Posts tagged Twilight fanfiction
Fifty Shades of Why
New York Times #1 bestseller. Adapted from Twilight fanfiction.
This can't possibly end well.
Slapping on some shiny gray eyes, cutting a few ellipses, and using find and replace to give everyone simpering, florid names like Anastasia and Christian does not mean the story is now original.
Anonymous asked:
I know E.L James' writing is bad, but what would you expect from a fan fiction of Twilight?
I’ve read some fanfiction that was of a higher quality than its source material. I try not to expect anything too specific of most things.
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.
gehayi asked:
I regret to say that the "singing blood" thing is a carryover from Twilight. Each vampire supposedly has a singer--the one person in all the world whose blood is more appealing to him/her than any other. Most vamps never meet their singers. Naturally, Bella was Edward's. So James is trying to suggest that not only is her protagonist excited about more sex, but that her Not-Bella and Not-Edward are perfect for each other, even if they don't yet know it.
Oh god, really?
It is time for me to read Twilight, I think. Wish me luck.
Anonymous asked:
did you know you would hate the book before you read it, apart from it being a Twilight fanfic?
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Fifty Shades was a very popular book. Second, there was a part of it — and I didn’t know how potent that part might be — that was poorly written. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in hate with it.
Bad Twilight references aside, no. I did not know I would hate Fifty Shades before I read it, though I strongly suspected I would. Everything I had heard about it had been negative, to the point where I thought the book could not possibly be as bad as I’d been told. Then I read it and discovered that not only did it live up to its reputation, it surpassed it.
I wanted to give Fifty Shades a fighting chance. Really I did. I tried to read it with an open mind. I could not deny the slight possibility that I might find Fifty Shades bearable, or even like it.
However, upon placing my eyes upon the first few pages of the book, I felt a literary anger and disgust that only wells up in me when I find myself confronted by the most piteous, awful, poorly executed amateur fiction out there.
I am confident in saying that Fifty Shades of Grey is the shittiest book I have ever read. And I’ve read a lot of books.
lesayue asked:
In light of MotU: I was reading it for comparison before the website took it down and it is almost word-for-word 50 Shades of Grey.
I have a copy of MotU. They are nearly identical.
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.
gaviindaviidfree asked:
wait, so how do we know it was adapted from Twilight fanfiction? did the author admit that? because that's almost as embarrassing as admitting she WROTE it.
There’s a ton of evidence showing that Fifty Shades is based off of James’ Twilight fanfiction Master of the Universe, which she originally published online under the name Snowqueens Icedragon.
Here is a good article comparing the two pieces.
E.L. claims that 50 Shades ‘grew’ out of MotU, but the truth is 50 shades was sloppily altered from MotU. Lovely.
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.
