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Post by Lady Phoenix on Feb 2, 2011 22:17:03 GMT -8
I would have told them that if they have to to fangasm, be massive cunts, and shove Twishit down the throats of people clearly not interested; then they could use that time to actually study and actually pass their classes instead of being in a deadbeat job.
You can always say "At least I'll be a catlady that has a well paying job since I'm trying to study"
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Post by Tim Willard on Feb 4, 2011 5:04:31 GMT -8
I just tell them: "No thanks, I like to read grownup books." and walk away.
The one Twihard in my class hates me with an unholy passion, but I think she's funny.
She tried the whole "You just haven't been in love!" crap on me, and I answered that I've been married 18 years, and know more about love than she does, Bella does, and Stephanie Meyer does, all put together and wrapped in a bow.
She asked me what the sweetest thing I ever did for my wife was, stating (before I could even answer), that Edward wrote Bella a song! (ooh, impressive) The expression on her face when I told her: "I never did a song, I just based two characters off of her in books, wrote our children over a dozen children's books, let her sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays while I took care of the kids, drove 2000 miles to meet her at the hospital when she got wounded, and I give her a little copper tree that I make with my own hands every anniversary. What has your boyfriend ever done for you?"
She cursed at me and stomped away. <shrug> What the fuck did she expect? After 18 years, of course I've done romantic things for her.
I love her.
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Post by Kookie on Feb 5, 2011 8:09:01 GMT -8
I saw a bumper sticker that said "Watch out--I drive like a Cullen"
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Post by J.Day on Feb 6, 2011 19:12:52 GMT -8
^ Did the bumper sticker happen to look like this? I pity the vehicle that must endure having that thing stuck to it.
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Post by Lady Phoenix on Feb 6, 2011 20:42:56 GMT -8
I just tell them: "No thanks, I like to read grownup books." and walk away.
The one Twihard in my class hates me with an unholy passion, but I think she's funny.
She tried the whole "You just haven't been in love!" crap on me, and I answered that I've been married 18 years, and know more about love than she does, Bella does, and Stephanie Meyer does, all put together and wrapped in a bow.
She asked me what the sweetest thing I ever did for my wife was, stating (before I could even answer), that Edward wrote Bella a song! (ooh, impressive) The expression on her face when I told her: "I never did a song, I just based two characters off of her in books, wrote our children over a dozen children's books, let her sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays while I took care of the kids, drove 2000 miles to meet her at the hospital when she got wounded, and I give her a little copper tree that I make with my own hands every anniversary. What has your boyfriend ever done for you?"
She cursed at me and stomped away. <shrug> What the fuck did she expect? After 18 years, of course I've done romantic things for her.
I love her. PWNAGE!!!
I'm sorry, but yeah, that was EPIC.
Seriously, I hate the Twitard's excuse about someone's love life. I mean, judging a person's REAL LIFE to a story that is MEANT to be wish fulfillment is NEVER a good idea -- especially because those wish fulfilment stories are targeted to people . . . WHO DON'T HAVE IT.
Why do you think Justin Bieber is so damn popular to tweens? It's because most of them don't have a boyfriend and all they see is a kid their age singing "I love you" over and over.
I can say my guy friend that I really like is more romantic than dward, my guy actually listened to what I say when I told him I wasn't ready to date and wanted to wait on it. He listened to myrequests, something a REAL lover does.
Oh, and he got me Sengoku Basara after he noticed how I kept watching everyone play it and me having an interest in it
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Post by limelightqueen on Feb 10, 2011 18:05:38 GMT -8
I just tell them: "No thanks, I like to read grownup books." and walk away.
The one Twihard in my class hates me with an unholy passion, but I think she's funny.
She tried the whole "You just haven't been in love!" crap on me, and I answered that I've been married 18 years, and know more about love than she does, Bella does, and Stephanie Meyer does, all put together and wrapped in a bow.
She asked me what the sweetest thing I ever did for my wife was, stating (before I could even answer), that Edward wrote Bella a song! (ooh, impressive) The expression on her face when I told her: "I never did a song, I just based two characters off of her in books, wrote our children over a dozen children's books, let her sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays while I took care of the kids, drove 2000 miles to meet her at the hospital when she got wounded, and I give her a little copper tree that I make with my own hands every anniversary. What has your boyfriend ever done for you?"
She cursed at me and stomped away. <shrug> What the fuck did she expect? After 18 years, of course I've done romantic things for her.
I love her. Please don't take this the wrong way but Tim, I'm a little in love with you right now. Also, after 18 years you've stuck by your wife even when it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, which is more than Bella and Edward will ever be able to say.
