[ SECRET POST #2231 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2231 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon. I love Bella Swan from a narrative/device standpoint. Picking apart books like Twilight and figuring out why they work for so many people despite being so terrible (and having fun spotting all the errors) is awesome.

And I like Umbridge! She was an awful, sadistic woman and and interesting character. She was a woman with power and agency of her own and her mind set was so completely fascinating and fucked up. You don't get a lot of awful women villians as thought out and complex and Dolores Umbridge.

[truxillogical]

Umbridge is one of my favorite Harry Potter characters because she taps right into my primal hatred of people being UNFAIR.

And because, to this day, she is the only fictional character that I ever knew to get an honest, visceral reaction from my Dad. (Specifically, he came home one day, having listened to some of OotP in the car, and said, without any prompting, "I want to drive nails into her eyes.")

Bella Swan is just hateful, though. Beyond all the simpery teenage love, I just can't get past how terribly she treats her father and how justified she feels in doing so.

[elephantinegrace]

If I knew fandomsecrets was going to make me laugh so hard, I would've waited until after the party was over to get on.

[(Anonymous)]

Fandomsecrets is the only party you'll ever need.

[grainne_mhaol]

I read an interesting article on Bella Swann and parentification once. Wish I could find it again. The author argued that a lot of Bella's apparently brattish behaviour and stunted social skills resonated with her own experience of having to take the adult role in her relationship with her own parents. It was a pretty compelling interpretation.

[truxillogical]

But in her father's case, she really doesn't. Every time he tries to act like a parent, she has a little hissy fit and acts like he's terrible.

Then again, I also remember reading a little blurb that broke down what the events of the story looked like from Charlie's point of view (given only what he knows and sees) and thought it looked like the very worst lifetime story of a parent helpless to save their child from an abusive cult, so...

[inkmage]

I'm a bit late, but I've been reading an awesome, very in-depth deconstruction of Twilight here: http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/02/twilight-twilight-deconstruction-index.html

[lunabee34]

I think Umbridge is a great character, too, mostly because she's an example of how much damage people who aren't All-Powerfully Evil ala Voldemort can be extremely dangerous and cause a lot of damage. She's a real world villain.