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how she hated Dracula
growls
growls some more, exposing canines
awesome and deep
jaws snapping feverishly, foam dripping from mouth
the only reason I pretended to hate Twilight was because I was trying to hide the fact that I’m Team Jacob and all I want is some hot werewolf lovin’
shakes in chair
If I were you, Spanman, I’d have slapped her dizzy.
I think she might have also called SMeyer a “great writer”
has flashbacks to lying in bed last year, sick with rubella, hearing girls outside saying the exact same thing
leaps up, scratching desk with slowly protruding claws
eyes glaze over, revealing pure animalistic hatred
How is Jacob/Renesmee “beautiful”? It’s creepy!
sits down again
Phew.
All is right with the world again. Thought I heard some Twihard insulting The Stoker, but it was probably just me hallucinating, what with not taking my meds and shit.
Can you believe that?
I feel kinda faint now. I think i’m gonna have a smoke and listen to “Winter Wrap Up” now. It always cheers me up.
Thank you for making me giggle. A little while ago someone from down the hall came to my door and asked if I’d just had a bitchfight with the Twihard. I didn’t think we were that loud but apparently I got a little too heated when she started talking about how Twilight, rather than Harry Potter, got kids of this generation into reading good literature.
I got a little too heated when she started talking about how Twilight, rather than Harry Potter, got kids of this generation into reading good literature
I would have got heated about that, too.
high five
Thank you for making me giggle
Always a pleasure, milady. :)
Yeah, one does not insult The Stoker in front of me.
Sure, the guy only really wrote that one memorable novel. Sure, he didn’t do any research at all. Sure, you may not like his writing style or whatever. Sure, the story is riddled with cliches, what with being written back in the day when cliches weren’t cliches yet.
But he’s the father of modern vampire fiction. Carmilla and Varney came before Drac, but most people don’t even know they existed.
Without Drac, we’d have no Blade, no Angel, no Buffy, no Vampire diaries, no Lost boys, no Fright Night, no Near Dark, no Dusk till Dawn, no Castlevania, no Orlok, no Count von Count, and no Addams Family (no seriously, think about it).
That is all.
I would have got heated about that, too.
Me too. I would have got heated about the whole thing actually. If someone wants to argue rationally and politely about something, okay, but she sounded both obsessed and mean, so yeah, go you.
WAT. I don’t even like vampires in general all that much, and I would’ve flipped out as soon as she said she didn’t like Dracula. It’s one thing to not be particularly fond of Dracula. I would even be OK with someone personally liking Twilight more than Dracula, if that was their preference. But to say that Twilight was better than Dracula… gnashes teeth
I’ll leave this here.
Thanks for the deposit! We’ll take care of it.
Ahaha, that’s great, Armourer. It’s kinda true.
runs away quickly and hides before the Trekkers/Trekkies come kill me I swear I like the show too!
^this girl on fb did.
Her status raved about the hotness of one Taylor Lautner.
When I was done vomiting, i decided to hold back the bitchiness and not comment on it at all.
But-but why not? That’s how they’ll win! We have to fight them! We must!
^If I start bitching and ranting, I might not stop.
That’s why not.
Ah
On my way to Breaking Dawn. Wish me luck!
Aro murders his secretary because she made a typo.
I found that kind of hilarious. I don’t know why.
Guys. GUYS.
Where- where are my lulz? WHERE ARE MY SPARKLY LULZ?
Just…gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It wasn’t even bad enough to be funny! It was painfully mediocre at best! Which, unfortunately, means at worst. I mean… really? Just… gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I’ll write a review tomorrow, for now let me sulk about the lack of funny. Except for Charlie. Charlie is still awesome. And Seth is adorable.
D’aww. Sorry.
That reminds me- I’m pretty sure they forgot to make Edward sparkle. He’s IN CLEAR, BROAD DAYLIGHT, OFF THE COAST OF BRAZIL, AND NO SPARKLE.
Facepalm
Canon errors too?! How awful. No lulz, no other lulz, not-lulz… this movie is pretty much anti-lulz.
I’m actually sitting in the theatre right now waiting for it to start. I’ll be writing an article with my thoughts when it’s finished.
Oh, hey, would you be up for chatting about it on Skype later? I need to vent, and I’m willing to bet you will too.
WHERE ARE MY SPARKLY LULZ?
If it’s not funny, what’s the point?
Just got home, Willow….and am on Skype. Let’s get this venting in immediately.
I can’t wait for a nice long review on the main site. And at least one Kitty drawing.
Oh, poor Willow. I was hoping it would at least be awful enough to laugh hysterically at.
So, uh, what about the birthing scene?
^^Read Rorschach’s review on the main site.
Okay.
Will do.
He mirrored my thoughts exactly. Glad I’m not the only one who got cold shivers.
The Bum Reviews of this (I actually don’t know who that’s associated with, Nostalgia Critic methinks) was hilarious at that part.
