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[Darvi]

Speaking of FATAL and Twilight, G-Flex went through the character creation process and posted (most of) the results in IRC. Kind of off-topic since I find people suffering hilarious.

Also, some people apparently think Cullen can beat the freaking God Emperor. Maybe if they're doing a sparkle-off.

More realistic, too. :V

REALISM

[Flying Dice]

Speaking of FATAL and Twilight, G-Flex went through the character creation process and posted (most of) the results in IRC. Kind of off-topic since I find people suffering hilarious.

Also, some people apparently think Cullen can beat the freaking God Emperor. Maybe if they're doing a sparkle-off.

*BLAM!*

More realistic, too. :V

REALISM

I don't think it's inaccurate to say that FATAL is closer to providing a realistic model of romantic relationships than Twilight. Sort of like how it would be easier to drive your car the galactic core than to the Andromeda galaxy.

[Frumple]

Also, some people apparently think Cullen can beat the freaking God Emperor. Maybe if they're doing a sparkle-off.

One sparkles. The other emits multitudinous motes of screaming daemonflesh torn from the firmament of another reality. Not only would the colors-that-are-not-colors emitted by warpstuff be infinitely more fabulous than Cullen's sparkles, each and every one of them would turn C's body into a gibbering mass of writhing pain.

God Emperor of Mankind. Even His sparkles stand victorious over the unclean.

[Sirus]

Speaking of FATAL and Twilight,Also, some people apparently think Cullen can beat the freaking God Emperor. Maybe if they're doing a sparkle-off.

HERESY

[Xantalos]

Speaking of FATAL and Twilight,Also, some people apparently think Cullen can beat the freaking God Emperor. Maybe if they're doing a sparkle-off.

HERESY

Indeed. I knew the guy, and his hair was almost worthy of Old Spice Guy.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Emps would wipe out Cullen and his entire heretical abhuman geneline for corrupting the Holy Human Form.

[Putnam]

Eh, Dracula's only about as hard a read as any other book from that time. Frankenstein is probably the hardest fiction I've ever read (not due to me finding it hard, but due to the fact that I can recognize things as easier or harder reading).

[Xantalos]

Emps would wipe out Cullen and his entire heretical abhuman geneline for corrupting the Holy Human Form.

Know what I'd like to see? The vampires from Blindsight in 40k.

[Tiruin]

I didn't like the story that much...

Anyway: Stress
And me seeing others advertising something wholly unrelated on a different board in the forum--prods my 'omg what is happening' button so hard.

And that thing on IRC. FATAL is. . .
Ugh.

Dracula was nice though. Frankenstein was good

[Parsely]

Emps would wipe out Cullen and his entire heretical abhuman geneline for corrupting the Holy Human Form.

Know what I'd like to see? The vampires from Blindsight in 40k.

I listened to that whole thing last night. It was so cool you're the coolest Xantalos omg like fuuu~

[Sirus]

Emps would wipe out Cullen and his entire heretical abhuman geneline for corrupting the Holy Human Form.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some form of fanfiction out there describing this exact situation out there.

[SalmonGod]

As much as I hate Twilight, as a modern pleasure novel, it IS. The writing is impenetrable, the pace is extremely slow, and the presentation is extremely odd. The story itself isn't bad (based on the Cliff's Notes), but it is almost impossible to FIND the damn story.  It certainly has greater literary merit, and is justly famed as the progenitor of modern vampire fiction, but it isn't a fun read.

A sample of one of the easier portions of the text:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I stood in silence where I was, for I did not know what to do. Of bell or knocker there was no sign; through these frowning walls and dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate. The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked? Was this a customary incident in the life of a solicitor’s clerk sent out to explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner? Solicitor’s clerk! Mina would not like that. Solicitor—for just before leaving London I got word that my examination was successful; and I am now a full-blown solicitor! I began to rub my eyes and pinch myself to see if I were awake. It all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me, and I expected that I should suddenly awake, and find myself at home, with the dawn struggling in through the windows, as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork. But my flesh answered the pinching test, and my eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians. All I could do now was to be patient, and to wait the coming of the morning.
Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation:—
“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!” He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice—more like the hand of a dead than a living man. Again he said:—
“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!” The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking; so to make sure, I said interrogatively:—
“Count Dracula?” He bowed in a courtly way as he replied:—
“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.” As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage; he had carried it in before I could forestall him. I protested but he insisted:—

I had to read that ten times before I really understood it, and the exceedingly non-standard  conversational style is extremely jarring. The complaints are not without merit.

Another here who didn't have any trouble reading that passage.  Actually enjoyed it.  Don't know why it never occurred to me before that I should read Dracula, as a bit of a culture geek and someone who enjoys macabre horror, but now it has.

[Neonivek]

The secret to the author of Twilight is that in terms of author skills she is a joke.

In terms of knowing what her audience likes, she is a grand master.

[Mr Space Cat]

Eh, Dracula's only about as hard a read as any other book from that time. Frankenstein is probably the hardest fiction I've ever read (not due to me finding it hard, but due to the fact that I can recognize things as easier or harder reading).

Oh man, I remember reading Frankenstein when I was younger (ten maybe? eleven?) Most of what I remember from the book is just a blur of text. Ending was cool though.

First time I read Dracula was in 8th grade at age 13; I understood it entirely, although at times it was kinda uninteresting. I've re-read Dracula several times. I still haven't tried re-reading Frankenstein.

[Projeck37]

My friend is feeling super suicidal and I feel hopeless, knowing that I can do absolutely nothing besides trying to comfort them. It just makes it worse that they just shove off my comfort and deny everything I say..