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Man, I'm always sad when classes start and suddenly my nice, quiet Iowa City from over the summer turns into crazy, beer-soaked undergraduate hell...I feel like a crotchety old man, shaking my walker and being all YOU GOSHDURNED KIDS, GET OFF OF MY LAWN.

In other news, I've been reading the leaked bit of Stephenie Meyer's Midnight Sun (a retelling of Twilight from Edward's point of view). It actually is much better than the original, mostly because it spares us Bella's narration...you just see Bella from the outside, and she suddenly seems much more palatable than when she was our viewpoint character. The fact that that's the difference, however, does highlight how really unlikeable Bella is as a character, at least when you're inside her head. (Especially given that Edward is a creepy, emo, occasionally homicidal stalker and is STILL more likeable than Bella.)

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Date: 2008-08-30 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] courters28.livejournal.com
I haven't been exposed to any Twilight fandom (besides seeing some pictures of people with "Team Edward" hoodies) but now I am totally freaked out. Lucky for me, the only other people I know that like the series are 40-something women (my mom and her friends).

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Date: 2008-08-31 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yoshitsune.livejournal.com
Yeah, there are SO MANY SCARY Twilight fans out there. Only Harry Potter fans are scarier; at least no one is claiming to be married to Edward on the astral plane, like the Snapewives (http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Snapes_on_an_Astral_Plane)

Edit: Er, I should qualify...while I find Smeyer fandom scarier than HP fandom, it's not that the fans are crazier, because they're not; it's that the books are worse, so anyone finding it worthy of worship automatically strikes me as even loopier. XD
Edited Date: 2008-08-31 12:58 am (UTC)

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