The name's Katy. I'm sixteen years young. I'm a Christian, but I promise I'm not a Bible thumper. I'm stuck living in Texas, but my heart will forever be in California. I'm going to be a junior at Plano East Senior High this coming year. I play clarinet in band, and I'm completely in love with it. My favorite part of the school year is marching season, known to you other kids as football season. Band knows where the action's at. I plan on getting a Bachelor's in photojournalism at university. I plan on someday becoming a missionary in Uganda while using photography to inform the world of exactly what the heck is going on there. Dance is my favorite sport ever. I like dancing even more than I like baseball, and believe me, that's saying something. I freaking love baseball. [San Francisco Giants, ftw!] I'm a hopeless bookworm. I blame it on my mom for getting me the first Harry Potter for Christmas when I was in the first grade. That's right: I've been an obsessive HP fangirl since before you even knew he existed. [I was reading PoA while they were filming SS/PS] My favorite genres of books are fantasy, sci-fi, and pretty much anything off the YA rack. As long as it's not a cliche sappy teen romance, anyway. My favorite movie of all time is El Laberinto del Fauno, or Pan's Labyrinth for those that don't know the Spanish title. I really like how the faerie and human worlds are one and the same for Ofelia and that we never find out for certain if it was just her imagination or if it was actually all real. I have the most amazing Santa hat ever - it's camouflage! hah. My favorite shoes are Converse All-Star low tops, but I'm all over a really good pair of heels, too. I enjoy making things match that you wouldn't normally think to match together. It usually ends up looking pretty decent, too.. As far as I can tell, anyway. I've only ever had one boyfriend, and even though we broke up at the start of sophomore year, our friendship is still intact. In fact, we're now proud to be each other's best friends, and I am so thankful for that every day of my life. I've seen too many friendships simply die because people dated each other and had a bad breakup. I feel so blessed that our friendship didn't die because we broke up; in fact, I think it only made us stronger, knowing that we don't work like at all as a couple.. And he's the most amazing best friend anyone could ever hope for. I love you, Clay Steeley! [Aka, Uncle Debbie the hobo that lives on the front lawn and in the shed]

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Twilight rant..

 
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I was looking through pottersues on LJ today,
and there was one truly awful fanfic featured in the past week.
The author had obviously taken a Twilight scene,
changed it to Harry Potter characters,
and gave absolutely no thought to grammar and punctuation.
It was a hideous fic in and of itself, but I would've liked it less
if it hadn't been for the comments people left about it.

People mentioned that it was a blatant Twilight ripoff...
And then proceeded to bash Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight series.

WHAT. THE. CRAP.

Nobody even came up with decent arguments for why they hate it, either.
If they could fully explain the reason for their hate, I wouldn't mind.. As much...

Some quotes from people's comments, and my personal thoughts:

"Twilight is a horrible book, how bad would you have to be to steal scenes from it?"

See, that's what I mean! Why is it horrible? EXPLAIN YOUR HATE! Gah..



-"D: Gawd, why must all the fangirls be obsessed with it?
-If it keeps them away from slaughtering the /good/ books, I don't really mind.
-No, it just makes them bring stupid Twilight cliches back to their other fandoms."

Twilight is good! Meyer's writing style is unique, interesting, and good. The way she writes works very well for Twilight. Also, can somebody explain to me how a completely non-traditional freakin vegetarian vampire and a totally normal high school girl falling in love, which makes said high school girl actually want to become a bloodthirsty fiend, even though she's also in love with the Native American werewolf in the next city over - oh, and there's the fact that the high school girl's brain apparently won't let her feel pain - can be called cliche at all.

Honestly....



"I swear, Twilight made me laugh so loud. Sexxy vampyrs = INSTANT FAIL."

There's a perfectly legitimate reason for why Meyer's vamps are all crazy hot - they're physically attractive to the human eye, and humans will be less likely to pay any actual attention to what's going on because they're too busy oggling at the uberhotness. And don't pretend you wouldn't do the same if Twilight were true! It's a simple statement of fact that that's how the human mind works, and Meyer's vampires exploit that fact extremely well.



"Vampires shouldn't sparkle in the sunlight. They should either lose their powers, turn to dust/ash/stone, or not care. But come on? Sparkles?"

This is the comment that really pissed me off. Why aren't vampires allowed to sparkle? Yeah, it's unconventional, but so is absolutely everything else about Twilight. It's the recurring theme throughout the books, to be unconventional. Heck, Bella herself calls her relationship with Edward unconventional! Meyer is fully aware of the fact that her vamps are totally not traditional. But who cares? All she did was take a generic monster template and built on it in a new way. Why shouldn't there be vegetarian vampires? If vampires actually existed, I know I'd be hoping for as many vegans as possible. And Meyer's clear-cut about all the vamp myths, too. Take the sparkling for example again: They sparkle in sunlight, therefore they don't go in sunlight, which makes people think they CAN'T be in the sunlight. This, of course, is basic human reasoning. Every single person on the face of the planet is guilty of drawing what they think is a concrete conclusion from what they think is a concrete fact - and then it turns out the 'fact' was completely false, and so you really have nothing to base your conclusion on, rendering it incorrect. But since nobody bothers to try and figure out the actual fact, everybody sits on their butt and accepts the conclusion at face value.



... I think I've got all of my venting done now.
I just can't stand people who hate decent writing for absolutely no reason.
If you don't like the writing or plot itself, that's totally fine by me.
If you just don't like how they reinvented a basic concept...
Well, base your opinion on how well it's actually written.

Jeez.

*sigh*... Okay, really done now.
 Posted 7/10/2008 12:56 AM - 158 views - 2 comments

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Decent writing? Stephanie Meyer's series is FAR from decent writing. It's flat, boring, contains no characterizations, and so completely misogynistic.
Posted 7/29/2008 5:16 PM by jen - reply

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Should I clarify? 'Decent' here meaning 'doesn't make me want to spork my eyes out.'
I've read much, much worse. Heck, I'd take Twilight over Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series any day simply because WoT bored me to tears. I won't deny that he's a great writer, but WoT is a painfully boring read the majority of the time.

Mostly, Twilight is a guilty pleasure. I was just pissed off because none of the comments mentioned any actual reason as to why they hated it, and I can't stand when people don't justify themselves. (Thank you, by the way, for explaining why *you* don't like it.)
Posted 7/29/2008 10:49 PM by ohcrap_itskaty - reply


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