The Trouble with Twilight

[trillianastra]

I have a feeling I might come to regret it, but I've started reading the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. Currently, I've finished New Moon and am half-way through EclipseTechnically, the situation is not good. The writing wavers between dreadful, poor, and not-quite-so-bad-if-you-try-not-to-think-about-it. But honestly, it's not the writing that

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[lady_akatari]

A friend of mine--who has a story with much more traditional mythic characters, where much actual research was done and the differences were carefully planned (for instance, her vampires--like Dracula--don't burn up in sunlight; they're also unaffected by holy water because, in her words, "it makes them too easy to kill!")--and I--working on an urban-fantasy 'verse where vampires are actually evil, shock!--came up with a multi-crossover where one of her vampire characters (in outraged dignity) and my various-evil-things-hunting MC (in "good grief, this idiot makes people walk up to vampires and basically ask to be eaten; KILL HER WITH FIRE!") team up to... explain a few things to Meyer.

It amused us. Greatly.

Have you read cleolinda's reviews of the books?

[trillianastra]

Oh, cleolinda's reviews were what made me want to read them, actually.

Also, I started this random semicrack fic where I picked the five most famous vamps I could think of (Dracula, Lestat - the Stuart Townsend version - Mina Harker from LXG, Angel and Spike) get together to teach the Cullens a few things about vampirism.

(And your friend's story sounds cool, btw.)

[libbyish]

#1. Do a straight re-write. Obviously this is going to involve drastic re-working of the plot.

#2. Multi-fandom crossover, featuring some famous vampires and their bafflement at the Cullens' continued claims that they're "vampires" too.

I refuse to read any of the books themselves, but I'd put in an effort to read #1 and HOLY HELL I would read the frig out of #2.

[trillianastra]

hee...

I actually started writing #2. Still a WIP though.