Teenage Biting Trend inspired by 'Twilight'

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KWICKO

Sunday, July 11, 2010 2:19 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Oh, wait, those were Zombies - sorry, I get those confused...

The right-wing Zombie 'Pockseclipse is pending, unless the Obamanator comes BACK.

I sadly fear the worst.

The laughing Chrisisall

Too late...

THATWEIRDGIRL

Sunday, July 11, 2010 4:33 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
...especially when the sister threw open the window blinds, and Jr was all glittery....

I'm not a sister.

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MANWITHPEZ

Sunday, July 11, 2010 4:37 PM

Yeah! And if she's my daughter, then...what does that say about me?

Besides the fact that I'd dress my son up as a Twilight "vampire".

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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11THHOUR

Monday, July 12, 2010 1:50 AM

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Originally posted by Misstressahara:
More and more tweens have been getting violent to the point that many believe there may be a death soon. So as I see it this is just a new phase in this sickening phenomena.

Makes other fandoms rather tame really.

I'm trying to remember if there was anything similar to this phenomenon happening when Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles first appeared on the scene. I don't think so. Mostly her books inspired some interesting fashion choices and party themes to invoke the elegant bygone days of New Orleans. But fan violence and attacks on non-fans? Not so much... if at all.

Why is there such a difference? Is it the times in which we live where people tend to think in violent terms first? Or is it that the Twilight books attract a high proportion of highly hormonally charged teen and pre-teen followers? Emotions often trump rational thought especially in the teenage years.

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BYTEMITE

Monday, July 12, 2010 2:19 AM

Well, except I hear the fan violence is parents, too. Though it's possible that's in response to what their kids (also fans?) may have started.

My suspicion is that Twilight, 1) somehow calls to something in these people that they relate with, 2) this relatability creates fanatical behaviour, and 3) this is the first thing many of them have ever really fan obsessed over.

Firefly can create something similar in new fans, like I myself am a first time fanatic, so it's like Firefly will always be my first love. The difference is, Firefly compelled me to become a browncoat, and browncoats have a preestablished structure to siphon new fan energy into positive activity.

Twilight, on the other hand, is engineered first of all that this energy is SHIPPER energy. Second that it pits shippers against each other within the fandom itself (Edward versus, uh, the werewolf, is it Jacob? I know the vampire and not the werewolf, me is sad). Third that it pits the series against the rest of the world, since there has been sincere criticism from the very beginning. And fourth, there is no organization among the fans to channel energy positively.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 12, 2010 2:31 AM

There's a trope for that...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShipToShipCombat
Kinda interesting to watch, from a safe distance, like a gruesome car wreck you just HAVE to ogle, not so fun when you get caught up in the crossfire, whether you care or not.

Part of the hard fanaticism (forgive me this lil bit of obnoxiousness) is that what the whole thing is... it's fanfic, bad fanfic, it's the book all of em WANTED to write, all of em DID write, but they didn't play the game, kissing up to all the right butts at the circle jerks of mutual suck up they call writers workshops and conventions, stroking the right egos, et cetera, not that it's all *that* badly written, but really it's prettymuch the same thing you can find on a million blogs and so it resonates with them, makes em feel like someone understands their angst in a way they never really get from a mainstream source, so they go full on bonkers over it.

That's not a slam on Meyer, mind, you can have the most technically perfect novel ever written and it means nothing if nobody bloody reads it, if you fail to appeal to your intended audience, and on that level of things it's pure win, sure.

Of course, what this meme REALLY needs to be complete is an equally engaging book series about werewolves, so we can get the whole Vulp-Vamp rivalry goin, and won't that be fun...

-Frem

BYTEMITE

Monday, July 12, 2010 3:04 AM

I know. :( I'm firmly team werewolf myself, so I don't understand the side that goes vamp. Werewolves aren't damned forever or what not, so they have fun, seems to me.

BORIS

Monday, July 12, 2010 3:36 AM

o dear god! what is wrong with kids that they'd actually do this crap? I mean When I was 7 or 8 I did the blood ties thing with friends I wanted to be "blood brothers(or sisters) with but even I knew a cut on each finger would be enought to cause an infection...and I also knew I'd get punished for doing it along with a lecture about impending consequences. Who the hell in this day and age is stoopid enough to bite someones neck and try to draw blood. Why don't these kids have more common sense?

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 12, 2010 3:44 AM

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Originally posted by boris:
Why don't these kids have more common sense?

9-11, the economy, the Constitution-thrashing, the torture, reality TV: I'm frankly amazed kids today aren't MORE crazy.

The laughing Chrisisall

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 12, 2010 3:47 AM

Byte: I think you'd really get a kick outta Larry's book, Monster Hunter International.

THAT one is about team let's-kick-arse, from a staunchly realistic perspective, and would probably give you the giggles in response to your attitude about this whole meme, heh heh.

Here's a sample chapter, mind.
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/mhi-sample-chapters/

And Baen Books offers the first seven, to sharpen the hook, you see - trust me, you'll enjoy this immensely.
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1439132852/1439132852.htm

I'd bet MHI against Eddie and all his little friends, hands down.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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