I would like to put this out there while avoiding toe-stepping if at all possible. I know some of you must love Twilight. It’s a phenomenon after all, and it wouldn’t be a phenomenon if no one loved it. I’ll kindly not point out the fact that Stephenie Meyer has pledged ten-percent of all of her Twilight earnings to the Mormon Church and that the Mormon Church is pretty much single-handedly responsible for passing Prop 8. Instead I would just like to quote, in its entirety, this section of a recent article written about Twilight‘s astronomical box-office.
”’I went in expecting it to be crap and completely ruin my idea of the books,” says Danylle Utley, a 31-year-old accountant and married mother who is the president of Salt Lake Twilighters Anonymous. ”And it completely amazed me.” She saw the movie three times by the end of the weekend, including a Thursday midnight screening where she and 24 fellow club members dressed up in prom gowns and ate mushroom ravioli for dinner as homages to Bella and Edward’s romance.
”People think that I’m insane because I’m so invested with this fandom,” she says with a giggle. ”But they’re all just jealous that the things they love aren’t this big.”’
I’m at a loss here. Do I have to make fun of this myself or does it serve as its own punchline?
Oh screw it. Here goes…
Honey, trust me, that is not why they think you’re insane.
November 29th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I haven’t read the book nor have I seen the movie so I can’t really judge the “Twilight†story but I have not problem judging SM for her Mormon affiliation.
Mormons wanting to save the sanctity of marriage. That’s irony, right? And not the Alanis kind. (thank you again, Liz Estrada
) And if I’m not mistaking, didn’t the Mormons found their own state to avoid prejudice and persecution? Anywho…
What I want to know is; Does the mushroom ravioli come with funny brownies for dessert?
November 29th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I’ve read Twilight and I don’t really understand why it’s so big considering the writing is atrocious. The worst thing is that Twilight is the type of book where even though the writing is bad, you have to finish what you started to see if it can possibly get any worse. It does. I’ve only read the first to books before I asked myself, “Self, do you really want to be known as an S&M freak?” After that brief conversation, I decided to stop reading.
As for Danylle, she should ask herself what the hell is wrong with her sex life that she’s getting all sexed up for a homage to a teenage couple as opposed to her significant other? Being that into a fandom of a teenage pairing is a bit weird, when it’s someone who’s almost at the cusp of middle age (is she?) then it’s downright pedo-ish.
When Harry Potter fans dress up as their favorite characters, it’s fun, but when Twilight fans do it, it’s scary.
November 30th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Heh… funny brownies. I also haven’t read Twilight. I did pick it up in the bookstore once to see what the fuss was about. It took me less than five pages to realize I would never get through it.
Closing in on middle age at 31? Wow, chic must have a short life expectancy
November 30th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Closing in on middle age? Now that really scares me. I’ve heard only bad things about Twilight and its author: That it’s boring, misogynistic, and that the gal who’s writing it doesn’t seem to care much about their fans – well, except, obviously, making a lot of money from them. [about JP what you want, but he links to fanfiction on his official page (just, sadly, not to the VS
).]
The whole percentage for the Mormon church thing – the last straw.
I love the idea of the giveaway for Christmas, btw, but I’m too much in awe to go play in your universe.