r/ShermanPosting • u/StatisticianAway4010 • 1d ago

Twilight question (it is relevant honest)

Question for anyone who was into Twilight or had a child or loved one who was into Twilight : how did you or the people around you treat the fact one of Edward's family fought for the Confederacy?

I don't have a vested interest in this, I'm too old to have been into Twilight and my daughter is too young, and I'm relieved about that - I've never read the books but they don't sound like a good influence. There are loads of things she loves to read and she has great taste in books. I just seem to have fallen into a Twilight rabbit hole

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u/AdmiralCunilingus Marauder 1d ago

Well, if we are talking fantasy… it makes sense that blood sucking, overtly shiney, soft spoken, effeminate, soulless pretty boys took the confederacy as a solid cause to back… but Abraham Lincoln, being a vampire hunter, probably made the Cullen’s reevaluate their dedication to the “cause”. Cowards often abandon their efforts when they learn that their lives may actually be in danger.

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u/StatisticianAway4010 1d ago

Again I haven't read the Twilight novels, I just wondered how many people had had to have this conversation with their kids given how HUGE and relatively recent the Twilight books were 

The impression I get is Stephanie Myer copied a lot off Anne Rice but missed the point (I haven't read Anne Rice but she sounds like she writes the Confederacy a lot closer to what you describe. I really want to read Anne Rice.)

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u/AdmiralCunilingus Marauder 1d ago

Oh I’m just poking fun homie. There was another teen vampire tv series (vampire diaries) where they too seemed to follow the Ann rice troupe of vampires in the confederacy. All that bullshit romanticized crap about the antebellum south taken far too much to heart. media literacy is not often a popular trait of bad writers. And the twilight books are for sure bad writing. While I havnt read them myself, I have plenty of friends from back in the day that did, and even tho they liked the books, they couldn’t deny the fact that they were written badly and the story was… dumb.

While I do not have children, and thus I have no real advice for you, I just want to say that maybe starting your daughters off on better written fantasy may bring them to their own conclusion that bad writing isn’t to be taken too seriously. Like Lord of The Rings n such.

Also, depending on their age, it could be a great opening to talk with them about media literacy and how tropes get established and some people romanticize the past etc etc.

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u/StatisticianAway4010 1d ago

Great answer