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[reipan]

Okay, this'll be short. I don't do posts like this very often, so you should consider yourselves very lucky.

Let's just get one thing straight - I liked the book Twilight okay. Problems with their vampires, sure, but it was decently written and the plot wasn't bad. Nevertheless, however...I knew that book would be trouble from the moment I first picked it up.

Any book/film/necktie that spawns a tonne of fangirls saying "I LOVE THIS BOOK/FILM/NECKTIE!!!!! <insert character here> IS SO HAAAAAAWWWWWT!!!!!!" is trouble. Big trouble. I'm starting to spot the intrusions into fanfiction already, mainly in the form of author's notes going "I loved the book Twilight! Edward Cullen is so HAWT lol" followed by either a reference to the book or an OC suspiciously similar to the object of their affections. I haven't even ventured into the Twilight fandom; I don't think I'd emerge with my brain in one piece. (Predictably, most of the fangirls fancy either Edward or Jacob Black.)

I can see why writers or film-makers might want their characters to be fanciable, don't get me wrong; I don't begrudge them that, although the picture-perfect beauties of Meyer's work got my back up just a little. I also don't have a problem with people fancying these eminently fanciable characters; that's sort of what they're there for. But when entire stories start getting written around the perceived Extreme Hawtness of these characters...something terrible has been created. And I very much Do Not Want It.

Stephanie Meyer, this is nothing personal, but if your books result in a new generation of perfect, carved-from-rock vampire Mary-Sues, I may have to hunt you down and remove you from your keyboard. It'd be a shame, but ultimately, I think, for the best.

Comments

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

I've seen this series(?) on quite a few F!S posts - that's all I know about it, alas/thank goodness.

[broseceilingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh Karda Dearest

It's looking like I'm going to be about an hour and 10E from London for the next year or so... How close are you to London?

=D

[reipan.livejournal.com]

Pretty close, in fact! But...when are you arriving? I'm leaving the country in November. ^^;

[broseceilingcat.livejournal.com]

Possibly for a day/afternoon somewhere between May 15-25th, and from then on through to next April ^^

[reipan.livejournal.com]

May 15th, huh? My exams finish on May 16th, and then I'm free as a bird ^_^

[hippyjolteon.livejournal.com]

Stephanie Meyer, this is nothing personal, but if your books result in a new generation of perfect, carved-from-rock vampire Mary-Sues, I may have to hunt you down and remove you from your keyboard.

I'll join you in the hunt, but not before the many, many "rock" puns that these Sues will have to endure.