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Post by vampirekites on Feb 10, 2011 18:21:54 GMT -8
Why exalt Edward and Bella's "love" in the first place? It's all a convenience device to drive the story along. Out of the blue they love each other, no question? If her blood didn't smell so good and he could read her mind, he wouldn't give her the time of day. He even said in MS that once he figured out her thoughts, and confirmed they were just as boring as everyone else's, he'd ignore her too. Hell, he didn't even think she was all that spectacular looking, but then all of a sudden she's this beautiful goddess to him? What the fuck ever.
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Post by J.Day on Feb 11, 2011 9:29:42 GMT -8
Meg Cabot posted a link on her Facebook site regarding a crime report that involved rabid Twilight fan teenagers biting each other. The 15-year-old girl is serving some time in jail for filing a false police report. OH, THE STUPIDITY.
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Post by limelightqueen on Feb 11, 2011 12:51:52 GMT -8
^Um, does anyone else think the second story is a fake one too? It sounds more like the girl's boyfriend beat the crap out of her.
@ Apocalypse Pony, I think we're supposed to feel at that Midnight Sun quote that Edward is being ridiculous, because OF COURSE Bella's mind isn't boring or like anyone else's!
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Post by paperbagprincess on Feb 11, 2011 14:38:09 GMT -8
People in AP English making legit reference to Twatlight in their presentations. UGHHHH!!!!!!!! You are in AP ENGLISH, that stuff should be like water & the Witch of the West: BAD IDEA.
I can't take it, I really can't.
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Post by makoeyes on Feb 15, 2011 21:49:41 GMT -8
Sorry if anyone's already posted this already on here, but seven pages is a LOT of mini-rants to sift through.
I think the real reason why Edward left in New Moon was simply for the lulz. I remember how in an interview SMeyer said that the reason why Edward left is because "that's what he wanted to do, and I couldn't convince him otherwise" (paraphrased, of course). So SMeyer doesn't have a real reason as to why he left. He's an abusive, sociopathic monster. It just the first six months (something like that) of knowing Bella, he'd already managed to mind-fuck her and manipulate her to the extent that when he does leave, she turns into a "zombie." I think that instead of leaving to protect her (which is one hell of a half-assed excuse to begin with), it was actually because he wanted to see just how strong his influence over her was, and keep tabs on her for a while. Then when she turned out to be a completely dependent doormat, he decided to prolong the moment because it was amusing to him. Then, he kind of got bored and didn't really pay much attention, but eventually when he realized that she was becoming really close to Jacob, that's whenever he did the fake suicide attempt to win her back and re-establish his hold over her. There's even a time in NM when Bella sees a "flash of red," which most of the readers assumed to Victoria, but this doesn't make sense because if it had been Victoria, she should've just gotten rid of her immediately (I know this is Meyerland and therefore people tend not to think logically, but bare with me). I think the "flash of red" was actually Edward, because he has a reddish hair. All of this is probably technically wrong though, as SMeyer certainly didn't have this in mind when writing. But it does add some depth to the story, even if it's not canon.
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Post by vampirekites on Feb 18, 2011 1:59:26 GMT -8
I think you have to make up different reasons why things happen the way they do, cause the actual reasons are too stupid to comprehend.
On another point, I was reading through Reasoning with Vampires tumblr, and I forgot how many times Bella makes it a point to say how ugly or plain she is compared to the Cullens. Smeyer really wanted to make sure we all know how incredibly lucky Bella is to snag a vampire boyfriend who is so ridiculously god-like in appearance. The amount of eye rolling I did reading those part reminded me of why I stopped reading halfway through Eclipse. It's pounded into our heads that Bella is plain, giving us more reason to accept it when she finally becomes a vampire. It's all about looks and there is ZERO evidence of anyone acting decent or nice, or at least as "selfless" as these characters are supposed to be. The vanity is just dripping off of the pages.
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Post by limelightqueen on Feb 18, 2011 6:54:05 GMT -8
^The worst part is that the whole point of Bella is that she's every girl, a blank slate so we can pretend we're her. What does Meyer think of teenage girls? I was never that self loathing and in high school I was harassed and told otherwise almost every single day for a year and a half.
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Post by vampirekites on Feb 18, 2011 13:44:05 GMT -8
It's a lazy attempt at making Bella "humble", and that she wins Edward's heart by being smart. She's Beautiful All Along in Edward's eyes, and her fairytale life comes true. It's really pandering to those girls who also have image and self-esteem problems, and coddling their egos into deluding them that they too can get the gorgeous, if not vampiric, boyfriend. Of course, some of those girls are so messed up that they distance actual guys away because of their dumb ass behavior. They'll over have their fantasies to go on.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2011 13:20:28 GMT -8
I understand why Bella is in love with Edward: because he is a "gorgeous and perfect." Pretty shallow reason to be in love with someone, but that's not the point.
