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

[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

[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? ^_^;

[kaysa3]

you WIN FOREVER. People do not read vampire stories because they're really love stories, vampires are not beautiful, and that sounded like it was written by a horny 13 year old girl. angst much?

I hated that fucking book with a *passion* and I'm proud to say I've never seen any of the HSM movies. But I do feel badly for you that you're forced to go :/

hehe. you sound like a rational, intelligent adult who knows literature very well. gosh... I don't know how you'll ever survive that terrible blow to your ego...

in other news... I've started reading "People of the Book" and I think I really like it so far. Its kind of like the "The Historian" but not long winded, complicated, and boring. oh, and I just stated looking for a new place to live because this place *blows* hard. I miss you :(

[starvinbohemian]

I don't win so much as the girl who originally had the balls to post that critique within the hive of mental instability.

Lol. I know, something is very wrong with that girl's reading comprehension if she came away from Dracula thinking that it was about star-crossed lovers. :/

I miss you, too! Forsake your beloved England and come home!

[kaysa3]

for real :/ I've never heard/read anything that so beautifully explained why I hated that book. It was like... watching a car wreck. you just... can't stop looking until its done.

believe me. I'm coming home next year. Or at least to California. I love England dearly, but my home is back in the states :)

[starvinbohemian]

Really??? And here I thought we'd seen the last of you this side of the Atlantic.

I'm not going to get excited, though, because you're still in an adjustment period. You'll probably end up loving England after all. :)

[kuridee]

I am going to...I am...I am not clicking the first link. GAAAAH MY BRAIN.

Also, I pretty much agree with everything you said, and I think every Twilight fangirl should have to read Dracula.

[starvinbohemian]

LOL. Aw. *Pats brain*

I think every vampire fan or reader should read Dracula because it began the notion of the "aristocratic vampire," the beginning of what we recognize as vampires today. He's, much as I shudder to say this, the great-grandfather of Edward Cullen and Lestat.

[cheyvonne]

That comic made me laugh louder than I really should on the quiet floor of my school's library - and I have a tolerate/hate relationship with twilight. Am so passing it on.

[starvinbohemian]

They have a few great Twilight comics that make me LMAO. :)

[frigginspaz]

hahahaha, I'm so sorry you're forced to see HSM3. You already know about my love for HSM but I understand why it would be painful for you. See, I love it for the exact reasons everyone else hates it, haha. It's so unintentionally hilarious, and doesn't take itself too seriously, and you get fun little dance numbers and pretty Zac Efron!
/mini-defense of HSM

Ugh, Twilight. I can't believed I liked it for like five seconds. I'm totally gonna see the movie though, just for the lulz. CHING! Sparkle, sparkle!

[starvinbohemian]

You and your love of crappy things. ;)

I would forgive HSM if I truly believed that it didn't take itself seriously. But the huge franchise and multiple sequels and commercialization tells me otherwise.

Yes, Zac Efron is pretty. That will get me through.