November 28th, 2009
New Moon
This is to all the chicks who lets their men keep their man cards.
I salute you *tear*
Whoops! Lost my man card.
Which Graduate shirt do you like better?
Total Voters: 29
Loading ...This is to all the chicks who lets their men keep their man cards.
I salute you *tear*
Whoops! Lost my man card.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Last panel, is that a tear or a nosebleed? Coz both apply at that moment.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Watched New Moon with my gf. The harsh thing about this is that I scored free tickets for her pa. Hay naku, my mancard’s in the bin. Along with my dignity.
November 28th, 2009 at 8:13 am
better to read the book, I’d say. better yet, download a free e-book. It’s not worth it to see on the big screen.
November 28th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Pcow: I’m sure the way you appreciated her gratitude qualifies you to keep your mancard.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Phoebe: No.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
hehehe, watched the movie, found it boring, but damn lotsa hot chicks… Didn’t lose my mancard, got new numbers….
November 28th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I’m sorry I can’t be the right kind of idiot for you, Bella…. Jacob
November 28th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Chompy rocks!
K: kudos on finding a way to keep your mancard even if you watched new moon.
I think the movie would be so much better if jacob and edward just made out.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
K: Sure you did.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Pcow: Are you telling me that I got your Mancard by default simply because I REFUSE to have anything to do with Twilight? Astig!!!!
Also: click my name to go to a post of pride. Although I doubt the writer knew that it was a Filipina who made the macro.
November 28th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Mary didn’t know you were a fujyoushi just like my sister. heh I still get to keep my mancard I think
November 28th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Eize loved the macro kaso I hate HP as well I prefer my wizards to be several hundred years old, with battered hats or young red-headed girls who are slightly flat-chested, has spells that can level several mountain ranges and has an appetite that wouldn’t appear strange to Saiyajins
November 28th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
No plans of watching it. For the record, I am neither with Team Edward nor Team Jacob.
Walking the Path of Day, the man who will hunt them all.
November 29th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
It’s that “mangy mutt” that made the movie. Damn underaged sixpack…
November 29th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Should Blade go after these wussy vampires? Or are they a waste of his time?
November 29th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Blade would have made the movie more exciting but more short. Another scenario would be he walks away from Edward leaving him with a stake through the heart after a quick & effortless fight. The Daywalker’s words as he leaves would probably be: “Not a great way to kill time.”
Anyone else want to Walk the path of Blade to hunt them all?
November 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
i love new moon!
ang kept on looking at jacob’s pecs!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
November 29th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Don’t knock ‘em yet, Mr. L; they have backup:
http://zfiledh.livejournal.com/270863.html
BACKUP DANCERS!!!!
November 29th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Jiro: At least JK Rowling could write.
Targs: Of course you did.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:25 am
PCow: Meyer may not be the best writer I’ve come across, but damn! that is the most addictive crap I’ve read in a long while. I tore through most of the 4 books in the past 5 nights, going to sleep only when the sky started going pink–not a good idea as my workday starts at 7am. It’s like going for broke at a dessert bar, everything’s too sweet and you know you’re going to have a bad chocolate hangover later, but you just can’t put the spoon down.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:35 am
psychocow: With that much ‘influence’ *coughplagiarismcouch* anyone could write.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Jiro: The hallucinogenic type of influence? Please–even Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart think the books are ludicrous.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:46 am
About the Twilight series (sorry for the double post). And what, pray tell, is your definition of plagiarism?
November 30th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Eize: I think technically, if you cite the source and put enough quotation marks, it’s no longer considered plagarism, in a legal sense, anyway.
November 30th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Eize not gonna go explaining my side to a fan of HP so let’s leave it as my personal opinion although I still believe a lot of stuff in HP was lifted from Gaiman’s Book of Magic series among other stuff…
November 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Jiro: There is no such thing as an original concept anymore. Just original combinations of said concepts.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Bwahahaha!
Ang seseryoso ng mga tao dito!
Tsaka puro English!
November 30th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Jiro: Please read this–
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/04/fair-use-and-other-things.html
December 1st, 2009 at 7:04 am
Never liked the books, never saw the movies. so I don’t really get what the fuss is all about.
December 1st, 2009 at 8:12 am
Krissy: don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. Any ’sissy’ book that is hardcore enough to get PCow’s attention has my respect.
Jiro: the books are written for entertainment, right? so originality shouldn’t really be the primary concern here. Sidney Sheldon has about 5 plots (that I can spot) he alternates throughout his book,s and lots of series (Perry Mason, Nancy Drew, etc) are pretty much formulaic but I enjoy them anyway. If you want originality in entertainment every single time, then it’s almost pointless to watch TV and movies.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:01 am
My brother reports in one theater, as Jacob takes his shirt off, a female audience member gasped loudly, “OH MY GOD.”
The whole theater erupter into laughter. OMG, indeed.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:01 am
My brother reports in one theater, as Jacob takes his shirt off, a female audience member gasped loudly, “OH MY GOD.”
