• SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    50 Shades Of Grey was a big thing, and I just remember being completely mystified by the idea that anyone would think it romantic

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      24 hours ago

      “He vampired billionairely across the room, his sweetly-softcore rapey vibes engulfed her small feminine self-inserty hair, she looked exactly like [you, the girl reading this], and he was very vampirey and mysterious…”

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        24 hours ago

        Yeah … one of my girlfriends at the time was really into Twilight (and quite an experienced sub), she went to see it and said it was just shite

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          23 hours ago

          I took my daughters to see Breaking Dawn Part 1 at a midnight showing. I had not really watched the previous movies but boy it kimd of made that movie a bit wild. Like, it opens with a wedding, then the vampire and his new wife go off and try to have careful honeymoon sex, because he is strong enough to kill her or some shit. Then there is drama with some Native American werewolves, and the wife ends up pregnant then the vampire daddy has to like, bite her so she can give birth or some shit while the wolves and vampires fight.

          It was just all, very out of context and ended on a cliffhanger for the second half of a book.

          Even now I have only sort of gotten the overall plot despite being in the room with these movies several times, but its kind of all just vingettes. The wolf dude does some thing with a motorcycle, there is some drama in Europe where the vampire dude gets sparkly in public and there are Vampire leaders who are all assholes. There is a big fight I think at the end of the series where everyone dies but then they don’t. There is a baseball game somewhere in there.

          Thats about all I remeber across 4,5? Movies.

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            14 hours ago

            Are you not aware that the werewolf dude who has been crushing on Bella “imprints” (some werewolf soul mate type bullshit) on her newborn daughter bc apparently he wasn’t in love with Bella but the eggs? of her unborn daughter inside her? So he just thought he was in love with Bella? But it’s fine bc the vampire baby “grows up” really fast so she looks like she’s his age really quickly. At least Bella is upset that Jacob imprints on her newborn daughter…

            Yeah the entire series is crazy but this part is just batshit insane to me that the author thought she was cooking here

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            12 hours ago

            For something like that which is actually good, watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

            The Twilight books and movies are all terrible, but I don’t think that people would’ve gotten so worked up over them if they’d been written for men instead of women.