To be clear, that infamous video essay about "owing Stephenie Meyer an apology" was, in fact, balls, and the idea that she was unjustly despised on even selective premises is balls
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I think she was despised for some unfair reasons. Which if anything meant we were less able to despise her for the right reasons, of which there are approximately one billion, seven hundred twenty two million, four hundred sixty seven thousand, one hundred sixty nine.
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Replying to @machineiv @Nymphomachy
This is fair, yeah. People were sometimes misogynist in their criticism of her, and that's never cool even when the person is very bad. Which Meyer is. Very bad. Starting with the fact that she's a fucking Mormon, and proceeding rapidly from there.
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
See also: Critique that just focuses on the aesthetics of her vampire mythology. Or acting like “old vampire obsessed with young woman” is somehow unique to the genre.
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Replying to @machineiv @iridienne
Ehhhhh, I think some of the "aesthetics" criticisms were tied to less well-articulated complaints about Meyer's worldbuilding choices (e.g., vamps in her setting are basically magical androids that run on blood, but words like "vampire" and "coven" are obvious marketing darlings)
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This got reduced by most of the populous into a really facile derision toward the idea of "sparkly vampires", but the core argument—"this magical species sparkles because they're effectively _carved out of quartz_ and that element is obfuscated by mandatory gothness" is sound
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Honestly I think making up an idea that has very little to do with classical vampires but calling them vampires anyway is fine Who cares, it's all made up
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Well, to be clear, it's annoying because ultimately Meyer came up with a _more interesting_ (or at least much less explored) idea than simply "vampires" and rather than fully unpack or explore that achievement she _hid_ it behind brazenly crowd-pleasing terminology.
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Sure, but I don't think that was marketing, I think she herself was attached to the transgressive forbidden nature of the term "vampire"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Her whole original inspiration was that dream she had where Edward makes Bella call him a vampire and everything The whole core of their dynamic is his uncontrollable hunger
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Another really good metaphor for Mormonism, tbh!
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