Kippur's Continuing Coverage...

[kippurbird]

So, posted Edward's Seduction up on DeviantArt. Got some of the usual sort of replies of "I like it" and "This is SO the real Edward" etc. Voices of reasonable people.

Then! I got this one:

Well i really really liked Twilight and though i dont agree with you i like the way this story was constructed ... but come on you cant blame Edward he has waited like over 100 years for bella to come around and he does have a right to be overprotective after what with James Victoria and the Volturi... but i think the fictional love between them is real ^^ cuz they stick to gether through it all nd you know Bella would be stalkr like if she where the super stealthy Vampire ^^

I really want to shake people sometimes. Really.

Exactly why does waiting over a hundred years exclude you from responsibility of acting properly? And how is stalking someone acting over protective? Especially before they know they need to at over protective. Etc.

My response:

I'm glad you liked the story, even if you didn't like the way I portrayed them.

But, yes I do think I can blame Edward. He didn't have to wait a hundred years. And even if he did wait, there's over protective and there's what he did. Not only that, but he was doing it BEFORE the Volturi and James showed up. He basically violated her privacy for his own wants and whims. Which is akin to rape.

Perhaps to bring this point around, would you mind if it was say Mike or Tyler doing the sitting in the bedroom watching her?

And even if Bella was a super stealthy vampire and did that to Edward it'd still be wrong. It'd still be a violation of Edward's privacy.

Yet to hear a response back.

Comments

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

... That brings up a very good question. Why IS this stuff considered YA? Just because there's no real sex until the series is closer to the end? Because Bella is supposedly a teenager? Because kids have less of a cultivated taste?

I haven't read many romance novels (especially nothing recent) but I do know a lot of new romance coming out these days is of the supernatural nature. It has become quite a trend, in my opinion. (Though I can't blame them... shapeshifters are one of the things I'd consider hot but those books are still mostly the same formula. Most romance tends to follow a formula.)