Woww… Seriously? xD
Thanks to dead_psycho in the twilight_sucks community on livejournal for posting this.
Posts tagged ‘wtf’
Jul
28
Twilight fan fail
Jul
10
uhh…? =/
Courtesy of the Twilight_sucks community on livejournal.
Everybody go here. Now. Seriously. I think I just died laughing. xD
Apr
23
Alex likes Amy Pond XD
Completely copy/pasted from this site.
Book banners SUCK.
Mom Wants Anti-Twilight Banned
Posted by jeannesager on February 21st, 2010 at 12:14 pmOne of a host of books one Mom wants banned has a lot in common with Twilight. But what makes The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants the antithesis of the vampire quadrilogy is one of the chief reasons parents should be embracing it.
Like Twilight, Ann Brashares Sisterhood is a young adult book with a cult adult following. Like Twilight, it’s spawned two movies.It’s also part of a quartet of books.
And that’s where the comparisons end. Because unlike Twilight (which I admit I love, despite myself), the Sisterhood follows four kick butt girls around the world, focusing on girl power and friendship over boys, boys, boys.
It’s just the sort of series I’ll be saving for my daughter (because, yes, I fell victim to that cult following too – I have all four on my shelves). So why is one Wisconsin mom on a mission to have it kicked out of her local school library?
For the same reason parents everywhere call for banning books. She’s scared her kid will read something she herself isn’t comfortable with. So she’s got a whole list – including One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, a sort of teenaged diary about the life of a teen girl after her mother dies. WISN reports the mother told the school board the book is “inappropriate” for the shelves of the school library.
Her fight earned the school a letter from the book’s author, Sonya Sones, appropriately pointing out of Ann Wentworth is so worried about her kid reading the book, then, well, she shouldn’t LET her.
Because she is, after all, still the parent. Which is the argument we give again and again against potential book banners. Make your own decisions about your kids, and we’ll make our own decisions about ours. If you do decided to allow your kid to read it, read it yourself, make it a conversation starter. And on and on and on.
I haven’t read Sones’ book (although now I’m going to – the chief success of these book banners!), so I personally have zeroed in on the plight of the Sisterhood books on Wentworth’s list. In that case, I can tell you I’d prefer my kid learn about friendship, adversity, divorce, racial issues and everything else that’s packed in there – yes, even s-e-x (when handled in the way it is in the Brashares’ series) as part of her education.
We’re training kids to be grown ups one day. Can we start acting like them ourselves?
I didn’t even really like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but I will still defend it against being banned.
Honestly, the author of this article is right about it being the Anti-Twilight. It’s just about four girls living their lives. And if this lady trying to ban the series thinks THAT is bad, she really shouldn’t read like… every other YA novel these days. Because The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is absolutely nothing compared to the sexual content in other books. Completely tame, seriously.
But just UGH. Book banners absolutely SUCK.
Found this article through Maureen Johnson’s twitter account http://twitter.com/maureenjohnson, and if you want to read the follow-up to this article, you can find it here.
Jan
23
Oh dear God…
Source: http://www.bookbyyou.com/vampire/default.asp
Found it through twilightsucks.com… you can also try out a “free personalized demo” here .
Don’t know what I’m talking about yet? I’m not sure you want to.
As the user glados209 said on twilightsucks: “That sounds almost ironic, it’s like Twilight, but where the main character is cast to represent the reader rather than the author.”
Read at your own risk. =(
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Their next unexpected rendezvous occurs at a campus alumni party, and after some clever repartee the hook is set, but once again our hero mysteriously disappears. Not to be outdone, our heroine and her best friend decide to hunt for their mystery man. Little do they know the tables have turned, and they are the ones hunted!
Our hero is centuries old and doomed by a vampire’s curse. Luckily, his intellect and compassion enable him to control his primal instincts. Nevertheless, he shies away from our heroine, fearing his vampire urges will harm the one he both admires…and desires. After much intrigue, our couple’s paths become entwined and it’s not long before cupid’s arrows find their mark and they fall in love.
The plot thickens when our hero’s unnatural habits give him away, and our boisterous beauty discovers that the man she loves has a bite that is definitely worse than his bark. They are forced apart; he by his worry of turning his beloved into one of his own, and she by the unsavory thought of becoming her love’s next meal.
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Dec
01
Saga vs. Series
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.
Nov
28
True Story
