Foxy immortal teens and their virginal prey

[proggrrl]

Oddly, all the truly hawt photos of the TWILIGHT kids are...inside the issue?

This is good...this is much better... (HT mediocrechick)

So why go with the less sexy shot on the cover?  Toning it down or sumptin'?  Hmm.

I laughed, but was very interested, when I read this:
Because Edward is a vampire who has renounced sucking human blood (he and his

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[dianora2]

Stephanie Meyer is a Mormon so the books are all about NOT having sex. Hence its non-sexually-threatening popularity with tweens. *g*

[proggrrl]

Aha.... *nods*

Well, that's just one more reason I am so much more psyched for TRUE BLOOD, then. *g*

[metatxt]

the erotics of abstinence?

I never realized Twilight was such a cultural/intellectual minefield before. Though this definitely furthers my personal disinterest, it certainly gives me more to chew on.

[proggrrl]

You know, I just added a final line to this post...see above. But really, if this idea of abstinence-eroticism squicks you...let me direct you to TRUE BLOOD. It's going to go in a VERY different direction. Check out the novels the show is based on while you're waiting...NO ABSTINENCE THERE.

No siree bob.

:D

[metatxt]

I agree - vampirism and the erotic are definitely intertwined and part of the vampire genre for forever, so the abstinence bit is a new twist. but I am so bored with the concept of denial and restraining desire as morally superior, to me it just seems like more of the same non-genre thematics of post-modern longing under the guise of anti-genre ingenuity.

Course True Blood is definitely on my radar :D I'm hoping the Futon Critic mixed-review is not a sign of what's to come, cuz I loooooove Anna Paquin and Alan Ball.

[proggrrl]

I saw the first leaked pilot, and I liked it. I've heard both positive and negative comments from friends.

It's somewhere in the continuum between Anne Rice and NEAR DARK for me (interestingly, Alan Ball said this week that's his all time fave vamp movie, btw).

I am so bored with the concept of denial and restraining desire as morally superior

One of the ways that True Blood (and I suppose in some ways, even Twilight) deals with that idea of restraint, is the "do I turn my loved one, or not?" issue. To join the immortals, or not. Immortals who have become convinced they do not want to bring anyone else over. It's an interesting wrinkle...with many sexual metaphors, as always.