Poll: I can't tell if Stephenie Meyer is trolling or just a major sell out.
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Let it first be known that I am a heterosexual male. I saw the first movie, read bits of the books. Stephanie Meyer is actually a worse writer than about 65% of fan fiction "writers" active today. Her books are cliche, uninspired, insipid, melodramatic, preachy, pandering piles of tripe and dead babies. The fact that the book had moral undertones that promoted pre-marital abstinence while simultaneously pushing a sexy he-Vampire (be honest, the main character isn't Bella) as its main character (not unlike Disney with the Jonas Brothers), that alone is reason enough to render her deserving of all the hate the receives.
Also, for all you ladies who think that Edward Cullen is the archetype of what guys "should" be like, take a step back and look at him.
Realize that he became violently obsessed with a girl he didn't know at all less than a day after he'd met her, BEFORE HE'D SAID A WORD TO HER. Then he breaks into her room at night and watches her sleep. He feels physical torment because of her.
Edward Cullen is a textbook psychopath. Beyond that, he's a stalker. Sure he's the kind of guy you'd love to be with, ladies?
On a side note, take a look at yet another piece of preachy bullshit within Meyers' writing: Edward tells Bella that she, specifically, has a scent that attracts him to her stronger than anyone he's ever met before. He equates her to being "like [his] own personal brand of heroine" (Jesus fucking balls). Biting Bella and drinking her blood is a metaphor for sex, obviously. Stop for a second and think about that. Meyer thinks that sex is comparable with a form of cannibalism. Anyone who's had sex, pre-marital or otherwise, knows it isn't destructive or evil, it's just fun. It's an act of sharing, affection and trust. Meyer, poisoned by archaic, conservative Christian beliefs, seeks through her writing to perpetuate sexual repression and fear of sex within our society.
Also, for all you ladies who think that Edward Cullen is the archetype of what guys "should" be like, take a step back and look at him.
Realize that he became violently obsessed with a girl he didn't know at all less than a day after he'd met her, BEFORE HE'D SAID A WORD TO HER. Then he breaks into her room at night and watches her sleep. He feels physical torment because of her.
Edward Cullen is a textbook psychopath. Beyond that, he's a stalker. Sure he's the kind of guy you'd love to be with, ladies?
On a side note, take a look at yet another piece of preachy bullshit within Meyers' writing: Edward tells Bella that she, specifically, has a scent that attracts him to her stronger than anyone he's ever met before. He equates her to being "like [his] own personal brand of heroine" (Jesus fucking balls). Biting Bella and drinking her blood is a metaphor for sex, obviously. Stop for a second and think about that. Meyer thinks that sex is comparable with a form of cannibalism. Anyone who's had sex, pre-marital or otherwise, knows it isn't destructive or evil, it's just fun. It's an act of sharing, affection and trust. Meyer, poisoned by archaic, conservative Christian beliefs, seeks through her writing to perpetuate sexual repression and fear of sex within our society.
I quite like that hat actually. Not because it's Twilight, but it looks quite good.
Making tape is a bit excessive, though.
I have no opinion with Twilight. I've read the books, seen the movies and they're not the best things in the world, but they're not the worst either.
Making tape is a bit excessive, though.
I have no opinion with Twilight. I've read the books, seen the movies and they're not the best things in the world, but they're not the worst either.
Stephenie Meyer has better things to do than post contriversial ideas on forums, so she is not a troll, and as far as I can tell she takes these idiotic ideas that come out of her head seriously so we can't accuse her of selling out. I think the worst we can say of her is that she is not a very good writer.
What in the CHAOTIC HELLS IS THIS FUCKING ABOMINATION I SEE BEFORE ME?pixie veins said:
Not sure if it was Meyer's idea, but still. ;(
I'm sorry but why? On Play.com you can have Edward plasters/bandaids, it's irksome the amount of crap that is being made over something this bad... Forbidden Planet has duvet covers and about 25 messenger bags with dumb junk from the books on, along with dolls, keychains and pieced of cardboard with "Twilight" scrawled on them in sharpie for sale. (okay so no cardboard sharpie twilight, but I shit you not about the rest)
I was in HMV the other day, looked at this MASSIVE rack of posters on one end, you had RPatz pulling his weird "this is a smile but I look like I'm shitting glass" face, every 5 or 6 posters there was more Twilight, the middle one was another big foreheaded RPatz and on the other end there was ANOTHER one... why don't they just say "sod it" and make some RPatz wallpaper for the Twitards to rut against?
Furthermore, I was saddened that the only thing not necessarily aimed at teenage girls was a Joker poster...
Edit: As a wise old man once said: ONE MOOOOORE THING!
I just remembered that someone sent me a link to something on a sex toy website, the item in particular was a glitery pink vibrator called "The Vampire"... I laughed and then I cried...
I was in HMV the other day, looked at this MASSIVE rack of posters on one end, you had RPatz pulling his weird "this is a smile but I look like I'm shitting glass" face, every 5 or 6 posters there was more Twilight, the middle one was another big foreheaded RPatz and on the other end there was ANOTHER one... why don't they just say "sod it" and make some RPatz wallpaper for the Twitards to rut against?
Furthermore, I was saddened that the only thing not necessarily aimed at teenage girls was a Joker poster...
Edit: As a wise old man once said: ONE MOOOOORE THING!
I just remembered that someone sent me a link to something on a sex toy website, the item in particular was a glitery pink vibrator called "The Vampire"... I laughed and then I cried...
hamster mk 4 said:
When I first figured out what Twilight was about I'd gotten the foolish hope that maybe the books were a sneaky jab at shallow romance, and she was gonna come up and say "whoa hey yu girls totally missed what I was going for."
Then I found out all her work is that bad...
This is worse than the twilight birth control pills that say "No Renesme this month".
I'm not sure if you can call her either one of those, though. I somehow doubt any of the merchandise ideas came from her brain, it's basically the same generic crap they come out with for anything popular these days.
EDIT: ...and wouldn't it be worse if it was for sexual purposes?
I'm not sure if you can call her either one of those, though. I somehow doubt any of the merchandise ideas came from her brain, it's basically the same generic crap they come out with for anything popular these days.
EDIT: ...and wouldn't it be worse if it was for sexual purposes?
My vocabulary involves a number of equally uncivilized words, and I stomped the asvab so hard that now everytime I move my balls tickle uncle Sam's chin. Kindly get off your grammar school high horse, casual language has nothing to do with intelligence.Aardvark said:
Sorry to be aggressive, just false connection between intelligence and other things piss me off hard...
I like to think she's both, because if she takes her own writing seriously, then she has major issues she should see a doctor for.
Still wouldn't stop her from taking advantage of stupid tweens, though.
Still wouldn't stop her from taking advantage of stupid tweens, though.
Would that be an educated guess then?Garaw said:It's small, white, and deformed-looking. So I'm betting it was cast from Robert Pattinson's actual penis.pixie veins said:
Not sure if it was Meyer's idea, but still. ;(
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I don't find anything she's done particulary offensive. I'll even go as far as saying I liked it. But neither has she sold out. I mean, it was her first big novel yes? It's not like she was writing critically acclaimed chronicles of Van Helsing before was she?
All she's guilty of, is finding a weakness in a huge market and exploiting it. That's what I call being a commercial genius. But she's is most certainly not a literary genius it has to be said...
Any trolling is done by crazy fans or the fundamentilist hate groups. The fans are only marginally more annoying due to the excesive screaming...