Where the heck have you been??

[wiliqueen]

Hey, look! Once again it's "news" that girls are into comics and media fandom. Lots of girls, even.

Welcome to 1985. *eyeroll*

Comments

[wiliqueen]

The sparkling is a handy shorthand/symbol for All That Is Absurd About Twilight (which is a rather vast category that really cries out for a shorthand/symbol), and I use it that way as much as anyone, but ironically it doesn't actually bother me in and of itself

"a bad case of thesaurus addiction"

[studiesinlight]

I admit that I've only read about three pages of the first book. The prose was so purple that it made Baroness Orczy look post-modern in her restraint.

Gracious, but I loathe low-stakes vampire universes. What's the point of a tame vampire?

Re: "a bad case of thesaurus addiction"

[wiliqueen]

To her credit (as slight a dent as it makes in the loooong debit column), Meyer's vamps are high-stakes in the sense you and I usually discuss. Edward and his surrogate family hunt only animals, and are viewed with suspicion by other vampires as a result. It's taken as read that starting to feed on a human will result in the human's death. And even if they were to exhibit some miraculous burst of self-control -- or be interrupted, as demonstrated by the primary villain taking a bite out of Bella's hand and being dispatched before he can finish the job -- they have "venom" that immediately commences the painful process of converting the victim if they don't die outright