The whole theater erupted into laughter. OMG, indeed.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:36 am
How about a “Paranormal Activity” spoof? or is it in the works
December 1st, 2009 at 11:10 am
Phoebe: Literature is SRS BZNZ. XD
December 1st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Krissy: Wrong. You actually understand what the fuss is all about, but for whatever reason you’re trying to detach yourself from the reality of the situation. Because, if you really didn’t give a sh*t, you wouldn’t post.
Phoebe: True, to a certain extent. Remember, original concepts, almost non-existent; original combinations, limitless.
December 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Hold on while I write a zombie love story in novel format. The zombies will twinkle in moonlight!
December 1st, 2009 at 3:14 pm
PCow: Exactly. it doesn’t make much sense to keep re-inventing the wheel. Little improvements and adapting its uses to as many applications as allowable is far more profitable.
Eize: Cool. Looking forward to it.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
New Moon? Isn’t the entire Twilight saga just a rehash of the old Vampire-human love story with a few kinks thrown in for the pleasure of young hormonal girls?
No way does it compare with the writing of Tolkien, or Shakespeare, or even Rowling as a contemporary.
As we say in FF.net, “It’s like one bad fanfic…”
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:51 am
@Pcow: I didn’t say I don’t give a sh*t. in fact, i wanted to somewhat understand why it was such a big hit. I read the 1st two books but I didn’t like it that much and just yesterday, I watched the 1st movie and was disappointed.
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:28 am
Kent: why compare it to tolkien and shakespeare at all? try comparing it to movies like Ocean’s 11 or Clueless. the twilight books are a good leave-your-brains at the door kind of entertainment. Reading nothing but masterpieces can get tedious. it’s like eating steak at every meal. you’ll crave pizza every so often.
Krissy: try reading Eclipse. It’s the funniest of the 4 books. not quite as hormonally melodramatic as the first two books and the edward-jacob competition is hilarious. breaking dawn is not bad, but more angst-y and teenager-ish.
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@Pheoebe- That’s just it… We leave our brains at the door too often. I hear women gush over EC a lot. Funny how the people who dislike(I think hate is too strong a word to be used on a book) the series happen to have read such great works as I’ve mentioned above. Pizza, as you put it, can be found in gems such as HP or The Hobbit(By Tolkien. It was written as a book for the younger audience and the theme of the first few chapters of LotR:FotR reflect this). Clearly they target the same age but with much more meaning to it. You can enjoy the book while you “leave your brains at the door.”
But do you mean that the entire Twilight Saga has no real plot at all? Far as I know, one needs brains to understand a plot… And plot twists.
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Mancard… still remember when it was no longer in use.
There’s a new internet term of manliness common in Fate/Stay Night anime circles.
GAR- “GAR” is primarily the utmost level of manliness a character can achieve, although it is not bound to either fictional or non-fictional characters.
In another- All other straight men turn gay in the presence of a man who has achieved GAR. They are not gay but rather, they are still straight men who pale in comparison to GAR.
Gar came about either as a misspelling or a weird acronym for “Gay for ARcher.”
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
In the end, we all have a right to read what we want to read, without fear or prejudice. So if you want to read Meyer or Homer, Tolkien or Sheldon, Shakespeare or Gregorio, go right ahead. It was a free world, last I checked.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Yes it is. Which leaves me free to voice my opinions, doesn’t it?
I may have gotten off wrong here, my point simply is, maybe we should see if there really is a point to what we read. Ignorance is bliss but sometimes enlightenment can show you something better.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Kent: the plots are light enough to make reading effortless entertainment, good enough to hold the story together.
it’s not easy to get kids try to consider reading as entertainment rather than homework so to just get them to enjoy reading anything is a step in the right direction. even Archie comics boosts an adolescent’s vocabulary, and is archie any less hormonal than twilight? the bonus to the twilight books is that Meyer also points the reader towards Austen, Bronte, Montgomery and even Shakespeare. it’s a good place as any to start. Also, do you read Beerkada for entertainment or purely for the social commentary of Lyndon Gregorio?
December 4th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Now there’s a debater!
Thank you. Could you please telll me how Meyer points to the other writers? I don’t quite grasp your meaning. Hm, As to Archie, well, I’d have to say that yes, it is less hormonal.
My biggest problem with Twilight, simply, is the idealization of men and relationships, The idealization of women already brought trouble to the world, in a sense, wnd who knows what would happen if these young women grew up looking for an “Edward” in their lives? They would most certainly fail and if they held on to that hope for too long they might grow cynical of the world. A world that’s too cynical already.
I read Beerkada as a light but not pointless reading. Social commentaries and witty turn-of-phrases can be put together, as only people with the skills of these men can. I read Beerkada to remind me of the happier side of life. No sense in losing the child within all of us.
December 5th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Kent: thanks for the compliment.
1) Jughead is the only non-hormonal teenager in Riverdale. Archie is so hormonal that he’s almost disabled.
