Anyone else can't stand Twilight? v.4

What are you: anti? neutral? fan?

An anti	56.3%	[ 3287 ]
Neutral	25.3%	[ 1479 ]
A fan	7.9%	[ 459 ]
EDWARD'S SO HAWT!!!1!1apple	2.9%	[ 172 ]
Poll whore~	7.6%	[ 441 ]
Total Votes:			[ 5838 ]

[Javier Cross]

Alberic of Krufton

Javier Cross

So how long has it been since you last posted? emo

Military Fantasy, if done right, would never hurt anyone.

Here? Long long time. Trying to have a site presence again, dunno why. Real life is keeping me busy, but the Significant Other's gone away on leave for a while so I have nothing better to do. So ronery. crying

Depends on the type? Not sure if Warhammer 40k counts as military (they do like killing things with ridiculous weapons!) but I guess stuff like that has its own appeal. War and the military will always have a following, barring everyone in the world turning into a hippie.

Lovecraft is awesome. At least, I enjoy it. Makes a fine setting for board RPGs to boot, haha. Is it good reading? It's dry, sorta, but then you have fun little stories like Herbert West: Reanimator and At the Mountains of Madness and that one set in Egypt with the animal-headed people. Awesome stuff.

Poe's kinda the same way, style-wise, but then you'll have stories like The Spectacles and you wonder why he wasn't recognized as a comedian. There are a lot of more "classic" Poe shorts like The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, et cetera. Poetry, too, if I recall correctly.

Regarding literary vice popular lit... "Classic" novels are just the ones that were well-liked enough (by someone) to survive to today. Ever read The Three Musketeers? As fun a ride as any modern novel. Robinson Crusoe? 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Gone with the Wind? A Christmas Carol? War and Peace? Candide? Frankenstein? The Art of War? Journey to the West? Literary works can be culturally significant, or turning points for their genres (or marking the birth of new ones,) but mostly it's because they became, and remained, famous.

I bet Harry Potter will eventually be known as an important cultural milestone, phenomenon, something, because of its remarkable popularity and for its lasting and widespread impact. Twilight, on the other hand, will hopefully fall by the wayside as newer, more lasting novels come to the fore. Sure, it's popular now, but so was Paul Clifford back in the day; does anyone read that one anymore? Its legacy has become tied with the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, so there you go.

Anything I can do to help out?

Also, any other series that would qualify as the closest thing to legitimate military fantasy you can find?
All I got is Camp Half-Blood and The Dresden Files, but barring them? emo
Not many options I'd be able to recall.

[Alberic of Krufton]

Javier Cross

Anything I can do to help out?

Also, any other series that would qualify as the closest thing to legitimate military fantasy you can find?
All I got is Camp Half-Blood and The Dresden Files, but barring them? emo
Not many options I'd be able to recall.

I got ways to keep myself busy, in theory; Skype will have to help fill the gaping hole in my heart until mi amor returns from Illinois. emo

Haven't been in the fantasy game for some time now; if you'd asked about military sci-fi, I'd have you covered, at least somewhat. Fantasy... There's this one series I've heard good things about, regarding dragons and how one uses them in battle. Google tells me that the title of the series is Temeraire. Think Napoleonic Wars fought on dragonback. Seems to be well-received on Amazon, too. Haven't read it myself, but it's the first one that came to mind.

[Javier Cross]

Alberic of Krufton

Javier Cross

Anything I can do to help out?

Also, any other series that would qualify as the closest thing to legitimate military fantasy you can find?
All I got is Camp Half-Blood and The Dresden Files, but barring them? emo
Not many options I'd be able to recall.

I got ways to keep myself busy, in theory; Skype will have to help fill the gaping hole in my heart until mi amor returns from Illinois. emo

Haven't been in the fantasy game for some time now; if you'd asked about military sci-fi, I'd have you covered, at least somewhat. Fantasy... There's this one series I've heard good things about, regarding dragons and how one uses them in battle. Google tells me that the title of the series is Temeraire. Think Napoleonic Wars fought on dragonback. Seems to be well-received on Amazon, too. Haven't read it myself, but it's the first one that came to mind.

I have a facebook, and I even run a home forum site as well, but barring those?
I feel alone whenever I am not with company.

Why is it that Military Fantasy is so rare? emo

[Reniefuwa]

Belethiel

NightfallDuet

I think the reason why people rewarded mediocrity is because of the money. Everyone's a greedy b*****d, and whatever is popular will get the money. Like with Twilight, Fifty Shades of Gaston Grey is gaining attention because it's the new thing; though, erotica's been around forever so it's nothing new.

Erotica's never been appealing to me because I don't really care for the sex aspect of it. Too much sex means the author got bored and was horny. That's all I have to say.

On a really bored note: THEY LOOK SO MYSTERIOUSSS AND BADASSZZZZ

I found that on LiveJournal today. xD

I guess people don't know what quality is anymore since we're exposed to so much crap. ._.

Oh gawd.... are we going to get flooded by erotica now? gonk Oh well... there's YA lit still...

Ugh. I will never read any erotica. It'll probably gross me out, I don't want to hear about anyone's sexual fantasies. I won't even write about sex, I'll eternally skip over it. I'm not into censorship, but I know where to draw the line... most of the time, a sex scene doesn't add to the story.

I don't really understand how that series is so popular. Even disregarding the subject matter, it's just...poorly written. As I've said elsewhere, give me five minutes and high-speed internet and I could find you fifty stories on the same subject that are of better quality, and even have chapters so they have a "novel" feel. Plus, the author has no idea what she's talking about.

[Harry Copperfield Dresden]

Speaking on fanfics...((sorta)) I have a book called "defy not the heart" ((Could you ask for a more generic love story name?)) It is basically written like the ultimate Miroku and Kagome fanfic from Inuyasha.... no really. I'm dead serious, I'm convinced that this book was written much like Fifty shades of Grey, one key difference is that this book only has about two sex scenes, and it is actually written by a fairly accomplished author. This book though different as Fushi Yugi and Inuyasha, as to Inuyasha and the book... rather then just basically switching the names and taking away all the 'vampire' bullshit.
Here it is in amazon and I bought this book when it basically came out in 2006. Yeah... I am sure that this is a Inuyasha/Fushi Yugi thing... because it is just basically EXACTLY like it was made from that book. Just look at the description, "La la, future girl with special all powerful jewel goes back in time where big bad wants said jewel to ******** up the world." I've been holding in this sort of fact almost ever since I got the book and read it. ((One more thing, the sex scenes are more believable, and more natural...to an extent.))