I DON'T LIKE THIS GAME, shouted yamamoto, TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME
A handful of celebratory links to properly set the tone for the post (note that my browser was so horrified by what I was about to post that it crashed while I was doing this):
☆ All That Glitters, by lyrangalia: Thomas and Harry of the Dresden Files, and Twilight. Originally linked to me by lacewood. Lots of sparkly fun ahead.
☆ half-sleeping's Reborn/Dresden Files drabble, with bonus Twilight references thrown in.
☆☆☆ dopehour's tsuki to waltz wo, a scanlation of a delightfully fluffy, absolutely OOC Belphegor/Tsuna doujinshi (scanlator warning: 'in the most OOC sense possible'). Do note: this post is only public for a week, which means it disappears round about 22nd December. Preview (and because the scanlators, I think, missed posting one page):
but I know I dazzle you, Tsunayoshi
*clasps hands, happy sigh, sparkles peacefully*.
the way I feel about twilight
all icons by icobsession, here.
from cleolinda
(one of the most fascinating and hilarious journals to chronicle Twilight lolery, and so forth)
Caught Twilight with lacewood and three others who'd read (and recommended, in turn, the books to each other, until all three had finished all the books in the series). I had an absolutely amazing time, perhaps because my expectations of this movie were virtually nonexistent. Also despite turning up for the movie in a packed-to-capacity 600-seater hall on opening night, the audience resolutely refused to be batshit (I am so disappointed), and turned out to be very polite and also disturbingly sane. They also seemed to be under the impression that they had turned up to watch a comedy, due to the amount of polite but inappropriate laughter that went on during the movie.
WARNING: TWILIGHT SPOILERS AND MOCKERY BEHIND CUT
you'd think none of them were taking it seriously!
Written using cleolinda's Twilight in 15 Minutes as a guide. To be honest I couldn't make it through the guide before I watched the movie. I wandered off, bored, before I was a quarter of the way through.
Also, 28 Reasons That ‘Twilight’ the Movie Is Better Than ‘Twilight’ the Book. I think that for me there is just one reason for this, and that's because like Edward, you can't hear Bella's thoughts. So you're spared from the first-person whine (no, spellcheck, when I typed 'whininess' I did not mean shininess, although I appreciate the contextual correction) and endless Edward-is-beautiful comments.
Also, the outrageous flavour.
THESE ARE ALL REAL LINES FROM THE MOVIE
Bella: Did you follow me?
Edward Cullen: I... I feel very protective of you.
Our audience: *LAUGHS*
Bella: How old are you?
Edward Cullen: Seventeen.
Bella: How long have you been seventeen?
Edward Cullen: ...a while.
Our audience: *LAUGHS*
Edward Cullen: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
Bella: Stupid lamb.
Edward Cullen: Sick, masochistic lion.
Our audience: *LAUGHS HARDER*
I liked movie!Bella more than I thought I would. I liked that cute touch with her bringing the cactus around. To remind her of Arizona.
Yes, vampires sparkle (you have to see it live, though, the pictures don't do the TRUE SPARKLE EFFECT justice).
'Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening, pale lavender lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal.'
- Twilight
Check out the Bella-realises-Edward-is-a-vampire fantasy sequence. I LAUGHED. AND SO DID THE AUDIENCE.
There is also an apparently intentional shot where Edward's head in biology class is framed by a pair of snowy white owl's wings, to make it look as if he had wings. Audience laughed, too.
But anyway: one of my favourite parts of the movie was the vampire baseball. And it ain't just the baseball! It's the thunderstorm!baseball! Without rain! The movie absolutely managed to capture my favourite part of a thunderstorm: the moments before it begins. The scene resulted in the following conversation:
Me: !!!!!!! Edward Cullen vs. Yamamoto Takeshi!!!
lacewood: Spoiler: Yamamoto wins!
Me: NOOOOOO!!!! D:
lacewood: Do not deny it, you know it to be true!
AND NOW WITH PICTURES
VAMPIRE THUNDERSTORM BASEBALL
VAMPIRE BASEBALL GALLERY
(also source of these pictures)
BEHIND THE SCENES OF VAMPIRE BASEBALL!
The reason that the Cullens play baseball during a thunderstorm, apparently, is so as to not attract attention. Vampires are possessed of such super strength that when they hit the ball (and when they crash into each other), it sounds like thunder. Hence, thunderstorm!baseball!
