Source = guywiththecoat on youtube

It is actually courtesy of the Twilight Addict that I give you this clip of the character Damon (aka Spike from Buffy reincarnated) making fun of Twilight, and telling his teenybopper girlfriend about real vampires.

But seriously:  new favourite show of the moment.  Besides Dollhouse.  (which you can learn all about here at whyiwatch.com)

But anyway, yeah.

Vampire Diaries makes fun of Twilight!  Completely made my day.

The person disabled embedding it, but if you click the above link, it’s just a short clip from Youtube.

Oh, and some PG-13 content.  The girl he’s talking to is in her underwear & they kiss a little.  But it’s from cable TV so it’s not that big of a deal. =)

I’m not an avid Vampire Diaries fan… In fact, I only just saw the first episode yesterday.
I’ve also never read the books.

BUT, I am already pleased with what I’ve seen. Even though so far the main vamp guy (Stefan, is it?) is without a doubt modelled after Robert Pattinson as Edward, he at least seems to, you know, have fangs & drink blood & stuff.

So, this is for any Vampire Diaries fans out there. Why it’s better than Twilight, according to the NY Post.

Listen up, Twi-hards!

“Twilight” may get all the headlines (”New Moon” Crosses $200 Mil Mark!” “Kristen Stewart: ‘I’m So Not Bella!’”).

But “The Vampire Diaries,” also a tale of the deadly undead, has quietly built a loyal following, first as a series of young-adult novels and now as a CW TV series.

The two may seem the same — both are high-school-set dramas about a young mortal girl in love with a brooding vampire guy — but “The Vampire Diaries” is no “Twilight” wannabe.

With the first 10 episodes of “Diaries” as evidence (all week, the CW is marathoning the season so far on Ch. 11, vamping until the show returns next month), here are five reasons it’s better than “Twilight”:

LOVE BITE: Nina Dobrev (left) and Kayla Ewell, from the breakout “Vampire Diaries,” are more fun than those mopey kids from “Twilight.”
1.) Believe it or not, “The Vampire Diaries” came first.

The “Vampire Diaries” book series, by L. J. Smith, started in 1991 — that’s 14 years ahead of Stephenie Meyer’s first “Twilight” book, in 2005.

The series went out of print until 2007, when creator Alloy Entertainment — the company that gave us the “Gossip Girl” book and TV series — worked on a reissue and shopped around a TV version.

“We certainly saw the success of the ‘Twilight’ books and felt that there was an opportunity,” Alloy Entertainment president Les Morgenstein told The Post.

2.) The Vampire Diaries is bloody, gory and full of killing.

In other words, it’s a more traditional vampire horror tale than “Twilight,” which is heavy on romance, light on murder.

And while they all look like models in both series, the ones on “Diaries” sometimes get dirty.

“The vampires, while pretty, are still sort of vicious,” explained Lindsay Soll, editor of MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog. “When they’re hungry and about to feed, their fangs come out — they don’t even have fangs in ‘Twilight’ — and their veins stick out. They’re not afraid to make pretty people ugly.”

They’re also not afraid to make pretty people die.

There’s already a sizable body count and, now that the people of Mystic Falls, Va., are gathering their stakes and fighting back, Morgenstein promised, “There will be more killings.”

3.) These sexy vampires actually have sex!

In “Twilight,” Bella and Edward lust after each other and yet miraculously manage to avoid having sex. Written by a Mormon, “Twilight” has long been considered an abstinence fantasy.

Not so “Vampire Diaries,” which has no falsely neutered innocence.

“We’re not pulling any punches,” said Morgenstein.

4.) Elena is an independent young woman.

Perhaps “Twilight” is so popular because Bella is a blank slate, an everywoman on which young girls can project fantasies of themselves.

But Elena, of “Diaries,” sets an example for young girls as a strong-minded woman.

“She doesn’t let her attraction to Stefan completely control her, whereas Bella is totally blinded by her passion,” Soll said.

“When Bella finds out that Edward’s a vampire, she acts like she’s just learned he went to the dentist — as if it’s no big deal.” “She gives herself over to Edward, while Elena questions it all, like most people would.”

5.) Had it with the Twi-hype? “The Vampire Diaries” is the underdog.

And who doesn’t love rooting for an underdog?

Evidently it’s a vampire’s world right now — but we get to choose which of many vampire tales to watch. (HBO’s “True Blood” will return next June, by the way.).

And since “Twilight” didn’t invent vampires, how about giving Bella and Edward’s vacant, lovestruck gaze a rest, and resting your eyes on “The Vampire Diaries.”

Source: nypost.com

Thanks to @melissa_marr, and @lotuselyse on Twitter for…. well, for tweeting about it and giving me the tip. =)

Oh, and to the obsessed Vampire Diaries fan I know who tells me to watch the show every chance she gets.

I’M WATCHING IT, OKAY??? xD

From JamesAtWar on Youtube.

I especially love the guy dressed up as “Bella”… complete with a wig and everything! xD
 

Vampax… Courtesy of Funny or Die. 

Umm… I think it goes without saying that there’s adult content?  Just references though.

Anyway… enjoy?

Methinks Bella likes Edward by *Scargut-the-Gutless on deviantART

Interesting blog post up. I found it via Melissa Marr, another author I really like a lot.

She’s one of the people Stephenie Meyer has dissed (in the process, giving us Mortal Instruments fans a bad rap with the disgruntled Wicked Lovely fanbase… Thankfully  Melissa stepped in & was super nice about it.) & — understandably — doesn’t seem to like Twilight very much.

Anyway, this is kind of funny, just thought you’d all enjoy. =)

Reposted from WTF: Writing Teen Fiction.

RT @melissa_marr *lit teacher moment* I didn’t write a saga–which is a specific type of text, NOT another wd for “series.”

Thank you, Melissa Marr, author of the Wicked Lovely series, for this clarification.

According to the Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory (Fourth Edition!) sagas were:

medieval Icelandic and Scandinavian prose narratives usually about a famous hero or family or the exploits of heroic kings and warriors.

Makes me wish the New Moon publicists had bothered to crack a dictionary or, heck, dictionary.com, before labeling the movie franchise The Twilight Saga. I spent four years as a groupie at the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, so this chafes me more than it does ordinary folks.

Further, Twilight is not a saga novel, an early 20th century innovation that generally involves a series of novels focusing on a large family over a period of many years. If you really want to read a saga, go pick up The Sagas of the Icelanders, a truly hefty paperback that collects these stories rendered in clean and modern English prose.

I want fan art illustrating the saga versus series struggle. In particular I want chibi Viking vs. Edward pictures. But remember, as NYU’s esteemed Anglo-Saxonist Haruko Momma reminded us non-specialists in Old English I, Viking helmets wouldn’t have had horns on them: “Would you go into battle with handles on your head? Very stupid.”

Sources:

Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

The Sagas of the Icelanders: A Selection. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

I posted it above as well, but you can find the source post here.