. Good and evil battle within every story, an eternal theme that replays every day within our lives and imaginations. Vampires internalize that struggle, that age-old battle, within their very beings. A battle that means their soul, or the loss of such. PRECISELY. That is what makes vampire stories good.

The Twilight fangirls (and fanmoms, who are infinitely frightening) are some form of hellion. They cannot respond with proper English and they get their panties in a twist if you insult the Cullens, or the merit of the love story, or their high priestess Stephenie Meyer. Gag me.

I am so sorry you have to suffer through HSM3. *shudders*

[elvensapphire]

Okay, so I did peruse the comments. The best part of the one you posted was her intro, "I am very sorry you feel that way . Not all vampires are suppost to be evil. I have read many books that say other wise . Alot of Ann Rice Books are base on charactiers that have a darkness , but angelic thing to them There are charactiers in her books that are straight evil. But there they ones that are just as Gental and Tormented as Edward is that struggel to be good. Look at Angel in Buffy the Vamipre slaver and his own show. He tried to be good he would slip at times. They same thing they talk about in the whole books"

Let's look at her words, shall we? "Charactiers, struggel, vamipre, suppost" and, my personal favorite, "slaver" - which is a real word, but hilarious in the context. I can forgive one or two typos, but she does it repeatedly. The same ones! And Buffy the Vampire Slaver!!! LOL Changes the whole meaning of the story. I read things like this (is that supposed to pass for English?!) and it makes me lose faith in humanity. And don't fuck with Angel, he WILL cut your head off. Lestat might, too, for that matter; he might have gone soft, but he never was one to suffer fools.

[elvensapphire]

I can't stop reading the comments, it's like a drug. A very damaging one.

"thats just it though, your saying that the writing and the style is really dumb and with all the people who love it, and the fact that it is a movie means it really isnt dumb." WHAT IS THIS EVEN SAYING? Is she saying that if a book is made into a movie, then it automatically means the book is not ridiculous? Because that? Is not Earth logic. Oy.

[starvinbohemian]

I KNOW. I know people get lazy with the typing, but seriously? ^_^;

[starvinbohemian]

It's the Anne Rice bit that really gets me. Yeah, her vampires are pretty, but they're also some of the most depraved characters I've ever encountered in literature or otherwise. None of them are "Gental." Seriously, if Lestat, or even Louis, is the nicest vamp she created, then there's something VERY WRONG with idealizing them. Anne Rice's vampires would stalk, sodomize with a blunt instrument, and then mercilessly slaughter Edward Cullen.

Yeah, Angel would NOT have suffered Edward, evil or not.

[starvinbohemian]

Aw, I didn't write the post at the forum. I'm just mocking the responses here. ^^; So, I guess the original poster is the one made of win.

But I do love me some moral quandary. Without that, then... you get Twilight. XD

At least I'll have Zac Efron to stare at for two hours. I guess.