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This thread will never die, just like the sparkly vampires we all love so much!
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# ? May 27, 2024 02:49 |
gently caress. I was thinking to myself last night "Maybe I should do the draft before moving on..." and here she comes ruining everything. I have read the draft, and hoo boy is it bad. It's basically a full description of the depths of Edward Cullen's sociopathic depravity, no detail spared.
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# ? May 4, 2020 16:34 |
Chapter 7: Unexpectedquote:The line of black advanced on me through the shroud-like mist. I could see their dark ruby eyes glinting with desire, lusting for the kill. Their lips pulled back over their sharp, wet teeth—some to snarl, some to smile. I'm gonna be really annoyed if these prophetic dreams keep going until she's no longer able to sleep, and I'm willing to bet that's what's gonna happen. quote:The room was black. It was also steamy hot. Sweat matted my hair at the temples and rolled down my throat. Edward? quote:One sheet of paper, folded in half. I took the note with me and felt my way across the room to the light switch. How did he leave? Did he take their boat and strand her on the island? Did he super-swim back? quote:I sighed. We’d been here about two weeks now, so I should have been expecting that he would have to leave, but I hadn’t been thinking about time. We seemed to exist outside of time here, just drifting along in a perfect state. I like how Meyer is able to retain some ambiguity about why Bella is so ravenous because she's such a dunderheaded klutz that she would start eating hot chicken straight out of the pan. quote:I was abruptly exhausted, but I didn’t want to go back to the hot room. So I opened more windows in the TV room and lay on the couch right beneath them. I turned on the same movie we’d watched the other day and quickly fell asleep to the bright opening song. You stocked the kitchen but forgot about HVAC? quote:I couldn’t concentrate on what he was saying. “Excuse me!” I gasped, struggling to get free of his arms. H y p e r b a b y quote:“Not likely, Bella.” I would love a Birdemic kind of thing where the plot just suddenly shifts into global warfare or something out of nowhere midway through. quote:I got bored with the news and twisted around to kiss him. Just like this morning, a sharp pain hit my stomach when I moved. I lurched away from him, my hand tight over my mouth. I knew I’d never make it to the bathroom this time, so I ran to the kitchen sink. How has Bella survived 18 years by refusing to see a doctor? quote:When my mouth tasted better, I searched through my suitcase for the little first-aid kit Alice had packed for me, full of human things like bandages and painkillers and—my object now—Pepto-Bismol. Maybe I could settle my stomach and calm Edward down. Physically yes, mentally no. quote:“Bella? Can I please come in?” Worriedly now. That makes two of you! quote:I tried to swallow. It didn’t work. So I reached into the suitcase and fumbled around until I found the little blue box of tampons again. I held them up silently. Much like any 17-year-old who just learned he's a father! quote:“The dreams,” I mumbled to myself in a flat voice. “Sleeping so much. The crying. All that food. Oh. Oh. Oh.” She's pregnant with the impending release of Midnight Sun! quote:I twisted my torso back and forth, examining it from every angle, as if it would disappear in exactly the right light. I ran my fingers over the subtle bulge, surprised by how rock hard it felt under my skin. First off, it is bullshit writing to suddenly go back and say "Actually I learned all of these things beforehand and it wasn't important so it never came up", because it's the most obvious sign that you haven't planned poo poo and you're making this up as you go while pretending you're not. Second, did we just have it dropped that the Denali coven is the origin of the succubus myth as a passing afterthought? quote:I shook my head, dazed. But… How does any of that follow, though? Part of becoming a vampire is that not only does your body enter stasis, all of your bodily fluids are replaced with vampire venom. This has already been established and The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide goes into much greater detail (in general that book is just Meyer putting in all of the world building and character backgrounds that should have been in the books). Yet their sperm remains untouched and viable centuries later? quote:Of course, how would anyone know if vampire men could father children, when their partners were not able? What vampire on earth would have the restraint necessary to test the theory with a human woman? Or the inclination? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPQ7om598OM quote:In the same moment, Edward’s phone rang, shrill and demanding. Neither of us moved. It rang again and again. I tried to tune it out while I pressed my fingers to my stomach, waiting. In the mirror my expression was no longer bewildered—it was wondering now. I barely noticed when the strange, silent tears started streaming down my cheeks. Yes you are! quote:“Is Edward all right?” she asked warily. She called Carlisle’s name away from the phone and then demanded, “Why didn’t he pick up the phone?” before I could answer her first question. As this book will detail, Alice's powers continue to work at the speed and necessity of the plot. quote:While I waited through the split second it took for Carlisle to speak, the vision I’d imagined for Alice danced behind my lids. A tiny, beautiful little baby, even more beautiful than the boy in my dream—a tiny Edward in my arms. Warmth shot through my veins, chasing the ice away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-JjIetl64U As usual, the movie greatly shortens this scene. quote:“Has he been harmed?” Carlisle’s voice was suddenly urgent. He's going to ask how fast Carlisle can get a source of fire to Rio. quote:“Put him on,” Carlisle said in a strained voice.
