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Rant the First
Name Withheld to Protect Their Identity:
I am (I was)* reading the books. I like some of the supporting characters -- Alice and Jasper especially: they deserve to be in a better series (one reason I wrote the both of them into the crossover fic I'm writing); Charlie Swan, too, is a good if somewhat quiet guy who's been screwed over by the women in his life (well, he's a good character until his personality is assassinated in Broken Down, aka Breaking Dawn, but even some fans consider that book a Wall Banger). I think Stephanie Meyers had some good ideas, she just underused/underdeveloped them horribly.
This does not make me "infected" as you call it. Just because I've gotten past the "OMG kill it with fire!1111" stage does not meant I'm going to start squeeing over the books and gushing over how awesome they are. I still think they're dangerous for impressionable tweenagers and teenagers. I'm thirty-two years old, I've been in a bad relationship before and I know the warning signs. Reading these books is not going to erode that. For pity's sake, I've been watching TrueBlood on DVD lately, and that's practically made of contra-Twilight (it also has an awesome ensemble of actors playing an equally awesome ensemble of characters: I'm crushing on Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton, and Anna Paquin isn't just playing the role of Sookie Stackhouse, she *IS* Sookie Stackhouse: she's just how I imagined the character while I was reading Charlaine Harris's books, and she does that Louisiana accent so well, you'd think she grew up there. And Lafayette cracks me up constantly; the bit where he chews out the rednecks in Merlotte's for sending back the burger he just cooked up is a Crowning Moment of Awesome).
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*To those who catch the reference, this was unintentional, but it made me smirk a bit.
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Rant the Second
To a certain forum (or the posters thereon):
Just because a fanfic is crossed over with Twilight does *NOT* preclude that the fic-author is necessarily a fan of Twilight. I'm relieved that you copy-pastaed an older listing of crossovers (on ff.n), and thus didn't include mine, because if you had, I would have been annoyed with you for assuming this and I would have registered just to set the record straight. Also, chill pills. Take them.
Name Withheld to Protect Their Identity:
I am (I was)* reading the books. I like some of the supporting characters -- Alice and Jasper especially: they deserve to be in a better series (one reason I wrote the both of them into the crossover fic I'm writing); Charlie Swan, too, is a good if somewhat quiet guy who's been screwed over by the women in his life (well, he's a good character until his personality is assassinated in Broken Down, aka Breaking Dawn, but even some fans consider that book a Wall Banger). I think Stephanie Meyers had some good ideas, she just underused/underdeveloped them horribly.
This does not make me "infected" as you call it. Just because I've gotten past the "OMG kill it with fire!1111" stage does not meant I'm going to start squeeing over the books and gushing over how awesome they are. I still think they're dangerous for impressionable tweenagers and teenagers. I'm thirty-two years old, I've been in a bad relationship before and I know the warning signs. Reading these books is not going to erode that. For pity's sake, I've been watching TrueBlood on DVD lately, and that's practically made of contra-Twilight (it also has an awesome ensemble of actors playing an equally awesome ensemble of characters: I'm crushing on Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton, and Anna Paquin isn't just playing the role of Sookie Stackhouse, she *IS* Sookie Stackhouse: she's just how I imagined the character while I was reading Charlaine Harris's books, and she does that Louisiana accent so well, you'd think she grew up there. And Lafayette cracks me up constantly; the bit where he chews out the rednecks in Merlotte's for sending back the burger he just cooked up is a Crowning Moment of Awesome).
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*To those who catch the reference, this was unintentional, but it made me smirk a bit.
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Rant the Second
To a certain forum (or the posters thereon):
Just because a fanfic is crossed over with Twilight does *NOT* preclude that the fic-author is necessarily a fan of Twilight. I'm relieved that you copy-pastaed an older listing of crossovers (on ff.n), and thus didn't include mine, because if you had, I would have been annoyed with you for assuming this and I would have registered just to set the record straight. Also, chill pills. Take them.
