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Post by nuxi on Mar 29, 2011 13:47:49 GMT -8
I think in the show Moonlight, the vampire got blood from a friend who worked at the Morgue so I don't think it could have been used for transfusions anyway. It's been a while though, so I might be remembering that wrong.
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Post by TrippedUp on Mar 29, 2011 14:05:01 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.
This put a smile on my face. I was pretty close to not believing you because I don't think I've ever seen a stable marriage before in my life. Your wife and kids are so damn lucky
Also... Edward Cullen came AFTER Edward Elric. My friend got bitched at in a store because she liked the "sloppy seconds" instead of the "true Eddy."
WHUT.
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Post by limelightqueen on Mar 30, 2011 10:10:19 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. Took a quiz, got Esme. Apparently I'm bland and purposeless True, but it's still less bad than actually murdering people. I just hope they don't take the O neg and instead take a more common one. I don't get why they let Nessie have human blood. Why can't she drink animal blood like the rest of them? I bet Jasper hates that little brat.
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Post by Blue Suede Shoes on Mar 30, 2011 10:52:25 GMT -8
Took a quiz, got Esme. Apparently I'm bland and purposeless Hahaha, congrats! It isn't as bad, I agree. I think I just see this from the opposite end because I get frantic phonecalls whenever my area has a blood shortage. (Though I've never quite figured out what they expect me to do about it. You can't donate more often than the legal limit even if you offer to sign a release. I've tried that and no dice.) Hearing that desperation makes Meyer's flippant comments about taking from bloodbanks kind of painful. The deal with O Neg is not that we're particularly rare - it's not an uncommon blood type - but that we're universal donors. So if someone comes in and needs a transfusion urgently, they don't have to wait for a full type-match to be complete before giving them blood. Thus the bloodbank needs to have plenty of O Neg on hand. I agree the vampires should avoid it! Not so much because of rarity, though. Because it tastes better, and we must have only the best for our dear little hellspawn.
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Post by limelightqueen on Mar 30, 2011 11:57:48 GMT -8
I know how it is with O Neg, my sister and dad are both O Neg and they get e-mails of the same variety every couple of months. I'm B Positive and I still give blood semi-regularly.
I'm going to guess that Meyer has no clue how blood donation works. Just look to book 1 for proof. Aside from the MASSIVE legal issues concerning 1) a school allowing minors to give each other blood tests without asking for parental consent and 2) the teacher taking a student's hand a pricking them to draw blood without even asking Eric (was it Eric?) "Yo, it cool if I stick you with a needle and make you bleed?" Could you imagine the shit storm if Eric has hepatitis or was HIV positive?
But the one the factor that clearly shows Meyer hasn't a fucking clue what she's talking about is the assumption that a blood test done by a 17 year old is reliable enough that Red Cross will accept it as true. I wonder if they'd just take the 17 year old for their word if they said they were totally clean of all diseases and infections that are transferable by blood?
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Post by vampirekites on May 7, 2011 18:07:24 GMT -8
I was watching the making of Let Me In, and they were talking about the way Lindqvist made the vampire myth as a metaphor for adolescence. I'm thinking some of the people were taking jabs as Twilight because they are saying how this film doesn't "romanticize" vampires, and that they were taking more plausible ways of strength and speed "then some films did". I'm guessing they are talking about the super speed in Twilight.
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Post by TrippedUp on May 20, 2011 13:31:27 GMT -8
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Post by limelightqueen on May 20, 2011 14:26:11 GMT -8
Oh my god! I totally forgot about that parody! One of the first and best. Seriously, except for the last few lines it could have been written by Smeyer.
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Post by Lil' Raskol LobLaw on May 21, 2011 9:00:42 GMT -8
You know, I think I said before on this forum that I only hated Bella and Edward. After much consideration, I realized I really dislike a lot of the characters. Either they're nonexistent filler or there's something about them that really pisses you off, like Quil's baby-loving habits. Seriously, that's fucking creepy. The only characters that are actually decent are Rosalie and Leah, and they were portrayed as bitches for actually having independent thought. That's a load of shit.
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Post by Kookie on Jun 6, 2011 7:42:07 GMT -8
So, Eclipse won most of the MTV movie awards. But I don't take MTV awards seriously so...
