Sahan wrote:Shiny skin? I'm pretty sure robots can't be vampires too. Also, incandescent implies light being emitted due to heating, so perhaps this was just a slightly less nerdy-sounding way of saying 'OMG Edward Cullen is so HOT, he emits blackbody radiation in the frequency of visible light!'
I would have appreciated this story more.
Rainbow wrote:I am creating a plan to symbolically burn the twilight trilogy to express my detest for society. Hooray for napalm!
Isn't that just what society wants you to do? You need to FIGHT hegemony by refusing to play into society's attempts to get you to disagree!
So I drove through Forks, WA this afternoon (which is, so they tell me, the setting for the Twilight series). Talk about a depressing place to be.
As my friend Ian put it: "I'll bet brooding is the most popular pastime in that town." No kidding.
Besides being the setting of a story that inspires not just angst but teen angst *shudders,* the entire main street (all 2 miles of it) is basically a walking* ad for the books/movie. Every window of practically every store is covered in posters, t-shirts, and even life-sized cut-outs of Twilight characters. Let's just say, if I were a citizen of this town, I would probably see books like Twilight as a feel-good lighthearted piece of literature when compared to the day-to-day life in the abyss of a town that is Forks.
Also, who names a town after eating utensils?
*EDIT: And by walking, I mean completely stationary.
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Wow. So all the kids are probably depressed and now they have to look at twilight shit all day... if they want to up their suicide rate that is the way to go.
I assume there were one or several forks in the main road or nearby river at that point. Or they used to have a factory that produced forks, but no other type of cutlery. Most likely the latter.
Destructicus wrote:
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"I wonder if chemists feel bad that they're always left out of these sorts of jokes."
Neglected Shoe wrote:Besides being the setting of a story that inspires not just angst but teen angst *shudders,* the entire main street (all 2 miles of it) is basically a walking* ad for the books/movie. Every window of practically every store is covered in posters, t-shirts, and even life-sized cut-outs of Twilight characters.
Keep me away from this town or I will burn it to the ground. (Although at this point I might be doing them a favor)
Cirtur wrote:We have a town in the UK, called Bathe. We say it's because they've only got one and the whole town shares it.
I used to have a friend in Bathe. Then I said that and now I don't.
I thought it was called Bath? I performed in a church there when my guitar ensemble toured in 2007. All hygiene issues aside, the town is quite an interesting place with those historic townhouses and narrow roads and a friggen massive church.
EDIT: Spelling
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Destructicus wrote:
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"I wonder if chemists feel bad that they're always left out of these sorts of jokes."
Isn't it the historic Roman baths that your meant to be looking at when you go there? I drove through this place, I saw it off the highway (main road whatever) for a few seconds. I have fond memories of those road signs I passed.