well behaved women

Okay. WOW. I just officially lost all hope for The Vampire Diaries. First of all? He's hideous. Second of all? HE'S NOT FUCKING ITALIAN. DAMON WAS NOT FUCKING CAUCASIAN. Okay, yeah, I'm mostly just whining because this thing is not attractive by any measure of the word and Damon was supposed to be magnetic, but yeah.

Okay, I officially have a reason to hate Stephenie Meyer now. I didn't really before--yeah, she's a bad writer, yeah, she's telling young girls that a horrific, abusive relationship is TWU LUV, not really my business--but OHBOY.

Now people's response to hearing about books that involve vampires seems to be 'yeah, read Twilight, never going near that again.' Yes, I think it's kind of a stupid way to behave in any circumstance, lumping everything within a certain genre together and this pushes my buttons especially hard because I'm so goddamn tired of people comparing people much more skilled and predating her to SM, but still. Because she's so goddamn horrible, she's actually managing to narrow the pool of potential consumers for other authors.

I once read an observation (and even I, myself, who rarely ventures out into fandom have seen this trend) that while people who read Harry Potter tended to widen their horizons and ask for advice on further booklists once they'd finished the series, Twilight's more vocal fans flaunt the fact that 'I don't read...' (whut? I've seen this about four times and it never fails to garner a double-take) 'twilight is the only book I've ever read!' Paraphrased for atrocious grammar and spelling. I've seen this more than ten times in discussions of books that venture into Twilight territory.

....like this is something to be proud of. Yeah.

ETA: On IJ, my mood image for infuriated has Yubaba with flames roaring out of her mouth. It cheered me up miraculously. If I'm easy to get down, at least I'm easy to cheer up.