Why is Edward in love with Bella? She says she is plain-looking, so I guess not physically. She's probably the most boring character in the world too, with no personality and apparently no hobbies but reading books everyone has read in high school. So she doesn't exactly have a personality for Edward to be attracted to. They don't seem to have any common interests other than these books that are mentioned. And yet every conversation the two have is about how "irrevocably in love" they are.
So does Edward really only love Bella because she smells good?
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Post by limelightqueen on Mar 22, 2011 10:45:58 GMT -8
^That and she intrigues him because he can't read her mind. If he could he'd know she's even more boring and shallow than the rest of the human race.
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Post by vampirekites on Mar 22, 2011 19:35:47 GMT -8
Maybe misery loves company in regards to Edward loving Bella. Both have elitist tendencies, are boring, snobby jerks and pretty much have the same vitriol for humanity. I guess in essence they are perfect for each other.
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Post by Is A Bell A Swan? on Mar 25, 2011 17:32:32 GMT -8
Really annoying when trying to argue with a Twitard (imprinting IS just to pass on genes) then then you prove them right "you secretly love Twilight, how else do you know so much about it"
/Facepalm
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Post by vampirekites on Mar 25, 2011 19:59:53 GMT -8
^just say right back to that person "no, it's not that I'm a secret fan. It's just that you've got to know your enemy more than you know yourself". How could you possibly be able to rebuttal anything if you don't know the source material? Some people are just dense.
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Post by Blue Suede Shoes on Mar 25, 2011 22:21:23 GMT -8
My very persistent Twihard friend who can't accept that I don't like Twilight even though I love the Harry Potter series (I've ranted about this before) sent me a link to a "Which Twilight character are you?" quiz. Out of a combination of morbid curiosity and insomnia, I took it. I was fairly sure it would say I was Leah. No such luck, though. I got CARLISLE! By a wide margin. I hate Carlisle! I don't think I'm anything like him at all! He's my least favourite of all! I don't want to be a narcissistic jackass who pretends to have compassion but actually gets off on the power of deciding who lives and who dies. Ugh! Stupid test!
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Post by PiedPiperPluto on Mar 27, 2011 7:47:50 GMT -8
I just tell them: "No thanks, I like to read grownup books." and walk away.
The one Twihard in my class hates me with an unholy passion, but I think she's funny.
She tried the whole "You just haven't been in love!" crap on me, and I answered that I've been married 18 years, and know more about love than she does, Bella does, and Stephanie Meyer does, all put together and wrapped in a bow.
She asked me what the sweetest thing I ever did for my wife was, stating (before I could even answer), that Edward wrote Bella a song! (ooh, impressive) The expression on her face when I told her: "I never did a song, I just based two characters off of her in books, wrote our children over a dozen children's books, let her sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays while I took care of the kids, drove 2000 miles to meet her at the hospital when she got wounded, and I give her a little copper tree that I make with my own hands every anniversary. What has your boyfriend ever done for you?"
She cursed at me and stomped away. <shrug> What the fuck did she expect? After 18 years, of course I've done romantic things for her.
I love her. I d'awwwed a little bit. @thread: It really kind of annoys me how everything has to make a Twilight joke these days.
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Post by WolfBloodRei on Mar 27, 2011 21:35:15 GMT -8
My very persistent Twihard friend who can't accept that I don't like Twilight even though I love the Harry Potter series (I've ranted about this before) sent me a link to a "Which Twilight character are you?" quiz. Out of a combination of morbid curiosity and insomnia, I took it. I was fairly sure it would say I was Leah. No such luck, though. I got CARLISLE! By a wide margin. I hate Carlisle! I don't think I'm anything like him at all! He's my least favourite of all! I don't want to be a narcissistic jackass who pretends to have compassion but actually gets off on the power of deciding who lives and who dies. Ugh! Stupid test!
I took a few of those tests before, back when I was a fan. I always got Alice or Rosalie. Thinking back on it now, I'm kind of happy for the Rosalie result. To me she was the only well-rounded character whose not a Bella ass-kisser. Of course, Breaking Fail killed her. =/
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Post by Blue Suede Shoes on Mar 27, 2011 22:57:15 GMT -8
I took a few of those tests before, back when I was a fan. I always got Alice or Rosalie. Thinking back on it now, I'm kind of happy for the Rosalie result. To me she was the only well-rounded character whose not a Bella ass-kisser. Of course, Breaking Fail killed her. =/ I liked Rosalie. A different one of my friends made me feel better about my stupid Carlisle result. (Actually what I said was that I got "the f*cking idiot" but he knew who I meant.) He reminded me that the light the Twihards see Carlisle in is not based on any kind of sanity and morality, so it probably was intended to indicate compassion and altruism, and I should be flattered. I still don't feel flattered, but I don't feel quite as insulted.
