So basically I just made last minute plans to make it to the ball at Azkatraz on Sunday. Unfortunatley, you can only buy a ticket to the ball if you are registered.
So here comes the favor.I was wondering if anyone that was registered could buy me a ticket (I believe they are only twenty dollars) and when I get there on Sunday I will pay you back no questions asked! I really wanted to go to Azkatraz but I couldn't scrape enough money together, so this would be a really awesome alternative.
Anyone willing to help me out? (:

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1. POV. First person is limited and often very-self absorbed. Third person allows for the character to be explored from outside as well as in.

2. The Protagonists. Bella Swan is passive with no discernible goals, passions, or friends. Edward has no personality whatsoever, but simply a two-dimensional character.
Harry is active and a true protagonist in that he refuses to be dragged around by anyone else. He has friends. He has hobbies. He has his jealousies and romances. He's a normal teenager in act but not circumstance. Bella is exposited as such, but her actions are of a complete puppet.

3. The villains. James and the Volturi have no motivation or depth. They're not that dangerous, clever, or powerful. Edward is invincible so any dramatic tension there is ruined.
Voldemort is dangerous. He is powerful, creative, and crafty, with a stubborn streak and a genocidal plan for world domination. Even the minor antagonists have their keys. Snape has motivation and dimension, with a tragic past and his own personal agenda (so much that ultimately he is forgiven for his evil). Bellatrix is the embodiment of mindless loyalty and passionate sadism. Draco is a flunky that dreams of power and revenge but finds out reality is different.

4. Other characters. The Cullens are barely developed. Bella's parents are discarded almost as quickly as her classmate. Her world is insular and revolves around her and her lust for Edward.
Harry is nothing without his friends. Dumbledore guides him, and has his own plans hidden to others. He needs his parental figures (Hagrid, Lupin, Sirius Black), and when he loses them he must work through the challenge. His friends Ron and Hermione give him support and something for his personality to bounce off of. Indeed, later on Hermione and Ron have subplots of their own. Even seemingly minor characters like Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood grow and change into their own subplots and characters (Neville even upstages Harry).

5. The Romance. There is very little reason for Edward and Bella to connect, little conflict, and ultimately no depth. They're just pretty little dolls placed together to look pretty. And this shallow, obsessive, immature relationship is presented as the best love in history.

In Harry Potter, romances are a bit more human. His first love turns to be a breakup since she's very sensitive and he's unable to understand her feelings. He is shallow and possessive, but it's a simple teenage romance that is not essential to the story. I personally hated the Harry/Ginny subplot but it was not essential at all and could be ignored. It's something that comes natural for teenagers.

6. The world. The World of Twilight is underdeveloped. It's depressing normalcy that one would not expect from a book on supernatural, undead creatures. There's nothing unique, nothing colorful, nothing interesting.

The world in Harry Potter is complex and both separate and parallel to ours. There are schools, sports, shops, mansions, flats, hovels,banks, towns, government buildings, prisons. They are all different from the real world, but logical and natural products of human beings.

7.Morality. The morals in Twilight all are short-sighted and temporary. Animals are food. Humans are worthless. Mortality is a burden. Native Americans are subhumans. If you're normal, you're a pathetic wretch that can do nothing to anything. Women are defined by their men, and men are defined on their physical attractiveness.

(to be continued)

I was told that I should post this here. It is a Tokio Hotel FanFic, with Taylor Hanson as the love interest. You must be a member on this site to read, but it's so worth it.

TITLE: A Blue Sky Waiting
AUTHOR:  Misery, revolyat, LadyChickenSoup, PetiteKaulitzBelle
Summary: Bill came to the US in the beginning of the year as a foreign exchange student. Now, the school year is up, but several factors are keeping him from returning home to Germany. Follow along with him as he discovers more about himself, and the people around him, than he ever thought possible.
RATED: NC17
CATAGORIES: Slash
CHARACTERS: Andreas, Bill Kaulitz, Georg Listing, Gordon Trumper, Gustav Schafer, Male Celebrity, Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Simone Trumper, Tom Kaulitz
GENRE: Alternate Universe, Angst, Crossover, Drama, First Time, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Twincest
MAIN PAIRING: Bill/Male Celebrity , Tom/Bill
WARNINGS: Abuse, Adult Content, Drug Use, Incest, Violence, WIP
CHAPTERS: 5 COMPLETED: No 
WORD COUNT: 15758 READ: 75
PUBLISHED: 07/09/09 UPDATED: 07/12/09

fiction.tokiohotelfiction.com/viewstory.php 

You must be a member on the site to read.

