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By coinoperatedgirl - 11/01/2010 01:04 - United States

Today, I realized that I will never be able to buy the car I've wanted since middle school. The car? A greyish-silver Volvo, which is the make and color of car Kurt Cobain drove. The reason? I've been informed that it's also the make and color of the car that Edward Cullen drives in Twilight. FML
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Amphysvena 11

or, you could man the **** up and drive the car because you like it, not because someone else did

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tlyr 0

that's really sad. god I hate "Twilight"

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colonelduckie 5

Just get the car. People will not care. If they say like Edward Cullen say no Kurt Cobain. He is a fictional character I bet there are people who will not even get the reference.

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boatkicker 4

The movies sucked. End of story, but the books not so much. They aren't amazing works of literature, but they aren't the lowest of the low either. They're pretty much standard. It would be hard to find a book that really shows exactly where the standard market is. People like love stories. People like vampires. Looking at any shelf in a book store you'll see a lot of better writing, and a lot of far worse writing. Meyer got lucky on that one. At the right time an average book can be 'great' and hers has. It's not loved because its amazing; it's loved because it was the right book for the right time. It's not hated because it's crap, but rather because it's so popular and yet not an amazing work of literature. It's the same love story thats book told billions of times. Girl falls in love with a cold antisocial guy. Antisocial guy ends up having some demons and feel that she's not safe with him. He pushes her away. Eventually they get back together and have a happily ever after. If I felt like putting forth the effort I bet I could find hundreds of those. As for Meyer, she's good at writing dialogue. Her characters speak in a way that fits very nicely with the way she wants them portrayed. However, she's not so great at describing her characters. Edward, Bella, and the rest all have about 5 adjectives that apply to them, and no more. She could use a lot of work on that. The rest of the story is about average for what you'll find. The sparkling? Sure that's cheesy, on a big level, but a lot of vampire writers come up with a new vampire trait that had never been heard of before, or a new twist on a well known trait. It's not uncommon, though why she picked something so silly as sparkling, I have no idea. I just got off on some sort of rant. I dont know why I wrote that, and don't expect anyone to read it. It's mostly irrelevant.

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Moemoemoe_fml 0

^^This.^^ Ladies and gentlemen, meet one of the few commenters with a brain on this site. :)

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shalizzz 0

The sparkling is something new????? No, my friend......just like everything else in that book, the idea is stolen from another best-seller......Specifically, Charlaine Harris' "The Southern Vampires Mysteries". In those books, Sookie Stackhouse mentions that after drinking vampire blood from Bill, she sort of glowed in the dark for a while, but it eventually wore off. S. Meyer just took that idea and adapted it.........She took anything she found interesting from Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris and L.J. Smith and adapted it into a soft **** book for introverted teenage girls with ragging hormones who now have a reason to believe that someday that hot, perfect, mysterious gentleman will come and sweep them off their feet.

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boatkicker 4

Alright, so she didn't come up with that one. I don't pay much attention to vampire lore in general. Vampires have never been a big interest of mine. My vampire knowledge is limited to Meyer, and Rice, and whatever rumors I have heard over the years. Might try and get a copy of Stoker's Dracula though one of these days.

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zargon 1

You say "love story", but all I see is "paedophilic, abusive stalker and the woman who thinks he's totally hot". I don't hate Twilight because it's popular; I hate it because it's popular with people who then say shit like "oh, why can't any guy be like Edward", which is exactly the wrong idea to take away from it.

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Elpieo 0

I don't hate twilight, why? I've never read or seen the movies, I do however dislike the concept and also the fangirls, not all of them the ones who do want Edward in real life and think that every one wants to read twilight and will join in on their fan games and try to get twilight into every thing (eg. http://knowyourmeme.com/i/16371/original/Troll_trolling_Twi_fag_troll_by_oddman_exe.png?1252213583 note:not me, found on meme). To any fans of twilight out there comment on it once and if no one likes twilight stop commenting, try else were, other wise you're troll bait. Also the next "Shiny" book series that comes out, the same thing applies.

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boatkicker 4

No, not pedophilic because he is 17. Despite the fact that he's been 'alive' for 100 whatever years, his mind and body are both trapped at 17. I also don't recall any part in the books that he was abusive. Stalker yes, and its creepy as all hell. And I don't see what's wrong with a woman thinking someone is hot? As to "why can't a guy be like Edward" most of the people who say that don't actually mean it literally. They mean "Why can't any guy be hot, and want the best for me, and not want to just get into my pants, and still love me and want to be with me." and he does have all of those good qualities. However he also has the creepy stalkerish bit, and he's annoying because he thinks he knows better than everyone else. It's whatever.

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zargon 1

"His body and mind are stuck at 17" is complete bullshit. He is still not 17, he has still experienced more than a 17 year old, and he is still, for most intents and purposes, over a hundred. (For reference, a 40 yo who is mentally 12 is still technically paedophilic if he's into 12 year olds.) And, trust me, he's abusive. Maybe not physically abusive, but that's not what I meant, anyway. Look up the signs of emotional abuse and see how many Edward hits. It's terrifying that this is the man so many girls think is so great.

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boatkicker 4

I have been emotionally abused. That relationship is NOT abusive.

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jpgray1982 0

um. I think you have enough of a year/model/price gap where you won't need to worry about it

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ariadne27 3

YDI. Being obsessed with Kurt Cobain is as unoriginal as being obsessed with Edward Cullen.

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rebel_yell_tiny 0

I don't think she is obsessed with kurt cobain, maybe she was just a young fan back then and when she saw the car he had, she fell in love with it too. I mean, we all have a dream car and I remember seeing mine on a mag and it's owner was not one of my favorite artists. But if she is obsessed, then you have a good point.

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Syldoran 0

Normally, I'd say that it's kinda pathetic to not buy the car based on the fandom, but considering it's the Twilight fandom, I have to make an exception. There are a number of girls who WOULD tear the OP apart just to touch his car. Some of them are freaking scary. Some girls in my biology class had a fit just because we were doing an onion root lab to study the phases of mitosis--the same thing Edward and Bella did in Twilight. It was a mild fit in comparison to some of the stuff I've seen fangirls do, and if some of the violent stories with photographic evidence are to be believed about fangirls attacking people who don't like Twilight, frick, following a guy in a silver Volvo home or something wouldn't be surprising at all. That said, if you've wanted the car that long, buy it, and keep a gun in it.

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Hermyoni 0

Who cares? How is this a FML. You'd really not get your dream car because of a movie. That's not a FML that is just sad.

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crashTRAGIC 0

god who gives a ****!?! you're a sad piece of shit anyone so i don't think it matters at all....prick!

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ShowOffInsomniac 0

The only redeeming quality the series has is that the twitards do funny shit.

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YuKii___xo 0

get the car, then put apply a bumper sticker that says, "I killed Edward and stole his car"

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greeneye_fml 12

Forgot to add this, there are t shirts you can buy online that say: "AND THEN BUFFY STAKED EDWARD. THE END." I'm getting one.

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NotEven 0

#84 and #115 That is just frickin awesome. You should also keep a stake in the car. My favorite Buffy quote: Xander- You're taking a stake? Buffy- yep. Xander- But it's not a vampire. Buffy- You'd be surprised how many things that kills. Stakes also kill crazy little fangirls who touch your car ;)

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