Anyways, a lot of Twilight fans say that people shouldn't judge the books based off the movies, because the books are better. Maybe it's just me, but I like the movies more. At least we don't have to hear Bella's thoughts all the time. Plus we get to see Jackson Rathbone and a shirtless Taylor Lautner.
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Post by S-r-ex on Jun 6, 2011 8:03:23 GMT -8
Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet manages to call this joke of a wedding the most important this year, "forget William and Kate". UGH!!!
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Post by SoulOverSmile on Jun 28, 2011 4:03:20 GMT -8
Get the fuck away from Vivien Leigh, bitch.
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Post by limelightqueen on Jul 16, 2011 16:23:36 GMT -8
Vivien Leigh has more talent in her toenail clippings than Kristen Stewart has in her entire body. I'm a huge old movie fan so this makes me very angry. If anyone compares Rob to Cary Grant I think I would literally shit a brick.
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Post by vampirekites on Jul 16, 2011 17:30:44 GMT -8
Not only do they not look remotely like each other, Vivien Leigh was a terrific actress. Kstew wishes she had an 1/8 of talent that Vivien had. I hate when these fans really grasp at straws to give the false impression that she has anything worth giving to cinema. Same thing with comparing Rob to James Dean. He has no range, has zero charisma and is just a whiny prat.
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Post by Sassley on Jul 17, 2011 8:19:07 GMT -8
Took a quiz, got Esme. Apparently I'm bland and purposeless I took the quiz too, I got Alice. I'm some crazy twirling bish who sees the future but not really. Heh.
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Post by limelightqueen on Jul 17, 2011 12:24:20 GMT -8
Don't forget selfish to the extreme. One of her actions that pissed me off the most was when she kidnapped Edward in exchange for a car of the same make she stole in Italy (her committing grand theft auto is never discussed and is simply mentioned in a utterly blase way). Because she apparently has no money to buy the freaking car for herself.
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Post by Sad-Eyed Sinatra on Jul 21, 2011 21:28:50 GMT -8
Re-reading the first book out of boredom and SMeyer's use of ellipsis is just irritating me to no end. For instance, "If he was something... sinister". Sweet Jesus fuck, that just screams YA amateur hour.
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Post by limelightqueen on Jul 22, 2011 10:30:41 GMT -8
Was at Borders last night ( ) and I was looking for Libba Bray's excellent A Great and Terrible Beauty (I lost my copy). I could not find it within the Bs. So I went to the other side of the shelf and found that they had added a "Supernatural Young Adult" section that was as long as the actual young adult section. And 99% of the books were Twilight knock offs. Is there no creativity left among young adult authors?
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Post by vampirekites on Jul 22, 2011 22:47:26 GMT -8
saw this gem at Fuck Yeah GIFS:
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Post by vampirekites on Jul 23, 2011 13:29:53 GMT -8
More Twilight name dropping, courtesy of Fright Night. I saw the commercial for the movie, and in one line Evil Ed goes "this isn't a broody, lovesick Twilight vampire" or some shit. Ok, yes, this movie isn't like that movie. Can we just stop mentioning Twilight, however? Ripping on it just makes fans go "teehee, it's mentioned in this movie, yay! People are still talking about it!!". Let the franchise kill itself, stop giving it more attention that it deserves.
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Post by annaofcrazyland on Jul 25, 2011 4:59:28 GMT -8
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Post by limelightqueen on Jul 25, 2011 11:10:32 GMT -8
More Twilight name dropping, courtesy of Fright Night. I saw the commercial for the movie, and in one line Evil Ed goes "this isn't a broody, lovesick Twilight vampire" or some shit. Ok, yes, this movie isn't like that movie. Can we just stop mentioning Twilight, however? Ripping on it just makes fans go "teehee, it's mentioned in this movie, yay! People are still talking about it!!". Let the franchise kill itself, stop giving it more attention that it deserves. I like it when it is relevant. For instance: in season one of The Vampire Diaries Damon is sort of dating Caroline, who is at the time a shallow blonde Barbie. He is lying in her bed and reading one of the Twilight books and remarks "God, Edward is soooo whipped" and says that he misses Anne Rice because she was "so on it." When Caroline asks him why he doesn't sparkle he says that he lives in the real world where vampires burn in the sun. Since at the time many thought TVD was just "Twilight: The TV show" it was a good clarification. Or, you know, the Supernatural episode "Live Free or Twihard."
