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definitelyevil: enigmaticagentalice: fuckyeahdiomedes: keep-me-wild: thefourteenthdoctor: the-unpopular-opinions: Yes, it’s about sparkly vampires and werewolves fighting over a girl. Yes, normal vampires don’t sparkle..I get it. As a Twilight fan, I’ve heard it all. Why do Harry Potter fans and Hunger Games fans, etc, bash on it so much? It’s a different genre, so it’s not like it’s competing with HP. That would be a bit different. It’s the haters of the saga that make Twilight fans embarassed to be Twilight fans. And the books are so much better than the movies. And give it a chance before you hate and call it gay. It’s not gay. We all have different intrests, deal with it and accept me for who I am instead of judging me for what I like. Oh, and for the record, I am a Hunger Games fan too. nose-stuck-in-a-bookk.tumblr.com You’re right… it’s not gay… it’s paedophilia.  People wouldn’t hate it so much if it wasn’t so problematic against women’s rights and the whole pedophilia issue. Don’t forget the abusive relationship part. Yes, OP has rather missed the point. Sparkly vampires are inherently silly, sure, but that’s not the problem. I like a lot of silly things myself! You want to read about a sparkly vampire love story, I won’t stop you. My problem with Twilight, and why I (and a whole lot of other people) ‘hate on it’ is the sexism, racism, glorification of abusive relationships, thinly veiled religious propaganda, highly questionable morality on the part of the protagonists, constant undermining of women’s rights, worrying subtext on vital and complex issues such as rape and abortion, and the fact that all this shit is aimed at pre-teen girls. The fact that there might be young people growing up today who think that removing your girlfriend’s car engine so that she can’t visit her friend is a romantic gesture, scares me. The fact that a guy falls in love with a baby and then grooms her throughout infancy to love him, even giving her a ‘promise ring’ when she is still a child and this is seen as a healthy relationship, scares me. The fact that at one point two of the male ‘heroes’ have a conversation about forcibly knocking a girl out with drugs and aborting her baby without her consent, scares me. The fact that this series of books is so popular really fucking scares me. As someone who has read all of them, I have nothing but anger and contempt for the series. So no, I won’t ‘judge you for what you like’. I will however, continue judging the shit out of these books, and I will not stop openly speaking out about how terrible and damaging they are. I had no idea about the forcibly aborting her baby part, that’s absolutely disgusting, Stephanie Meyer should be ashamed of herself.
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thefourteenthdoctor:

the-unpopular-opinions:

Yes, it’s about sparkly vampires and werewolves fighting over a girl. Yes, normal vampires don’t sparkle..I get it. As a Twilight fan, I’ve heard it all.

Why do Harry Potter fans and Hunger Games fans, etc, bash on it so much? It’s a different genre, so it’s not like it’s competing with HP. That would be a bit different.

It’s the haters of the saga that make Twilight fans embarassed to be Twilight fans. And the books are so much better than the movies. And give it a chance before you hate and call it gay. It’s not gay.

We all have different intrests, deal with it and accept me for who I am instead of judging me for what I like.

Oh, and for the record, I am a Hunger Games fan too.

nose-stuck-in-a-bookk.tumblr.com

You’re right… it’s not gay… it’s paedophilia. 

People wouldn’t hate it so much if it wasn’t so problematic against women’s rights and the whole pedophilia issue.

Don’t forget the abusive relationship part.

Yes, OP has rather missed the point. Sparkly vampires are inherently silly, sure, but that’s not the problem. I like a lot of silly things myself! You want to read about a sparkly vampire love story, I won’t stop you.

My problem with Twilight, and why I (and a whole lot of other people) ‘hate on it’ is the sexism, racism, glorification of abusive relationships, thinly veiled religious propaganda, highly questionable morality on the part of the protagonists, constant undermining of women’s rights, worrying subtext on vital and complex issues such as rape and abortion, and the fact that all this shit is aimed at pre-teen girls.