RUN EDWARD RUN
oh man, every time we saw Jasper we went SOKKA, for this reason.
☆ All That Glitters, by lyrangalia: Thomas and Harry of the Dresden Files, and Twilight. Originally linked to me by lacewood. Lots of sparkly fun ahead.
☆ half-sleeping's Reborn/Dresden Files drabble, with bonus Twilight references thrown in.
☆☆☆ dopehour's tsuki to waltz wo, a scanlation of a delightfully fluffy, absolutely OOC Belphegor/Tsuna doujinshi (scanlator warning: 'in the most OOC sense possible'). Do note: this post is only public for a week, which means it disappears round about 22nd December. Preview (and because the scanlators, I think, missed posting one page):
but I know I dazzle you, Tsunayoshi
*clasps hands, happy sigh, sparkles peacefully*.
the way I feel about twilight
all icons by icobsession, here.
from cleolinda
(one of the most fascinating and hilarious journals to chronicle Twilight lolery, and so forth)
Caught Twilight with lacewood and three others who'd read (and recommended, in turn, the books to each other, until all three had finished all the books in the series). I had an absolutely amazing time, perhaps because my expectations of this movie were virtually nonexistent. Also despite turning up for the movie in a packed-to-capacity 600-seater hall on opening night, the audience resolutely refused to be batshit (I am so disappointed), and turned out to be very polite and also disturbingly sane. They also seemed to be under the impression that they had turned up to watch a comedy, due to the amount of polite but inappropriate laughter that went on during the movie.
WARNING: TWILIGHT SPOILERS AND MOCKERY BEHIND CUT
you'd think none of them were taking it seriously!
Written using cleolinda's Twilight in 15 Minutes as a guide. To be honest I couldn't make it through the guide before I watched the movie. I wandered off, bored, before I was a quarter of the way through.
Also, 28 Reasons That ‘Twilight’ the Movie Is Better Than ‘Twilight’ the Book. I think that for me there is just one reason for this, and that's because like Edward, you can't hear Bella's thoughts. So you're spared from the first-person whine (no, spellcheck, when I typed 'whininess' I did not mean shininess, although I appreciate the contextual correction) and endless Edward-is-beautiful comments.
Also, the outrageous flavour.
THESE ARE ALL REAL LINES FROM THE MOVIE
Bella: Did you follow me?
Edward Cullen: I... I feel very protective of you.
Our audience: *LAUGHS*
Bella: How old are you?
Edward Cullen: Seventeen.
Bella: How long have you been seventeen?
Edward Cullen: ...a while.
Our audience: *LAUGHS*
Edward Cullen: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
Bella: Stupid lamb.
Edward Cullen: Sick, masochistic lion.
Our audience: *LAUGHS HARDER*
I liked movie!Bella more than I thought I would. I liked that cute touch with her bringing the cactus around. To remind her of Arizona.
Yes, vampires sparkle (you have to see it live, though, the pictures don't do the TRUE SPARKLE EFFECT justice).
'Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening, pale lavender lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal.'
- Twilight
Check out the Bella-realises-Edward-is-a-vampire fantasy sequence. I LAUGHED. AND SO DID THE AUDIENCE.
There is also an apparently intentional shot where Edward's head in biology class is framed by a pair of snowy white owl's wings, to make it look as if he had wings. Audience laughed, too.
But anyway: one of my favourite parts of the movie was the vampire baseball. And it ain't just the baseball! It's the thunderstorm!baseball! Without rain! The movie absolutely managed to capture my favourite part of a thunderstorm: the moments before it begins. The scene resulted in the following conversation:
Me: !!!!!!! Edward Cullen vs. Yamamoto Takeshi!!!
lacewood: Spoiler: Yamamoto wins!
Me: NOOOOOO!!!! D:
lacewood: Do not deny it, you know it to be true!
AND NOW WITH PICTURES
VAMPIRE THUNDERSTORM BASEBALL
VAMPIRE BASEBALL GALLERY
(also source of these pictures)
BEHIND THE SCENES OF VAMPIRE BASEBALL!
The reason that the Cullens play baseball during a thunderstorm, apparently, is so as to not attract attention. Vampires are possessed of such super strength that when they hit the ball (and when they crash into each other), it sounds like thunder. Hence, thunderstorm!baseball!
RUN EDWARD RUN
oh man, every time we saw Jasper we went SOKKA, for this reason.