(vampires + werewolves) * heteromance

[keryx]

I enjoy vampire/werewolf ridiculousness muchly. Mostly I like how we keep trying to use the popularity of a few books and movies to Explain Our Culture, as if it will respond to such fat-fingered analogies.

But Cleo's thing about romance and tenderness and eyeporn, like the best of the vamps/weres wank, has actual interesting stuff in it.

Is romance about this particular treacly version of tenderness? And am I the only person who finds the whole Edward movie character utterly slimy? If that's tenderness, it's like the tenderness of a jellyfish, about to wrap itself around your leg and sting the heck out of you.

Anyhow. New Twilight movie out, apparently.

Comments

[ivyblogs.livejournal.com]

I think Edward is creepy too. I much prefer the vampire and werewolf in Being Human. The vampire is played more like a recovering addict than a mysterious man of romance and the wereworlf is priggish and uptight. I love them both!

[miffyness.livejournal.com]

I watched Twilight for the first time tonight, and that is not a model of a healthy relationship. He is CREEPY, and I don't mean in a spooky paleskinned supernatural way, I mean in a 'behaves erratically, estranges you from your friends, thinks it is his job to protect you from the rest of the world' way.

It bothers me that anyone would think this is romantic. It only sets off my 'potentially abusive weirdo' radar.

[steamedwords.livejournal.com]

It really, really bothers me that people hold that dude up as some kind of ideal. Edward is a creepy controlling stalker. Ew.

[steamedwords.livejournal.com]

Of course, I think Bill from True Blood, Eli from Let The Right One In, and Lestat from the Vampire Chronicles are all awesome. Double standards, I has them. But none of them ever cut anyone's brakes!

[volondoinyaface.livejournal.com]

Fucking twiglight and its twiglightingness. I know for a fact I will see that movie and fight the urge to scream at the screen constantly, but I am taking Lahela so at least I know I won't be alone in my hate. She doesn't know that she has to come yet, but it's happening.

I hate Bella and Edward in Twilight, and I hate that to make Edward seem okay comparatively the author made the only decent person in the series a pushy dick in the third book. So there ya go. But generally speaking (as we've discussed), I'm all about the idea of unbridled, hedonistic werewolf orgies. Especially if vamps of the same tendency (a la Eric Northman) happen to be invited too. Generally, fantasy novels can distress me because they seem to over-emphasize the human girl-supernatural love interest (I'm so plain and so glad he picked me!) thing, but when they're done well and interesting I don't mind that it reminds me of freshman-senior romances in high school.

Did that make sense? I cant tell.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

You know, I bet everyone is so glad someone picked them - I mean, I figure that's a common experience and of course fiction ultrasupermagnifies that. It might not be as creepy as it looks. It's pleasing to know we're wanted, assuming it's by someone who's wanting isn't unwelcome.

WTF is your userpic? And did you read any more of the Sookie books? Cause that Eric is pretty hilarious. Still a pushy dick, but really fun about it. Why do I think that kind of pushiness is ok (both fictional and otherwise)?