Gorgeous analytical article about Twilight and teenage-girlhood from The Atlantic:
What Girls Want by Caitlin Flanagan
In other news...I barely have access to my computer right now. Back to trying to work!
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My quick first take on the Twilight movie (from midnight screening, last night, yay.)
I actually....rather....loved it.
XD
YAY!
( A few, not too spoilerish first impressions )
So in general, I just enjoyed the movie all over.
For an interesting sample of the viewing population, however:
My sister and two of her friends, all fans who loved the books, didn't like the movie--it didn't work for them, was too awkward and unconvincing.
My sister-in-law and myself, book lovers both, really enjoyed it and thought it rather wonderful.
And one of my sister's friends, who had never read the books, found it fantastic!! She was gasping and hyperventilating and being emotionally effected throughout the entire thing like she had been a pre-devoted preteen. XD lol She's totally going to read the books now.
So that's encouraging. If the girls and women who haven't read the books yet (and are of the romantic bent that's needed to love this stuff) find it wonderful, then the movie really did it's job.
I totally need to see it again. Like, today, matinee showing.
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Breaking Dawn Spoilers
In the fandom/media blitz after Breaking Dawn, I sketched some of our favorite monsters hunting. All ink, no color.
( Breaking Dawn Spoiler Sketches )
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*sigh* Well, my fandom keeps ESPLODING.
August 2008, the month Twilight fandom went crazy at least once each week.
Stephenie Meyer has just posted the first Twelve Chapters of Midnight Sun (Twilight from Edward's perspective) onto her website for everyone to read. (and it's playlist.)
I'm rather amazed, but actually:
Thank you, Stephenie, for these chapters. They are lovely to have, and fantastic to read. I hope after you've gone and worked on music videos and other novels and feel better about everything, that you'll feel up to writing the rest of it. Because there is a whole lot of awesomeness in these 264 pages.
Truly, y'all, much wonderfulness going on in Midnight Sun, go save the pdf onto your harddrive (as long as her site can handle the traffic) and enjoy it!
"Cannonball!", Stalker!Edward, and telepathic-vampire matchmaking! YAY! XD
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In a Shocktillyoudrop interview, Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter/adapter for the Twilight movie, just said the about the coolest thing about Breaking Dawn that I've heard yet.
"I'm right in the middle of Breaking Dawn... So far I'm loving it. Every time I turn the page I'm like, Wow, she is really going there?! She just took the reins off. It's like the first three books were restraint, restraint, restraint and suddenly she's going hog wild. It's such a bold thing to do, for a writer of a beloved series to go This is my world and I'm taking it here. I'm pulling the doors back and letting everyone look in. It's incredibly satisfying after these books full of mystery."
The longer I go, thinking about Breaking Dawn, the more I'm liking it. That doesn't mean I didn't freak out for a week, but, yes, I'm really liking it. Respect.
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I've been tinkering with this Breaking Dawn review for almost two weeks now. I've read many responses to Breaking Dawn, and read/listened to everything Stephenie Meyer has said about it since it was released. I have a lot to talk about, and despite the length, I don't talk about everything I could. :)
My basic experience reading Breaking Dawn:
Total shock that she took the story where she did through Books 1 & 2, and then finally, really enjoying Book 3, when she got the story to the place where I wanted to be. And then the end was Extremely, Idyllically Happy (on the side of too happy, but,) HAPPY.
On my second third read-through (listen-through, audiobooks are love), I'm really enjoying it. Now that I'm used to the ideas brought out.
I understand why so many disliked it. I also understand why Stephenie did it.
This series has always been Wish Fulfillment. The Ultimate Untouchable Guy falls in love with Ordinary Girl, and after lots of trials, they have the Happiest Ending Possible. A complete fairytale.
So why did we react so badly? I think one reason is because the statement and theme Stephenie seemed to be developing in the earlier three books was not actually what she was going for.
SPOILERS!!