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Post by WolfBloodRei on Mar 28, 2011 13:13:14 GMT -8
I took a few of those tests before, back when I was a fan. I always got Alice or Rosalie. Thinking back on it now, I'm kind of happy for the Rosalie result. To me she was the only well-rounded character whose not a Bella ass-kisser. Of course, Breaking Fail killed her. =/ I liked Rosalie. A different one of my friends made me feel better about my stupid Carlisle result. (Actually what I said was that I got "the f*cking idiot" but he knew who I meant.) He reminded me that the light the Twihards see Carlisle in is not based on any kind of sanity and morality, so it probably was intended to indicate compassion and altruism, and I should be flattered. I still don't feel flattered, but I don't feel quite as insulted.
Yeah, that result does suck, considering that Carlisle is actually not far from being a villain himself, if he isn't already one. Still, Carlisle is a hell of a lot better than Bella-Sue and Ewdard-Stu at least? XD
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Post by reniefuwa on Mar 28, 2011 15:46:09 GMT -8
Really annoying when trying to argue with a Twitard (imprinting IS just to pass on genes) then then you prove them right "you secretly love Twilight, how else do you know so much about it" /Facepalm That goes right along with the twitard mobius strip: "How can you know you don't like it if you haven't read it?" "Well, if you don't like it, don't read it!"
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Post by Blue Suede Shoes on Mar 29, 2011 0:19:12 GMT -8
Yeah, that result does suck, considering that Carlisle is actually not far from being a villain himself, if he isn't already one. Still, Carlisle is a hell of a lot better than Bella-Sue and Ewdard-Stu at least? XD For me? Honestly? No. I would rather be vapid or ridiculous or crazy than indifferent and lacking in real compassion. Carlisle would be the worst possible result for me because he's so... weak and self-serving. He's the total opposite of everything I believe in when you look at his actions rather than Meyer's idolizing of him. So of course I would get that as my result. Oh well. It's a stupid test, anyway, and I shouldn't let it bother me.
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Post by limelightqueen on Mar 29, 2011 8:14:24 GMT -8
I'd love the link to it, just to see what Twihards think of me.
And I hate Carlisle too. The obvious example is Breaking Dawn where he's like "Fifteen vamps craving human blood? Well the many pints of it I keep in the fridge for the demon spawn just won't do. Here, take my Porsche. Because it's not murder if it's a stranger and you can't be implicated for their death!"
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Post by vampirekites on Mar 29, 2011 8:22:16 GMT -8
Yeah, I think there was a big discussion on here about Carlisle's supposed humanitarianism. Mostly it was how he's actually doing the opposite for humans, by letting a bunch of vampires (including one who is new to human free blood) go to school with a bunch of accident prone teenagers. Not to mention how he seems unconcerned for people who aren't in his vicinity.
Does anyone else notice how it seems so convenient that all of the Cullen's are the super best out of anyone who ever existed? Someone doesn't know the power of humility.
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Post by limelightqueen on Mar 29, 2011 8:30:43 GMT -8
Wish fulfillment at it's finest worst
Oh, for the "you've never been in love!" response, I have my standard answer: "Yes actually, I have. And it is because I am in love with a man who respects me and cares about me not for superficial reasons but because he finds me interesting, funny and sweet, that I can recognize Edward and Bella's relationship as a horrible, manipulative, shallow obsession mixed with with infatuation."
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Post by Blue Suede Shoes on Mar 29, 2011 10:27:56 GMT -8
I'd love the link to it, just to see what Twihards think of me. I didn't save the link, but if you do an internet search for "Which Twilight character are you?" you can find loads of them that are equivalent, if not that exact test. I actually started the Carlisle thread here because I dislike him so much. Which makes this all the more irritating. Some of the questions on the test were transparent enough that I knew what result I was potentially setting myself up for, but I stupidly decided to be honest. Yeah, for real. Plus stealing from a bloodbank is not exactly a victimless crime either. People need that blood to survive! At least where I live they seem to scramble constantly to keep the supplies high enough even without thieving vampires - they seriously act like my O Neg is liquid gold because the need is so great. I can't imagine the people at the bloodbank saying, "Oh yeah, a few pints are no big deal, go ahead!" Carlisle's hands may not literally get dirty, but he is very likely murdering people all the same.
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