Mari Alenna Diaz

Student in ENG2GOT course.

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@OliviaEllisENGG "oh hey another one of my bosom friends has died. oh well i guess"

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@maamylatrobe I think it's quite possible Meyer literally had nothing else to do.

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... lesbian vampires: http://t.co/kbZQaRgiD0 . Everyone is a lesbian and I am not kidding #ENG2GOT

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Fans have already done exactly the thing Meyer probably didn't plan for or want them to do: mashing the 2 texts together to make...#ENG2GOT

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Reading up on Life and Death - this article argues the gender changes have made the novel MORE conventional http://t.co/x3DF55QTew #ENG2GOT

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Twilight week; just in time for Meyer's release of Life and Death http://t.co/zfOffVYiDh #ENG2GOT

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The thing I found actually terrifying about Drac was his psychological/emotional abuse of Jonathan in the opening chapters. #ENG2GOT

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Tbh I was almost a bit disappointed by Mina's relatively sedate reaction to Lucy's death? They were supposed to be bffs 4 lyfe? #ENG2GOT

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How many here have seen the recent adaptation that portrayed Lucy as canonically in love with Mina? #ENG2GOT

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The Band of Light as "queerplatonic" or a polyamorous relationship? #ENG2GOT

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Interesting that none of the characters in Drac victim-blame Lucy or Mina, yet many of the novel's readers are eager to. #eyeroll #ENG2GOT

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It would be interesting to write an essay on Dracula with the lens of rape culture. #ENG2GOT

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2/2 which then got even more popular as time went with examples like Angel, Edward Scissorhands, and Edward Cullen. #ENG2GOT

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One of my theories abt the rising popularity in romanticised vampires is that early vampires fell under the Byronic Hero trope 1/2 #ENG2GOT

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@jacqui_garvey @alicia_rose1991 Stoker was among a large list of writers whose debated or confirmed homosexuality was an open secret????????

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@Good15809055 not to mention Drac just Happening to land at the town Lucy and Mina just Happened to be staying in.

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To me vampires have always had the connotations of sexual predators, a connection only confirmed and strengthened from reading Drac #ENG2GOT

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@TravisAndrews95 I do fondly think of a future in which I can attend a con without having a zombie forced on my retinas, yes.

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@jacqui_garvey Liquids and sexual gratification are also involved in sex that isn't "heterosexual." ???

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@alicia_rose1991 ... horror rather than terror, which we see more as the genre of "thriller" because a lot of pathos isn't taken seriously.