Posts tagged Twilight
Fifty Shades of Why
New York Times #1 bestseller. Adapted from Twilight fanfiction.
This can't possibly end well.
amymist asked:
if you do read twilight, please blog it. thank.
I’ll certainly liveblog it over on my personal blog, but I probably won’t go more in-depth than that.
mnemosynelethe asked:
(God, I hope I haven't posted something along those lines before, I typed up a post once but I'm not sure if I sent it.) Have you read How Not to Write a Novel? It's a humorous "misstep by misstep" writing guide. I bet we could fill at least half the guide with 50 Shades. The biggest source of mistakes is, surprise, inner monologue. James gets almost everything wrong. Relevant for the smiles now: Ana is overly dramatic in her inner monologue. Girl, sometimes, a smile is just a smile. tbc
part 2:
Also, Ana knows stuff she shouldn’t know. Of course, Grey’s smiles are “sly” or “dark”, because he’s going all, “in my pants/torture dungeon” after every sentence. But Ana can’t know that. To Ana, it should be a regular smile, or perhaps occasionally an inappropriate smile. It’s like Twilight. Even if you didn’t know the premise, the fact that Edward is a vampire is just unbelievable obvious. And so is Christian’s dark hobby.
I haven’t read How Not to Write a Novel, but it sounds like the kind of thing I’d like.
Perhaps Ana is special, after all: she has a preternatural awareness of other people’s thoughts. Unfortunately, she only gets through just enough of the telepathic fog to have a bare inkling of what’s going on—certainly not enough to keep her out of danger.
I am not interested in any character whose author defines them only by how their significant other or romantic interest perceives and interacts with them.
A person is more than who they date and how that person sees them. To define someone that way is to take a limited and unhealthy point of view.
Christian Grey eats. Vampires do not eat. Therefore, using E.L. James logic, Christian Grey must be a totally different character from Edward Cullen.
Also: I hate to say positive things about Fifty Shades of Grey, but it is kind of nice that E.L. acknowledges that body image issues are a problem for some people. There are so many more protagonists who are okay with how they look than there are real people.
Anonymous asked:
In response to your question about Paul, I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be Mike Newton, whose family owned Newton's Outfitters where Bella worked in the books. Obviously, Mike (and every guy freaking ever) had the hots for Bella and made Edward so very jealous. Gag me now.
Lovely! Talk about a Mary Sue.
I’d gag you, but given the BDSM context of the book, people might talk.
lesayue asked:
So I'm assuming "Paul" is really Mike Newton, i.e. one of the many boys that fell in love with Bella that she ignored. Also she works at his dad's shop. So far, this character has been strangely canonical. Props?
I don’t know how you remember all of these details from the Twilight books. I read them what feels like forever ago. I might need to read them again.
…oh, God.
Anonymous asked:
My mom refuses to believe that Fifty Shades of Grey is based on Twilight fanfiction because they're are no vampires and none of the characters from Twilight are in it.
I’m sorry about your mom. I hope she has some redeeming qualities.
lesayue asked:
I have a theory: E.L. James didn't have to explain the relationships between all of these characters when she wrote it originally since Twilight formed the basis for all of that, so when it came time for her to make this original she just slopped something together fast to take it to printer. If we were talking about Bella and Jacob and whoever the hell Kate is supposed to be, no one would need an explanation of their relationship (unless they didn't know what Twilight was). Ergo, vague and blah
That would certainly be consistent with the rest of the laziness in the book.
quillkind asked:
There is a Fifty Shades vampire AU.
It's called Twilight.
It's called Twilight.
Dude, I know.
karaita asked:
NOPE. NOPE, that does not work, e.l. james. you cannot "just do whatever you want", even in an au. the deviation from canon has to make sense within canon context, and the characters have to be consistent within themselves. granted, turning edward cullen from a scary vampire into a scary human is a pretty big change, but everything else has to change consistent to that change. make rosalie human, fine. make her bellas roommate? NO. sorry, that kinda thing really pisses me off.
I think we can all agree that E.L. James is not a very good writer, no matter what the context.
