Comments on: ObTwilight

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:50:28 +0000

Phone call with my sister a year ago:
Her: I’m reading a book
Me: For school?
Her: No
Me: For fun???
Her: Yeah
Me: *blink* *blink* *pick jaw up off floor* What book?
Her: “Twilight”

Hey, it got her to read a book, of her own free will for the first time ever. At age 19. Wow. Ya know, if she’s reading…maybe there’s hope yet of getting her over to the geek side…or at least getting her to stop making fun of me for reading.

Besides, I liked the series. I liked Anne Rice too. Vampires are seductive, and…well with the biting I could see an argument for kink in there too! :P

By: Skud

Skud — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:16:46 +0000

Another good post here: http://flourish.dreamwidth.org/455712.html

By: Bene

Bene — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:54:20 +0000

Cleolinda's fandom-based deconstruction of all of the Twilight books is epic. (Probably NSFW and it may contain problematic content somewhere...it's been a while since I reread it.)

By: koipond

koipond — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:48:09 +0000

Thirded with the win. I’m not even done it yet.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:03:01 +0000

Yours was not the first delicious suggestion to be dropped and surely won’t be the last, but once it inspired a whole post I thought it was worth pointing out which link it actually was…

By: pfctdayelise

pfctdayelise — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:11:11 +0000

Well I only use the geekfeminism tag with the intent to say “here’s something potentially of interest”, not “I will be crushed if you don’t include this link”.

That’s an awesome video mashup. I am so out of the loop. :)

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:58:57 +0000

In fairness, here's the link (from delicious) that I excluded from the roundup: Captain's Log - what do you see in him again?

By: Alice Boxhall

Alice Boxhall — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:48:55 +0000

So very made of win.

By: Leigh Honeywell

Leigh Honeywell — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:22:34 +0000

Tiger Beatdown's The Edward Cullen Underpants Conundrum is made of win, I think.

By: gchick

gchick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:05:47 +0000

I'm not a Twilight fan myself, but even so I enjoyed the hell out of this post at Bitch, which is a great takedown of some of the totally incoherent ways the whole phenomenon is being used to draw whatever conclusions people want about girls' sexuality.