( Breaking Dawn: why so many hate it, and why I've come to terms with it )
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PurpleRebecca's "Breaking Dawn" Fanart Countdown
0 Days! Edward/Bella
Plus all the countdown art, posted at once. (image heavy)
Only a few short hours till Breaking Dawn is in our eager little hands. I'm very excited and nervous! But I've decided....I trust Stephenie Meyer. :)
( Edward/Bella fanart, Breaking Dawn Countdown full post )
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PurpleRebecca's "Breaking Dawn" Fanart Countdown
1 Day! Esme and Carlisle and the whole Cullen portrait series combined.
Midnight Release Party, here I come!
( Esme/Carlisle fanart, 1 day till Breaking Dawn! )
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PurpleRebecca's "Breaking Dawn" Fanart Countdown
2 Days! Alice and Jasper and some additional sketches
Or 1 day, & 23 hours....Whoohoo!! Why isn't it Friday yet?
( Alice/Jasper fanart, 2 days till Breaking Dawn! )
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PurpleRebecca's "Breaking Dawn" Fanart Countdown
3 Days! The Wolf Pack
Or 2 days, & 21 hours....which is really 3 days.
( Wolf Pack fanart, 3 days till Breaking Dawn! )
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PurpleRebecca's "Breaking Dawn" Fanart Countdown
4 Days! Emmett & Rosalie
Or 3 days, & 23 hours....which is really 4 days.
( Rosalie & Emmett fanart, 4 days till Breaking Dawn! )
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The final book of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series, Breaking Dawn, comes out in 5 days! (or 4, depending on how you're counting).
In anticipatory celebration, I'm going to post a fanart countdown, with new Twilight fanart everyday til Saturday, August 2nd. Check back everyday for new Twilight art!
PurpleRebecca's "Breaking Dawn" Fanart Countdown
5 Days! Edward and Bella
( Edward and Bella fanart, 5 days till Breaking Dawn! )
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Report -- Stephenie Meyer Host Signing - Houston
I got out of work by 5pm and got to the high school across Houston sometime after 6pm. I was 3 rows from the back, and had something of a 3.5 hour wait to make it to Stephenie to get my book signed after she spoke. I brought my hardcover copy of Eclipse to be signed, along with my copy of the Host.
This was my view of Stephenie:
You can hear what she said through the lexicon and youtube, with footage taken by people who were much closer then me:
http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/?p=914
I completely love and ADORE Stephenie Meyer. Everything I've read and seen, everytime she talks, I'm impressed at how fabulous, kind, and real she is. She's just a fangirl like the rest of us, along with being a wonderful writer and adorable person. Love you, Stephenie!
( Report, ART I gave to Stephenie, and non-spoiler Host verdict )
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Edward is a vampire who "falls in love with a mortal and destroys both of their lives, in a romantic and loving way."
--Robert Pattinson, in a recently-released AP interview and video: here
Haahaha! Total glee. Thank you for that, Robert.
I'm currently caught in the grips of Twilight obsession, and for my daily fix I have these sites in a quick-loading Firefox bookmark folder:
http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/
http://www.bellaandedward.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/lion_lamb/
http://twilightmomsforums.unrealblogs.com/
http://hisgoldeneyes.com/
I'm pretty sure that not much slips by me in the world of Twi-movie news. *is dork*
And my opinion? I had some concerns earlier, but everything I've seen so far just gets me more and more excited. I think (and hope and pray) that this movie is going to be wonderful.
And I ADORE Robert Pattinson as Edward. I've always had a hard time picturing Edward (one reason I tried to draw him), but when they announced Rob's casting, it was a sudden snap of "YES THAT IS IT!!"
Twilight fanart!!
A Twilight Meme, done slowly and with love. Full of SPOILERS.
Twilight Meme by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
Edward Cullen and Light Yagami face off. Because it needed to be done. XD
Light Edward by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
PE exchange pics:
PE Rd. 62 - Culture Shock's Alec & Brooke for Reed Hawker
PE Blind Lighting Round: Talina for Bleupencil
PE: Talina for Bleupencil by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
My coppermine gallery isn't letting me upload right now, so half of these are only available on Deviantart atm. I can't figure out how to fix the gallery and it is bugging me greatly. :(
Deviantart has catagory folders now, so all my Twilight fanart can be found there easily: http://purplerebecca.deviantart.com/gallery/#Twilight
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Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse", book 3 of the Twilight series, comes out today. XD
In celebration, I set my bum down and actually finished my painterly portrait of Edward I've had on my harddrive for months now.
