So the Supernatural season finale aired last Friday and well...

( Spoileree Spoilera )

Be gentle, it's my first time.

Oh, hi! I didn't see you come in there. I suppose you've come to hear about the Twilight fans; I've been expecting you. Please, pull up a chair.

As you know, many moons ago the land of literature was invaded by the forces of Twilight and their insane leader ZantStephanie Meyer. Their batboop-crazy antics have been recorded fully elsewhere in these halls, and so let us proceed swiftly to the latest news.

It seems that Twilight fans have developed a thing for petitions. Lots of petitions. For everything. Let me explain.

The actor who plays Edward, Robert Pattinson, is working on an unrelated movie, entitled "Water for Elephants" (based on a novel that began as a NaNoWriMo entry, fun fact). It seems possible his co-star from Twilight, Kristen Stewart, might conceivably visit the première, right? Most people would have no reaction to this. Most people wouldn't even have spent the time to think up the connection. Twilight fans, on the other hand, start a petition to ban her from attending.

This was the report that tipped me off. There was apparently a big flaming thread on IMDB about it, but it has since been deleted. If anyone happened to see it and take screencaps, let us know!

Anyway, while I was searching for a few links to put in a writeup (and maybe some 'caps), I happened across an unrelated page. Apparently Robert is a smoker. Twilight fans' solution? Sign a petition, of course! So I got the impression that this was a "thing" in Twilight fandom, and I started to get curious. Let's see how deep this rabbit hole goes....
( hint: it goes pretty deep )

ETA: Icon by chienne!

Heroes is on the verge of cancellation. Again, apparently. I don't pay attention to these things so much, but some people seem to care very much that Heroes will be cancelled. They care so much that they've organized a petition! The post is short, but the wank is quality. Mostly, the wank is bigbadwolfeboro, a True Fan (tm).

Of course, not everyone feels the same way.* This is terribly tragic.

*(also, raveneyes signs all their comments with a tilde and a lowercase letter. It's like all my pet peeves blended into a foul smoothie of hate.)

bigbadwolfeboro is a rather helpful individual, though! For example, she answers her own questions:

Shows what you know I AM A WOMAN!!!! and I'm not the one complaining about Heroes on a Heroes fan com. You come to a fan site in a post trying to save a show and talk trash. What did you expect would happen? Now who's crazy?

Mmm, delicious crazy. Other highlights include:

Well, someone clearly knows how to use HTML tags.

Two ships points, passing in the night, possibly on different planets.

Don't go peddling that dirty voice of reason when I've got UNBELIEVERS to hunt!

My new favorite GIF. Seriously. You can't go wrong with Cary Elwes.

And as a bonus mini-wank, mousie fap-off in wank_report! I'm not sure why you think this is some kind of moral judgment, grudge-mousie, but when you say this should be wanked because "They're making everyone else look bad," I assume you're not including yourself in "everyone else." You're doing a bang-up job on your own!

So, there is a petition aimed towards Stephenie Meyer and her publisher Little, Brown that's actually more of a letter about why Breaking Dawn sucks and what the author (of the letter!) would have done to make it better. It has received 1152 signatures so far.

When it broke a thousand, the petition's author emailed the following letter to Seth*, the maintainer of StephenieMeyer.com:

Seth,

I completely understand that you are not the whipping boy for Stephenie Meyer, but she has given us no address to reach her directly, so sadly, I have few choices- and one of them was to send this to you.

My name is Heather Faust, and I have written a letter to Stephenie and to Little, Brown. As suggested by a number of others on message boards, I posted this letter as a "petition." Today we reached a thousand signatures. (It has only been live for a few days.) We will continue to leave it live and see how it grows.

I feel that it is well written and respectful, and I would hope that you would take a few minutes to read it. If it gets through to Stephenie, well, I'd be thrilled. We are not looking to hurt her, we aren't looking for her to rewrite it... We just want our opinions acknowledged, and we'd like to no longer be referred to as a "vocal minority." We'd also love it if she'd be able to answer our concerns with more than just "it's fiction," "I'm not a biology major" or other brush offs. We don't, of course expect that at all. But just a simple "Yes, I hear you, I'm sorry that you were disappointed" would be enough for us.

Anyway, sorry that you are in the middle of all of this. That must suck for you.

Thanks for your time

Seth responds:

( In an attempt to keep the books clean and not make young girls think about things that they don't need to think about, no other book mentioned anything about reproductive systems. )

*A lot of people have mentioned that Seth is not only the webmaster of SMeyer's site, he's also her brother.