 I've been reading and hearing rumors about the actor Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter) that he's going to be in one of the next films in Twilight saga. Is there any confirmation?

If that's true (let's hope not), what's your opinion

Hey!

I was just wondering if any of you were former fangirls. I was, and I snapped out of it in the end.

Here's my story.

Well, I read the books and I liked them, so I became a fangirl, and my BFF, who'd gotten the book as a christmas present joined me. We became hardcore fans, her more than me, as I don't own the books (read the series online) or any merchandise, and she owns some t-shirts, the books and a whole lot of crap posters. I snapped out of it after about a month and a half, yet my friends is still a twihard and now a lot of my friends are because she introduced the books to them. I went to crazy lengths to defend the series. The only thing I didn't resort to is violence.

Now I want to hear your crazy fangirl stories, so comment with details. Specifically how many friends who have who are twihards, how long it took you to snap out of the craze, how much merch you owned, what it took to get out of the craze, and what measures you went to in trying to defend the books.

Thnx,
Bye

Hey everybody! Just wanted to tell you there will be a walk today in downtown Syracuse. Signups are at 1:30 and the walk starts at 2 @ the M.O.S.T. y'all know what a great cause it is, so i won't go into the lecture lol. It's going to be a really nice day, so come out and support! If you need a ride or have questions or whatever my cell is (315) 256-1349, feel free to call.
          Thanks, Katie 

I'll give it a try :D



My Thread

I'm sorry to do the whole "intro post" thing, but I'm just glad that I'm not the only one to have interchanged "twi" with "twat" before the word "light."

In fact, from a post in my personal LJ from a couple days ago:

My boyfriend's massive television is hooked up to a computer. So we can use the internet and watch downloaded movies on a really big ass screen in the living room. About a week ago I noticed a "Twilight" folder displayed on the screen. I said, "Ugh, who does that shit belong too?"
Adrian said that it was Hennah's *Psycho Girl* and that she's crazy about the whole Twilight thing.

I right clicked and renamed:

"TwilightSucks"

*I know.  Too clever, right?*

Yesterday I noticed someone had changed it back:

"TwilightRocks*

*Adorable. *Rolls eyes.

After considering renaming the folder as "Twilight is the worst piece of crap ever made. Robert Pattinson is a F**  " I eventually decided on this gem:

"Twatlight."

FTW

For the record, I've never read the Twilight series, but based on wasting matinee admission on the movie and reading an absolutely stellar critique of the series in the noir issue of Bitch magazine I was completely absolved of any desire to read the book.  I love the writer's pressing of the term "abstinence porn." Well, I'm still a bit tempted to read the series, much in the same way it's sometimes difficult not to stare at someone puking their guts out in the street. Perhaps reading it would give me a hearty self righteous excuse to rant and criticize the downfall of western civilization via Stephanie Myer. The same twisted pleasure I used to get from ripping into horrid student written stories when I took creative writing at the community college. It's my duty as a serious writer with an intent to publish.

--->

More examples:


Comments/PSD located here.

( They're trying to build a prison. )

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Hello all, it's me again. The one who did a semi-rant on this whole business. But now I'm back for a full session of ranting. Because... well there are just that many things that I find rant...able.

After reading some replies to my first post on this community and reading some recent posts, I have compiled some categories based on the Twilight series to vent my distaste and anger for the books.

This full-session rant will be about my hatred for Breaking Dawn.

[EDIT] Behold! I have learned to do an LJ Cut. LOL. So I apologize to those who had to scroll through an endless field of ranting.

