Yeah, with some glitter and a good old delinquent’s leather jacket, emanating some romantic dribble while hanging out on treetops, cause, u know, th4tz ze sw33t!
Twilight isn’t queer. It’s a way to sell Mormon ideology to vaguely Gothish teenage girls. No self-respecting queer would touch that mess with a twelve inch pole
Maybe (maybe!) she didn’t, but I just had a lightbulb moment wherein I now understand why the only people I know who seem intimately familiar with the books are Mormon women.
“Wise Cracker
December 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Is it bad form to reuse parts of your Harry Potter costume when you dress up to wait for the midnight showing of Twilight?”
It is wrong to go out of your way or dress up for Harry Potter or Twilight.
A friend of mine aptly pointed out that the worst thing about Twilight is the way it idealizes a horrible relationship. One minute Bella and Eddie are in love, the next they’re forcing themselves apart, clinging to the point that they can’t function without each other. It resembles not so much twue wuv as it does sickly co-dependance. Maybe this is what Miss Meyer is going for, but I don’t think most of her readers understand that this is an incredibly unhealthy romance.
Two good vampire stories for people who hated Twilight: “Let the right one in” (or just possibly the english language remake), and Fledgeling by Octavia Butler.
Liz: not necessarily! look at Buffy! She got with TWO vampires! one of which lost his soul and tried to kill her and the other she had a kinda messed up relationship with anyway…..so I guess you’re right…
December 11, 2008
Maybe he should have put a jacket on.
December 11, 2008
Or some glitter.
December 11, 2008
Yeah, with some glitter and a good old delinquent’s leather jacket, emanating some romantic dribble while hanging out on treetops, cause, u know, th4tz ze sw33t!
December 11, 2008
Once again, the cast of “Cat & Girl” breaks my heart whilst causing me to laugh at my own dire predicament of life. Nice!
December 11, 2008
Is it bad form to reuse parts of your Harry Potter costume when you dress up to wait for the midnight showing of Twilight?
December 11, 2008
I am a sucker for Vampire! okay… that was lame, but I really do like vampires ;)
December 16, 2008
Ain’t all vampires old? Because they wouldn’t die for centuries.
December 16, 2008
I like vampires too. But I’m not too fond of this Twilight craze. A friend of mine thinks any guy that likes it is a queer. Is this true?
December 17, 2008
An easy equation. Your friend thinks anyone who likes X = queer means anyone who likes X = a good person to talk to and spend time with.
December 18, 2008
Twilight isn’t queer. It’s a way to sell Mormon ideology to vaguely Gothish teenage girls. No self-respecting queer would touch that mess with a twelve inch pole
December 30, 2008
That’s not a very long pole. Are you sure it isn’t a RULER they wouldn’t touch it with?
Also, I don’t think Stephanie Meyer had mormon ideology in mind while writing vampire/romance books.
January 8, 2009
Maybe (maybe!) she didn’t, but I just had a lightbulb moment wherein I now understand why the only people I know who seem intimately familiar with the books are Mormon women.
January 10, 2009
Man, so feeling this way about all the shoegazer bands coming back and so on…
January 11, 2009
Mormon? what, is the lead polygamous or something?
February 9, 2009
“Wise Cracker
December 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Is it bad form to reuse parts of your Harry Potter costume when you dress up to wait for the midnight showing of Twilight?”
It is wrong to go out of your way or dress up for Harry Potter or Twilight.
February 19, 2009
Would I gain street cred if I dressed up for the premiere of “Mall Cop” at the dollar theater?
April 21, 2009
Ever notice how great books like oh I don’t know Twilight make terrible movies that appeal only to incredibly stereotypical teenagers?
July 2, 2009
the guy who plays edward cullen is hot, though
August 2, 2009
michael… the 90’s is the new 80s
however there hasn’t been any decent new shogaze music, M83 is refreshing (wouldn’t classify as s-gaze) but everything else has been mediocre
it was nice however to see MBV play
September 21, 2009
How is Twilight a great book?!
September 29, 2009
I rephrase: books that people like.
October 16, 2009
A friend of mine aptly pointed out that the worst thing about Twilight is the way it idealizes a horrible relationship. One minute Bella and Eddie are in love, the next they’re forcing themselves apart, clinging to the point that they can’t function without each other. It resembles not so much twue wuv as it does sickly co-dependance. Maybe this is what Miss Meyer is going for, but I don’t think most of her readers understand that this is an incredibly unhealthy romance.
October 16, 2009
Also, he’s not even a vampire so much as a magical supermodel with angst.
January 3, 2010
Wow. I didn’t get this comic the first time around because I didn’t know what Twilight was.
Now I feel kind of sad that I ever learnt about it at all.
July 5, 2010
True Blood (another new vampire thing) & most new vampire-orientated books I’ve seen seem to feature unhealthy relationships (of one form or another).
We’ll just have to face it: it is a Bad Idea for humans to get with vampires.
February 10, 2011
Two good vampire stories for people who hated Twilight: “Let the right one in” (or just possibly the english language remake), and Fledgeling by Octavia Butler.
November 10, 2011
Liz: not necessarily! look at Buffy! She got with TWO vampires! one of which lost his soul and tried to kill her and the other she had a kinda messed up relationship with anyway…..so I guess you’re right…
June 20, 2013
It’s really the pot belly that did him in. you’re never taken seriously if you have to lean that far forward to bite a neck.