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# ? May 4, 2020 17:13 |
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Well this definitely won't get weird or gross.
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# ? May 4, 2020 17:40 |
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Someone post the screencap from the movie where Kristen Stewart is looking at her new baby bump in the mirror saying that it's impossible, but it's just her perfectly flat stomach. I literally laughed at that part.
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# ? May 4, 2020 17:50 |
Midjack posted:Well this definitely won't get weird or gross. No no, perfectly normal american couple returning from abroad here. What do you mean the thermal cameras indicate that one of them is a corpse and the other has a bomb in their abdomen?
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# ? May 4, 2020 17:54 |
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I’m behind on the thread itself but eternal reminder that Meyer flounced off and didn’t publish Midnight Sun because someone leaked it, and that wasn’t the first time something like that had happened because parts of Breaking Dawn got leaked to a lesser extent. She just couldn’t resist sharing content with people who SWORE not to pass it on but WELP. Her attitude at the time came off like she was basically punishing people for the leak.
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# ? May 4, 2020 19:31 |
SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I’m behind on the thread itself but eternal reminder that Meyer flounced off and didn’t publish Midnight Sun because someone leaked it, and that wasn’t the first time something like that had happened because parts of Breaking Dawn got leaked to a lesser extent. She just couldn’t resist sharing content with people who SWORE not to pass it on but WELP. Her attitude at the time came off like she was basically punishing people for the leak. Here's the interview where she describes what happened: quote:With Eclipse coming out this summer, the publisher decided to be much more careful. Absolutely no advance copies were distributed. Still, Meyer ran into a problem. Meyer screwed Meyer. She was the source of the leak, every time.
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# ? May 4, 2020 19:39 |
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:She just couldn’t resist sharing content with people who SWORE not to pass it on but WELP. Her attitude at the time came off like she was basically punishing people for the leak. That was her explicit intention. But yeah, its her own fault - she was too thirsty for praise to wait until it was ready for publication.
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:15 |
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Anias posted:In our modern air-travel world it would be even more ridiculous. I can only picture this in a forgettable 90's comedy where Bela Lugosi's Dracula shows up on the screen, causing the TSA agent to double glance at the couple before shaking his head and letting them go.
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:18 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnrapFeuN4c
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:35 |
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somebody got me hosed up
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:48 |
I was re-reading the thread and came back across the moment where James's coven only homes in on the Cullens because of their baseball game. Pretty much the entire plot happens because of playing baseball really loud.
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# ? May 5, 2020 02:14 |
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chitoryu12 posted:I was re-reading the thread and came back across the moment where James's coven only homes in on the Cullens because of their baseball game. Weird that the only good scene in the entire book/movie also drives the start of the plot. I sometimes wonder if the baseball scene wasn't the genesis of Meyer's vampire mythos. If it wasn't it should have been.
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# ? May 5, 2020 03:59 |
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Dienes posted:Want to hear more about this. From the fandom-infamous “Twilight Lexicon Correspondence #12” in which Meyer spent over 6K words not answering why the Cullens spent their unlives in comfortable wealth instead of atoning for their sins in rags: Stephenie Meyer in 2007 posted:
Keep in mind she randomly showed up in the discussion thread, this wasn’t an AMA or the fans expecting her to reply. Meyer is of course not a sociopath, but failed to recognize (and perhaps still does) that all the Cullens to some degree are, Edward in particular. At least Bella was her self-insert, because by the time E.L. James profited off Meyer’s success we ended up with an even worse sociopathic self-insert in Christian Grey.