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Post by Tim Willard on Jul 25, 2011 17:39:16 GMT -8
I can't believe they're remaking the movie Fright Night.
Such a good movie.
Such a nice rack.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2011 22:56:29 GMT -8
Since this is a rant page , I am going to rant. About the plot. I know it has been done so many times, but here I go. The main issue is that their is no actually believable conflict. In book one it's obvious, as James comes in as an afterthought, and you know it's not going to change anything: it's the first book! If Bella gets turned so early, all the "I-know-I-am-going-to-vamp-her-out-but-let-me-stall-you-for-four-years" thing SMeyer has going on disappears. What progress is made in Twilight? She goes from meting Edward to dating Edward. What a waste of trees. Book Two is actually worse. Again, you know nothing is going to happen. Of course she saves Eddie, of course, she survives for no good reason (really Aro, just believe Alice and let them go? How did you ever become king?) and of course, she is back to square one, dating Eddie. Oh, werewolves? What do we know about them? They are friends with Jacob, they are supposed to fight vampires that have been around for three years, and like muffins. Wow. How I'm I supposed to believe they are of any importance? It was just a way to make Jacob supernatural enough for Smeyer to consider making him a rival. About that, who actually thought he had a chance? I didn't. Although I really didn't care about the "love triangle" ( wich was the basis of book three), and I spent my time hopping that one of them would kick the bucket and get things over with, I still manage to realize how terribly done it was. Bella sees Jacob as an option AT THE END OF THE BOOK! Before that, they are "just friends"( even if he sexually assaulted her ), and if Bella doesn't even believe in a relationship with that guy, how are we supposed to? We don't. Team Jacob for me is just an OOC fandom group, people hopping in vain that Bella will choose the less creepy of the two. And book four is he best/worse depending on how you take it. I was hopping for an "everyone-you-hate-in-this-book-dies" kinda ending ( wich includes Bella, Edward, Pedobear and demon child). But the whole climax is once again stupidly avoided. Think about it: Renesmee says"I am half-human, trust me", and Aro goes "No can do". Nahuel comes and says "I am half-human too. Trust me", and Aro goes "Oh! Your a guy! I can trust you!". Stupid stupid stupid. And about Pedophile Jacob, again I saw that coming. As soon as imprinting was introduced, I thought "okay, it's twilight, Jacob is going to imprint, because no way he isn't going to get a "happy ending"". Then Bella was pregnant, and I knew that Jacob was doomed to become creepier than Edward. Because Smeyer is like a girl playing with her toys: as a child, you can easily make your toy dog marry your toy cat, because you don't care about what they truly are, they have to fit your dream vision. The only one that must be carefully selected is the prince for the princess (as if you didn't get it, Bella and Edward).So when the failed plot twist came; I already did my mourning. That is why the books were boring: you never actually doubt your predictions, you never actually think "Oh my god, how did this happen!". I am not sure if this rant is welcomed on this page, but if not, sorry. Didn't know where to place it.
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Post by Is A Bell A Swan? on Jul 30, 2011 8:30:06 GMT -8
Meyer knows the word "pissed" ?
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Post by limelightqueen on Jul 30, 2011 11:56:36 GMT -8
Here's the issue with the above: He didn't. Edward did not kill James. That's a retcon on Meyer's part. This could have easily been sidestepped by the fact that Victoria wasn't there and therefore only assumes that Edward killed James. But instead everyone takes it as a fact that Edward killed James.
When he didn't:
Another much more reasonable tack to take would be that because James was hunting Bella when he died, Victoria blames Bella for his death.
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Post by MeghanJH on Jul 30, 2011 14:31:24 GMT -8
I was having a hard time falling asleep last night so I wound up watching Fashion Police with Joan Rivers and during it Joan Rivers went on this rant about how unattractive RPattz is.
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Post by limelightqueen on Jul 30, 2011 15:16:02 GMT -8
^That reminds me of thefashionpolice.net where they have been known to call KStew "the fashion dementor."
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Post by MeghanJH on Jul 30, 2011 15:36:31 GMT -8
^That reminds me of thefashionpolice.net where they have been known to call KStew "the fashion dementor." lol
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Post by vampirekites on Jul 30, 2011 15:45:06 GMT -8
I don't think Rob is *actually* ugly, he just doesn't present himself very well. That hair he had a few years ago was simply hideous. Unwashed and unkempt, he seriously looked like he crawled out of a dumpster.
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