The fact that there might be young people growing up today who think that removing your girlfriend’s car engine so that she can’t visit her friend is a romantic gesture, scares me.

The fact that a guy falls in love with a baby and then grooms her throughout infancy to love him, even giving her a ‘promise ring’ when she is still a child and this is seen as a healthy relationship, scares me.

The fact that at one point two of the male ‘heroes’ have a conversation about forcibly knocking a girl out with drugs and aborting her baby without her consent, scares me.

The fact that this series of books is so popular really fucking scares me. As someone who has read all of them, I have nothing but anger and contempt for the series. So no, I won’t ‘judge you for what you like’. I will however, continue judging the shit out of these books, and I will not stop openly speaking out about how terrible and damaging they are.

I had no idea about the forcibly aborting her baby part, that’s absolutely disgusting, Stephanie Meyer should be ashamed of herself.

This is a constant issue for me, since I have a pretty severe mold allergy. What makes it worse, though, is that I also have PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease); there’s a whole class of drugs out there — among antibiotics and pain meds especially — that I simply cannot take because they are too harmful to my kidneys, and they WILL trigger massive pain and other problems. Each and EVERY time I get an infection (which I am prone to do, because of the PKD), it becomes a huge production trying to find a medication that it safe for me to take. Most of the time, I need to remind people that no, I can’t take penicillin, and no, I can’t take most of the others, either. Ugh. chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Top text reads: “Doctor prescribes antibiotics for recent infection” Bottom text reads: “forgets you’re allergic to penicillin”] My mother was /deathly/ allergic. … He’s only been seeing me for 6 years. It’s in all my files.
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This is a constant issue for me, since I have a pretty severe mold allergy. What makes it worse, though, is that I also have PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease); there’s a whole class of drugs out there — among antibiotics and pain meds especially — that I simply cannot take because they are too harmful to my kidneys, and they WILL trigger massive pain and other problems.

Each and EVERY time I get an infection (which I am prone to do, because of the PKD), it becomes a huge production trying to find a medication that it safe for me to take. Most of the time, I need to remind people that no, I can’t take penicillin, and no, I can’t take most of the others, either. Ugh.

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Top text reads: “Doctor prescribes antibiotics for recent infection” Bottom text reads: “forgets you’re allergic to penicillin”]


My mother was /deathly/ allergic.

… He’s only been seeing me for 6 years. It’s in all my files.

chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “’You can do anything if you set your mind to it.’ Oh right, I must not want to be healthy badly enough..”] It is so very frustrating when people ask about your future and you explain to them why you can’t work, and this is the response. I know it’s often not meant to be insulting but encouraging instead, but I hate being told how I am negative when I’m trying to explain that it’s not as easy as wanting it badly enough. I would want to be healthy and be able to work fulltime more than anything, but it’s just not in the cards for me. And that’s okay, I can deal with that, but I can’t deal with people who make me feel like I’m not trying hard enough when it’s sometimes a struggle to even get out of bed in the morning.
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chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “’You can do anything if you set your mind to it.’ Oh right, I must not want to be healthy badly enough..”]

It is so very frustrating when people ask about your future and you explain to them why you can’t work, and this is the response. I know it’s often not meant to be insulting but encouraging instead, but I hate being told how I am negative when I’m trying to explain that it’s not as easy as wanting it badly enough. I would want to be healthy and be able to work fulltime more than anything, but it’s just not in the cards for me. And that’s okay, I can deal with that, but I can’t deal with people who make me feel like I’m not trying hard enough when it’s sometimes a struggle to even get out of bed in the morning.

Being Blog: Belonging to Each Other in Our Darkness: I Am Lawrence Brewer, I Am Troy Davis

Powerful, and thought-provoking.

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by Sarah Stockton Howell, guest contributor

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Wednesday night at 11:08, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a man widely believed to be innocent. A last-minute delay went to the Supreme Court, where a stay of execution was…

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