“It’s all like EEEEHHH and AAAHHH and GREAAEAHHH and there’s these biting noises and EEEEEEEAAAARRREEGHHH”
Uh… Inkblot? The guy who plays the Bum IS the Nostalgia Critic.
Anyway, my review is up on my blog. I think it’s shorter than Rorshach’s. Anyway, comment away there, guys. I’m also uploading an audio review. It’ll be on Youtube shortly.
Riiighhht. :B
This is, of course, quite a bit funnier if you know what Counterstrike is. It’s a multiplayer game in which terrorists and counter-terrorists do stuff because.
I laughed.
OH TERRORIST YOU KNOW OUR LOVE IS FORBIDDEN
I DON’T CARE SAS MEMBER. GSG9 CAN’T STOP US FOREVER
Now we shall Fire the Unstoppable Nuclear… Kettle?
OH TERRORIST YOU KNOW OUR LOVE IS FORBIDDEN
Ah, forbidden love. I like the idea of Renee/Edward for forbidden love.
RENEE/EDWARD
The REAL reason behind Renee’s “Bella, your relationship with your boyfriend is way too serious” bullshit.
That is hilarious.
@Sen: Come on, we all know that Edward’s secretly Carlisle’s gay lover. That’s why he got vamp’d way back when – Carlisle was in love with him. It’s so obvious.
I am not paying to watch it in the cinema. I was going to, but Hogswatch is coming up, and I’m partially broke after buying stuff for my Secret Santa. I also have books to buy and a lack of chocolate in my room.
The point being, Twilight is somehow to blame for my grumpy mood.
@Apep: I smell love triangle
Saw this today and had to share it. Lol, quite true.
APPROVAL.
That love story made me genuinely cry. Almost every time I see Up.
@ Fell_Blade: ‘tis quite true. Quite true indeed. XD
That love story made me genuinely cry. Almost every time I see Up.
Same here.
That picture is great.
Up made me so sad. That image is amazing and so so true.
Those first 10 minutes were the only part worth watching, in my opinion.
Well, I’ll see it, probably, just because I can watch movies free. My brother and I decided that, as it’s showing New Year’s weekend, at least starting on such a low note means there’s nowhere to go but up.
Also, Up is beautiful.
I love how, in Up, young Carl Fredrickson never said a word, but in just a few minutes you already understood so much about his character and sympathized with him.
at least starting on such a low note means there’s nowhere to go but up.
I know it isn’t quite what you meant… I thought the first 10 minutes were the great, but it just spiraled down from there.
headdesk
Clearly I shouldn’t post unless I’m actually paying attention. Thus ends your public service announcement of today.
I did love the whole movie though. It was silly, but I rather thought it worked in a sort-of magical realism way.
I think we’ve had a discussion about Up before, but Puppet, I find your lack of love for Up disturbing.
Now that you mention it, Willow, I do seem to remember…
Speaking of Twilight, though, has anyone been reading Das Mervin recently? They’ve been going over ersatz scholarly, pro-Twilight articles there, and some of what they think is good is rather horrifying.
I think we’ve had a discussion about Up before, but Puppet, I find your lack of love for Up disturbing.
Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of it either. I guess I just wasn’t feeling the magic.
Up is not my favorite Pixar movie, and I don’t think it was the best movie ever, but I thought it was really charming in a way that kid’s movies just aren’t nowadays.
Up was pretty charming. I liked that about it. And the first ten minutes… they were particularly so. Very sweet and charming and totally made me sob my eyes out.
ersatz scholarly, pro-Twilight articles
Never seen those on her sporking plaza before.
Where are they?
In Up ,as soon as they reached Paradise Falls or whatever place it is that they land in at first, I lost all interest. The only two things that really stand out from that movie are the first fifteen minutes of it, and the very end where Fredrickson arrives, in place of the little boy’s dad, to award him the badge. So sweet.
Up wasn’t the ultimately awesome movie or anything, but I just like how that pic points out that it did a much better job than Twilight conveying that these two people were actually in love in just a fraction of the time.
Personally, Up is my favourite Pixar movie. The montage is the best part, but I love the whole movie.
bq Never seen those on her sporking plaza before.
Well, the most recent one is titled: Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance conventions reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” Series. and seems to be in at least three parts, and we haven’t even gotten to the really bad stuff yet.
And The Harsh Bigotry of Twilight-Haters (which never actually gets to the ‘bigotry’ of Twilight haters.)
They also covered Adornetto’s article (author of Halo, which is bad) Why Teenage Boys Suck More Than Vampires
THAT’S PIXAR DAMMIT
NOT DISNEY. DISNEY BLOWS.
That bothers me when people do that.
I liked Up meself, just because of how my personality is. An Exploration Age-reminiscent adventure in South America with talking dogs? I’ll sit through the entire thing, eyes glued to the screen.
Also, Das Mervin is excellent as usual.
Pixar is owned by Disney though…
But I like to keep them separate in my mind for sentimental reasons. :D
Like the response when EA bought Maxis? ;)
Maxis, Westwood Studios, Ensemble Studios, Bioware…
Would this make it better or worse?
snorts
I… think I’m more disturbed than by the sex toys.
