Twilight!

[Lace Neil Singer]

But when they demand to know why I don't like them and I tell them why, suddenly I'm getting reamed by six different sources and grilled left and right and it basically feels like 'how DARE you not LOVE the books??"

By their reaction you'd think I'd stated an opinion that I think Hitler and his ideas were pretty good.

Yeah; it's like suddenly finding out that the phrase, "I hate Twilight," means "Your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries". -.-

[Fryk]

I fart in your sparkly direction!!!!!!

[jackfaire]

Your momma was a snowblower!

[gremcint]

http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009...2-09-new-moon/

[lordlundar]

Your momma was a snowblower!

No! You have to do the whole line!

"Hey Laser lips! Your momma was a snowblower!"

[Greenday]

Today, I woke up and looked in the mirror and noticed that my face was covered in glittler. I asked my wife about it and she said she put it on me while I was sleeping so that I would sparkle like Edward from Twilight when I'm in the sunlight. FML

And you guys think Twilight is harmless...

[Boozy]

And you guys think Twilight is harmless...

I believe that Twilight is harmless and FML.com is mostly bullshit, and your anecdote hasn't changed either of those opinions.

[Greenday]

I believe that Twilight is harmless and FML.com is mostly bullshit, and your anecdote hasn't changed either of those opinions.

Yea, I'd say 99% of the FMLs posted are complete BS.

[KabeRinnaul]

Here's two more Twilight FMLs.
http://www.fmylife.com/love/9321
http://www.fmylife.com/miscellaneous/6472262

And also, my favorite review of the series: Sparkledammerung.


But anyway. My personal dislike of the series is due to the following:
1. It's everywhere. I work front end at a grocery store. Rob Pattinson may be a decent guy, but I get tired of seeing his glitter-covered face staring at me from the cover of every magazine we sell.
2. The very creepy relationships. From Edward being a stalker to the whole "imprinting" thing with the werewolves.
3. Bella's mary sue tendencies. It just bothers me.
4. The complete defanging and neutering of vampires. What were once dangerous predators and the very embodiment of the dangers of lust... are now beautiful, flawless superheroes covered in glitter.

[Slytovhand]

Firstly, how did this thread make it to 10 pages???? I didn't think Twilight would be worth it...

Secondly, LadyB - you're post on abusive relationships doesn't quite fit with the whole idea of what it's supposed to be like with such vampires (bearing in mind, I've only seen the first movie, and not read the books - I wasn't that impressed). If such beings did exist, then the rules would change with them. I think that's a fair enough assumption - for any universe in which the heroes are not day to day people (Spiderman, Superman, etc) - and not overly dissimilar to how Dracula had hold over his minions (and similar to any decent vampire flick). If the magic is real, so are the connections.

But... it's fantasy! And, if people start envisioning their partners in a similar way, then woe be them.

Yahoo girl was just loopy! (and very young... and can't spell ) Isn't a fantasy world something you occasionally escape into - not something you try to make into your whole life?

[McDreidel09]

While I personally do not like Twilight, I do not hate anyone that does. I have read all four books, just to try it and I did not like them all that much. My little sister likes the movies. I do give her the lecture about the "romance" that Edward and Bella have and how it is completely dysfunctional. I let her know that she should not be with anyone who has stalker like or abusive tendencies and that if her and her boyfriend break up, it is not the end of the world and she shouldn't hurt herself over it, like Bella did.

My little sister, being the ever so wise one, said "Oh I know that, Sissy. You would have that kind of guy on the ground bleeding with his balls down his throat if that were to happen. I just like the movies because they are an escape."

My faith in teenagers was restored.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I don't hate fans of the books; in fact, I have friends who love Twilight. However, I do hate the rabid, nasty, downright vicious fangirls who the series has spawned, just as they hate me for daring to dislike their pwecious Mary Sue bitch and glittery Gary Stu stalker.

[bunnyboy]

My little sister, being the ever so wise one, said "Oh I know that, Sissy. You would have that kind of guy on the ground bleeding with his balls down his throat if that were to happen. I just like the movies because they are an escape."

My faith in teenagers was restored.

I'd be worried a little, I think she underestimated....

they'd most likely be lodged in his rectum, from the mouth side.... though I guess that is technically down the throat.

[KabeRinnaul]

Kheldarson found this.

It would worry me a bit if I wasn't sure it was just as much BS as FML and MLIA. But still... 70 pages in four days?

Correction - She found it on CS and then showed me.

[LadyBarbossa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-turfrcQY-w