For a redesign of my local writer’s group site, I asked some school friends if I could shoot their kids. Both Sadie and Shontail agreed, because they are awesome like that, and I got some very cute stuff. They have beautiful kids. And well behaved! Amazing.

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A neat dress and cute hairstyle combine to make this a very nice look.

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Because good things still exist in life:

And another one from Megan:

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Sometimes the most interesting shots are the ones that tell a story.

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I found Meyer’s Twilight by browsing the library shelves in search of something to read. Even though I’m not a big vampire fan, I have friends who are and thought I should give the genre a try. It turned out much better then expected. The love scenes were cheesy and overdone (nobody actually talks like that), but otherwise it was a sweet, YA romance. I recommended it to my friends, then went on to read other books.

A month or so later I discover Twilight is the Next Big Thing, that there will be a sequel (why exactly?), and that every young female reader in the universe (or so they tell me) is in love with Edward. This still strikes me as odd, since I read the book for Bella. Not that Edward isn’t interesting and all, but my Ideal Leading Man he is not.
I find it interesting that Meyer was “in love with [Edward] from day one”. From what I’ve seen of her later work, she’s fallen into the same trap as Elizabeth George who is also in love with her male lead (Inspector Lynley). In George’s case, this causes her to slight her other much more interesting and reader beloved character, Barbra Havers. In Meyer’s case? It caused her to turn a sweet novel into a depressing, melodramatic series.

Still I was interested in seeing the movie, at least until a friend told me it made all the characters one-dimensional. Then, in my daily RSS reader update from Editorial Ass, I came across this review: If ‘Twilight’ Was 10 Times Shorter And 100 Times More Honest. Pretty funny, though with a mean edge towards Meyer (seriously, the woman is only fat if you consider stick insects the epitome of beauty), but one of his final notes gave me pause:

So, the next generation of young women are currently flocking to see a female lead starring in a movie by a female director based on a bestselling book by a female author, and in this movie the main character wants to become completely submissive and self-sacrificing for a male.

How annoyingly true that is.

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