[EDIT-EDIT] I just tried the LJ Cut html code and it doesn't seem to work. I'm confused. Someone help? D:

[TRIPLE EDIT] IT WORKS. REVELATION! Let me do my rain dance. Okay, sorry for the trouble. Enjoy~


( Onward! )

 

Title: {Eric/Sookie}║Blurry
Song: "Blurry"- Puddle of Mudd
Pairing/Characters: Eric/Sookie
Fandom:True Blood
Summary: ~ WATCH IN HQ~ It's honestly so much better :)Just a small vidlet, no real theme or plot :)

Both ITV1 and Sky Movies released incredibly long BTS videos on HBP, courtesy of RG.net. They can be seen below.

( Does Dumbledore call up the gas people for Hogwarts' Bunsen burners?? )

(I'm abandoning the idea of the previous post... for now)

There are strange moments of reflection that come about at the wildest times, when you don't expect them to. Washing the dishes, rearranging your closet, out on a jog.

Running, running away from something, from someone, from your home that is like a magnet and draws you back. You start off in good spirits, that this will actually be worth something to your body, and hell, maybe even your mind. Maybe, it will clear out all those things you don't want to think about. Or, maybe they'll come rushing back, because, well, what else is there to do when running than to think. You start out feeling good, realizing the hott guy's garage is wide open and wondering why I hadn't just thought of taking a jog around the neighborhood to see him, instead of going off on wild adventures in my mind of riding a bike which required a lot of work considering the bike was old and needed a new tire that I only just got around to fixing.

...I remembered. I was avoiding him. Yes, someone I don't know, who probably doesn't really know much about me, other than the fact I drive a dark blue corolla, live four houses down from him, and have a tall basketball-playing brother.

Then, you laugh at your silly self... the drama that never panned out into anything at all. the drama that lives in my mind where I live. Where I am the center of the universe and everything revolves around me. What a sad, sad world.

Finally, you reach the point where you think your legs, and mostly your heart are about to give, and slow to a steady walk. How much of life is like this? Sprint, sprint, walk, walk, catch breath, sprint, jog. How would I want to live? A jog? A walk? Definitely not a sprint. Maybe there should be facebook quiz about this. Which pace are you? ...maybe I'd be the only one to take it.

Somewhere along the line, you end up where you started, surprised, but relieved that you made one lap, figuring you could do one more... By now, the hott garage is closed, so you continue, avoiding frogs in the middle of the sidewalk. You think you see a lightning bug, but are in such a good jogging pace, you refuse to slow down and check. then you regret it, and think about going back, but by now you are too far gone, and its no longer worth it. Suddenly, your stomach can't take it, and you walk instead, slower, to the beat of the spice girls. Everything around you looks the same, you look forward and backwards, and are wondering if you actually passed the place you were supposed to turn while caught up in these petty thoughts. You realize your lost, in your own neighborhood... breath gets shorter, life speeds up.

You keep walking until you see a chinese looking man and a lady standing at the edge of the street acting like they are taking a walk together when really you see them searching for something. one of them raises their hand, and you are relieved to see them. when, all the while you were truly doing this to get out of their domain, you welcome it back with open arms, but never let them know.

do we just sorta ricochet off each other, just far enough to reach back?



why do I wonder about these things?

Hi! I'd like to introduce a new stamping community I made, called baz_stamps. It is all related to Baz Luhrman movies. If you're interested, come on and join!

I have a confession to make...I used to love Twilight. My mind couldn't see the empty, souless characters and horrible writing style. Instead it was wrapped around the intriguing plot and the absurb hope that a lot of fictional sparkly characters would show up on my doorstep. It wasn't until I read the wise words of Stephen King on the subject that reality sunk in. He compared the two authors J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Myer in an interview, and stated Myer "Can't write worth a darn."
At first I was appauled, of course. But after flipping through the pages of Twilight I made the shocking discovery that Mr. King was right. Shocked, I researched more reviews of the series and found many truths. For instance, Bella has no personality. She's just an empty shell that teens can put themselves into so they too can be loved by a stone hard sparkly vampire (A stone hard vampire would be most desired in normal circumstance, but unfortunately, this isn't the stone hard maturer audiences hoped for). I feel betrayed, and still do. Either Myer is a total scumbag and wrote the series to manipulate women into buying her novel or she's a complete idiot.
And one last thing...sparkles? WTF was she thinking about the SPARKLES?! Even when I was obsessed with the series I found this disturbing.