Edward Cullen Hates Me.
From Chapter 1, 'First Sight', of the first novel, "Twilight".
1280x1024 wallpaper size available to download off deviantart.
photoshop, references from all over the internet, too many hours.
Watercolors I posted earlier but never blogged about:
 
I've been on a Potter high and been reading Snape fanfic again. Love. Why is it that finding a good romantic fanfiction seems to be so much easier then finding a professionally published romance novel that doesn't irritate the heck out of me?
Am I more tolerate of fanfic because I expect lots of junk before the gold? Or are romance novels really just lots of lust, bad choices, and bad writing? Where am I supposed to get my romantic fix if everything that's supposed to accomplish it is just drivel? Back to the fic I go!
Last night I got a fabulous idea for my next original comic/graphic novel project:
I'm going to take two great concepts that deserve more exploring, one pulled from fanfiction, and another from an obnoxious romance novel I read recently, and put them together into a scifi romance with no supernatural elements. Which means I'll have to actually do research into the physics behind their spacetravel, darnit. But it'll be mostly romance, and it'll be great. XD Look for it in another 10 years or so. :P
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Been running around all over the last week or so, and before that, dealing with some really obnoxious artist block. This piece hopefully broke it, and if I get some time, maybe I can get some other art out too.
First posted Twilight Fanart:
Bella and Edward
ink, watercolor, and bit of gauche
From Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, likely the most romantic story written in the last decade. LOVE these two. *_____*
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Hope everybody had a lovely Easter!
Last Thursday I went with my best friend Junebug and her sister to see WICKED in Houston.
Oh, so fabulous. XDDDD DeFYing GRAVITY!
After hearing about it all over livej, I picked up a copy of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" last week. I usually avoid anything of the "Teen Vampire Romance" genre (3 novels of Amelia Atwater Rhodes' Mary Sue glorifications having finally pushed me over the edge of disgust with anything with the word 'vampire' in it), but all the fangirling and some very warm recommendations got me curious. After visiting Stephenie Meyer's website and discovering that she is an LDS mom who graduated from BYU (whoohoo!), that she also pays warm and friendly attention to her fanbase, and is a-round adorable and fabulous, I just had to read it.
Bella, awkward, shy, angsty and depressive, is a very sympathetic character midst all the angst and I quite love her. Edward, as I expected, is too perfect, and I wasn't entirely convinced as to why he would fall in love with Bella, (me being one who has lost all credulity when it comes to beings with an almost incontrollable urge eat something ever being able to be sexually or romantically attracted to that thing, and also being one who doesn't find wanting to be eaten a turn on. :} ) We WANT Edward to fall in love with her, however, and he does everything to show that he is in love, so, like with all happy shippy fanfiction, we go with it.
The Cullens rock in general, Alice in particular, and I want more of all of their characters. Twilight is wonderfully written, a fun, enjoyable ride, with many scenes that fill my heart with girly glee. At the end I felt it was great stuff, but not fandom (or fangirl) inducing to myself. I had had plenty of spoiler warnings about the 2nd book from a friend who despises it, so I was going to wait for the library copy to become available before I would read New Moon.
After two days I caved and went out and bought it.
Yep, I've been caught.
Having been so warned and spoiled about most of the plot of New Moon (reading the 3rd book summary teaser spoils one of the major mysteries of book 2), I was able to take its turns in stride and actually enjoy it. It is quite wonderful. After reading through all the online info available about why Stephenie did what she did, I think the major plot weakness of the book was...( New Moon SPOILERS )
/end spoilers
So, after reading the first two books everyone, head over to Stephenie's website and read the 4 fabulous chapters she has up from other characters' pov's, including 2 in Edward's point of view. They are WONDERFUL and make everything that mysterious pretty boy does make so much more sense. Generally I wouldn't go for it, but I'm really looking forward to reading her version of Twilight in Edward's pov, Midnight Sun. He's hard to understand, and just chapter 1 made everything click just so much more.
ANYways. Yup, I'm a total fangirl. I happily await everything you write in the future, Stephenie! ^__^
I have this painting of Edward IN my HEAD that I've been trying to get out and it's not coming. GWAH!!!
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