Saw the same thing in Best Buy and my brain broke a moment. I mean… SPARKLY hair care products? And why has it taken 4 movies for them to make these? (seems so obvious)
Or… were these around for the other movies? Did I repress the memories?
I love how it’s called the Twilight Sparkle collection.
They are totally ripping off MLP now.
If Famous Writers Had Written Twilight
Oh, if only.
Someone BRILLIANT in the comments did a Dr. Seuss version. I did NOT WRITE THIS.
Twilight, by Dr. Seuss
Jake likes a girl. Her name is Bella.
Bella likes a different fella.
See this vamp? This is Ed.
Ed is pale. Ed is dead.
Ed saved Bella from a van.
Ed must be a special man.
Ed won’t kill boys. He won’t kill girls.
Ed gets fed on deer and squirrels.
This is James. He’s a tracker.
He’s a sort of vamp attacker.
James hunts Bella for a thrill.
Will Ed kill him? Yes, he will.
But James gave her a little bite.
Will she be a vamp? She might!
Edward fixes Bella’s cut.
She won’t be a vampire.
But…
She becomes one. Read some more.
She’s a vampire in book 4.
Edward and Jacob defy society’s expectations up in the mountains.
Snicker.
I love the Dr. Seuss comment.
Ed won’t kill boys. He won’t kill girls.
Ed gets fed on deer and squirrels.
That doesn’t rhyme. >:(
Still hilarious, though.
Edward tells Bella that he intends to stop saving her life, unless she starts paying him in gold bullion. Hatefucking ensues, then Jacob spouts objectivist philosophy for the next 100 pages.
LOL
I hate Ayn Rand.
That one made me laugh as well.
An internet for the writer of those. I didn’t even recognize half of those names, and I still laughed.
Haha, Dr Seuss is the man!
While the poem is clever… it does seem a little off rhythmically. I stumbled over some of the wording as each couplet was rhythmically sound, but sometimes the rhythm switched when moving to the next couplet.
As to Ayn Rand, I think Christopher Hitchens said it best (and I strongly disagree with that man):
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness
among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but
some things require no further reinforcement.
^ That’s a hilarious quote.
Ed won’t kill boys. He won’t kill girls. Ed gets fed on deer and squirrels.
That doesn’t rhyme. >:(
It does if you’re from the South. ;-D
Nate’s actually right about that. I just said it out loud and with my accent it rhymes… is that a bad thing? =0
NEVAR!
[southern brohoof for FellBlade]
(drat, I could have sworn there was a card for that name but apparently all I could find was: http://lotrtcgdb.com/pages/LOTR01209.html, http://lotrtcgdb.com/pages/LOTR01221.html, http://lotrtcgdb.com/pages/LOTR01216.html)
Yeah, it rhymes in the Midwest, too.
I’m pretty sure I have a vanilla American accent, and girls and squirrels still nearly rhymes (the E in squirrels is just barely there, and IMO things like that still count as a rhyme).
I’m pretty sure I have a vanilla American accent, and girls and squirrels still nearly rhymes (the E in squirrels is just barely there, and IMO things like that still count as a rhyme).
Haha, same here. I like “vanilla American accent”. I think that’s what I have.
.... What’s the difference between “American accent” and “vanilla American accent”? Does the accent smell like vanilla? :P
Well, you have the New Yoik accent, and the Bawstun accent, and the Southern drawl, and the Midwestern drawl…
So the vanilla American accent is mainly distinguished by not being any of those. There’s several areas of the country, like the lower Northeast, the upper Northwest, some of the Southwest, that all have the same non-accented speech patterns, and that’s the basic one, I guess.
I think it’s what foreigners would think of when thinking of a generic American accent. I’ve noticed that most TV/movie characters have this unless their accent or region is an important point. Unless I’m also confused about what a vanilla accent would be.
the Bawstun accent
Pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd.
I have a shirt that says that, and I swear people have mistaken it for Hebrew.
Yeah, I believe it’s called General American and most newscasters have it. I think Stephen Colbert trained to get rid of his Georgian accent to get what you hear today. It’s the accent I hear when I hear no accent. And in my mind its what I speak (west coast Canadian)... except those darn aboots. Of course what WE hear is abowt, but anyways.
And in my mind its what I speak (west coast Canadian)... except those darn aboots. Of course what WE hear is abowt, but anyways.
Eh? I have no idea what you’re talking aboot, eh.
According to me I am the only person in the world who has a “normal” accent. True story.
It’s the transition from the ‘ow’ sound to the ‘t’. There’s a little tiny ‘oo’ sound before the ‘t’. But to us, the dominant sound is the ‘ow’. We don’t hear the ‘oo’ sound unless we really think about it and know what to listen for. To Americans apparently all they hear is the ‘oo’ sound.
General American just sounds like default/ non-accented English to me.
I confess, though, even though my accent is generally unremarkable, sometimes I do say y’all.