2) Classic references in the series : Meyer named Edward for Edward Rochester (Jane Eyre) and Edward Ferrars (Sense and Sensibility). Bella reads a Jane Austen compilation in her back yard in Twilight. Edward and Bella discuss Romeo and Juliet a lot in New Moon. Bella reads, discusses, and quotes the finer points of Wuthering Heights in Eclipse. Bella wears an Anne of Green Gables wedding gown and Alice left Bella secret instructions in a copy of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in Breaking Dawn. Meyer also listed some recommended reading for fans who visit her website. Any ‘fluff’ writer who can interest any reader (especially kids) to even take a whiff at the classics has my respect.
2)The idealization of relationships: Edward idealizes Bella just as much as Bella idealizes Edward, making them equal. Edward acknowledges that Jacob knows Bella better because Jacob doesn’t idealize her as much as Edward does. It’s a relief to Bella that to Jacob, she’ll always be ‘just Bella’. Edward’s extreme patience and perfection is irritating and usually ends up being worse for Bella than if he weren’t so hell-bent on doing what’s best for her. Jacob did a better job by being a lot less overbearingly careful. Meyer also ascribed Edward’s extreme courtesy and values by reminding the reader that he came from an earlier time period, when expecting chivalry and such were the norm than the exception. Bella may physically a damsel in distress, but she is also stubborn, empowered and determined to do her share.
December 5th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Kevin and here I thought I was the only one who knew about GAR lol. Does that mean that GAR is beyond Mancore?
December 5th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Sure, Phoebe, but that’s just it, with all the idealization, people become complete idealists. Being optimistic isn’t bad, neither is being realistic. But if you take too much of either, you make mistakes.
I give on the Archie comics part, you got me.
References work only when fanatics research them. As a Fate/Stay Night Fan, I’ve immersed myself in the series and game long enough and began researching the out-of-game facts. So I learned about King Arthur and such. But as stated previously, it’s already hard enough to get people to read, reading Twilight may move some people but how sure are you that a large number will start reading Anne of Green Gables, or and of Shakespeare’s works? Or for that matter, out-of-Twilight research?
December 5th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Huh, I suppose, since the definition does kind of say that…
It’d be funny if there was a guy with a card with “GAR” written on it and Bryan starts to go gay around the guy. LOLZ.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Kent: idealization has always been part of literature. not until Shrek has Prince Charming and the Fairy Godmother become any less than ideal. And even if only 1 in a hundred pursue the references as far as to scan the synopses of the classics, that makes, what, approximately ten thousand more out of a million who discover the older books. Classic books aren’t as easy to dive into as those written in the present mostly because it’s harder to relate to the references and way of life of the time period. I’m an avid reader, but I still have a hard time slogging through any book written over a hundred years ago.
December 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Haha! I guess. Beowulf was one tough cookie for me.
A part is not a whole. For Twilight, the indealization seems to be the majority of it, even the central machine that runs the story. Or maybe I’m exaggerating.
They discover, you say. but what then? How many out of a hundred who discover the books will bother to read through them? And how many out of a hundred who read through them learn to appreaciate the finer qualities of literature?
And I may be mistaken here but are you implying that Twilight is a piece of literature?
December 6th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Kevin: it depends on your definition of literature, I suppose, but I think Twilight is pop fiction rather than literature. Pointing readers towards the classics isn’t really an author’s obligation, it’s just something extra a reader might be interested in. It’s not the author’s job to educate the reader on literature, that’s the reader’s choice. if only one reader in a million follow through, that’s still one reader more who has learned to enjoy something they ordinarily wouldn’t have even tried. You probably already know that some classics like Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo were considered pop fiction during the author’s lifetime.
December 6th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
@Kevin: Great. Now I lost my argument. No worries though. You voiced some of my answers anyway.
@Phoebe: You’re right, it is not an obligation of the writer. And that one person could stil affect those around them. What I’m worried about, is the trend following. Should more books similar to Twilight come out, what would happen then? In the same way, the spread might be the same, or even faster.
A movie showed the possibility of a futuristic America broken down by an unfocused education causing reading to be done only by “Gays.” It’s an exaggeration but a possibility is similar.
I’m not saying that Twilight is a dumb book, just that, it might not carry the right things for the age group it targets. We can all appreciate romance and especially with a hint of fantasy.
December 7th, 2009 at 7:41 am
If you want pop fiction that bridges with literature guys, might I suggest the two latest errr creations (just like Frankenstein the monster itself was a creation) Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters plus Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Kent: I’ve read worse (possible ‘influence’)books during my teens. Sweet Valley High and VC Andrews come to mind. All the plotting and backstabbing and even sabotaging in SVH make Edward and Jacob look like saints. And looking at what’s available right now is pure pleasure. there’s so many more genres available geared towards younger readers, and it’s all different and a good read for parents as well as their kids. That’s the key, I think. if the parents are so concerned, they should read the books too.
December 7th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Then lets all watch all episodes of old STAR TREK and turn into gnarling and whining nerds! XD
Joke only!