So... that happened

[cleolinda]

I just spent an hour on the phone with a reporter who wants to write an article focusing on the more disturbing aspects of New Moon, the ones that parents may not know about, and it was the best game of Horrify the Twilight Noob EVER. It may actually be the longest such game on record. She knew to ask about all the controversial points, but... not

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[lyrangalia]

I am definitely going to keep an eye out for that article when you give details, Cleo.

Damn that must have been a fun game.

[emerald_skies]

It never ceases to make me boggle at how Twimoms think this series presents a good role model/ideal relationship. I wonder if we read the same books v_v

Anyway, I look forward to this article (because of the epic game of Horrify The Twilight Noob and also just because you make good points and are all-around awesome).

[greyduck]

Twimoms think this series presents a good role model/ideal relationship

Yeah... like my ex-wife. *deep sigh*

I spend a lot of my parental-visit time with my daughter doing damage control on that particularly skewed view of reality...

[cleolinda]

Oh, laws. Well, at least you DO. I didn't want to be all like, "Parents, talk to your kids about Edward Cullen! And also drugs, if you get around to that." But yeah, there is a view of the world in those books that needs to be questioned and discussed.

[tabbyclaw]

That literally made me laugh so hard I hurt.

[xmyrin]

lol, I love the tag.

I'm glad someone is writing an article about the more disturbing aspects of the Twilight universe. I think these aspects of the stories too often get swept under the carpet.

[particle_person]

Cleolinda Jones: Senior Sparkle Correspondent. HATERS TO THE LEFT.

HOO-rah!
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I read your comment on Twitter and I'm just glad there was nobody else in the room to hear me laughing.

[cleolinda]

Hee, yeah. She was really on the ball with the questions, too. What I hope she brings up--and I think she will--is that books/movies like Harry Potter and The Golden Compass take so much shit from religious groups, and yet I have heard no outcry at all over the creepier aspects of the Twilight books.

[soleta_nf]

Excellent point.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, I think she brought up the Harry Potter angle, and I was like, "AND ALSO THE GOLDEN COMPASS WHICH HAPPENS TO ALSO BE A CHRIS WEITZ FILM SINCE WE ARE SPEAKING OF NEW MOON. P.S. Chris Weitz I luff him." So... yeah.

I don't know, I felt like it helped to find things to be positive about, so I didn't come across as a vocational shrew.

[chulacabra]

Lainey from laineygossip.com posts her Twilight hate mail and hoo boy. Have fun with that, is what I'm saying.

[cleolinda]

Hee. I just hope it's all as hilarious as "cleoloindaisgay." That is seriously one of the most awesome things that has ever happened on this journal.

Mostly, though, if I can tell from an email within a sentence that it's hate mail, I'll just close it. Life is too short to accept other people's negative energy (not to be too New Age-y about it, but there you are).

[editornia]

Mostly, though, if I can tell from an email within a sentence that it's hate mail, I'll just close it.

That is a really good practice. One I should adopt...