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# ? May 5, 2020 05:22 |
I've been doing some math to figure out how to go about this thread with the Midnight Sun announcement. I think the most likely one is to do Master of the Universe once this book is done, then do Midnight Sun when it drops. Then make a new thread for the Fifty Shades series. I've been skimming the fic and I'm astounded by how you can pick so many random pages and come across a paragraph that just bashes your brains clean out of your skull.
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# ? May 5, 2020 05:29 |
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chitoryu12 posted:I've been doing some math to figure out how to go about this thread with the Midnight Sun announcement. I think the most likely one is to do Master of the Universe once this book is done, then do Midnight Sun when it drops. Then make a new thread for the Fifty Shades series. Fanfic? Yeah it's always real bad.
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# ? May 5, 2020 05:33 |
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:From the fandom-infamous “Twilight Lexicon Correspondence #12” in which Meyer spent over 6K words not answering why the Cullens spent their unlives in comfortable wealth instead of atoning for their sins in rags:
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# ? May 5, 2020 06:19 |
quote:Edward was on the phone for more than an hour without a break. I guessed that he was arranging our flight home, but I couldn’t be sure because he wasn’t speaking English. It sounded like he was arguing; he spoke through his teeth a lot. It certainly couldn't be that Stephenie Meyer is going to tackle a difficult subject head-on! quote:Once again, I ended up in the kitchen. There was a bag of pretzels in the cupboard. I started chewing on them absently, staring out the window at the sand and rocks and trees and ocean, everything glittering in the sun. What we're about to witness is Meyer's personal values butting up against supernatural realities again. quote:Once I thought of this, I was sure I had it. He must be so worried about the baby. I hadn’t gotten around to freaking out yet. My brain worked slower than his—it was still stuck marveling over the picture it had conjured up before: the tiny child with Edward’s eyes—green, as his had been when he was human—lying fair and beautiful in my arms. I hoped he would have Edward’s face exactly, with no interference from mine. Oh yeah, Meyer is going to take advantage of this to do Rosalie dirty later on. quote:This child, Edward’s child, was a whole different story. Like all good women, right? quote:As I put my hand on my stomach, waiting for the next nudge, tears streaked down my cheeks again. Yes, Stephenie Meyer is going to try and fit an anti-abortion screed into this book! As we will find out, her message is radically wrong in the context of what's actually happening in the fiction and people are gonna get weird. quote:What could I do? Would I be able to reason with them? What if I couldn’t? Did this explain Alice’s strange silence on the phone? Is that what she’d seen? Edward and Carlisle killing that pale, perfect child before he could live? Ah yes, pale and perfect. Not like those emotional tribal folk back home. quote:“No,” I whispered again, my voice stronger. That could not be. I would not allow it. How did she clue in that the Cullens are vampires? Is it because they didn't stock food before when staying here? Is that all? quote:Kaure edged nervously around the corner with a covered dish in her hands. I wished I could speak Portuguese, or that my Spanish was less rudimentary, so that I could try to thank this woman who had dared to anger a vampire just to check on me. Poor Kaure was played in the film by Carolina Virguez, a Brazilian actress who emigrated from Colombia. She's mainly a theatre performer and director with a recent focus on returning to her Colombian roots. quote:Her eyes flickered between the two of us. I saw her measuring the color in my face, the moisture in my eyes. Mumbling something I didn’t understand, she put the dish on the counter. I guess she won't have weird food cravings while pregnant. quote:I rinsed my mouth in the tap while he caressed the side of my face. Why? You both want the same thing. quote:Suddenly, Kaure was shouting at him—loudly, furiously, her unintelligible words flying across the room like knives. She raised her tiny fist in the air and took two steps forward, shaking it at him. Despite her ferocity, it was easy to see the terror in her eyes. Ah yes, those foreigners with their imperceptible alien tongue! quote:I watched as his face grew sad and serious, and he nodded once. She took a quick step back and crossed herself. Goes right from "I love my precious, perfect quote:She walked a few steps forward deliberately this time and asked a few brief questions, which he responded to tensely. Then he became the questioner—one quick query. She hesitated and then slowly shook her head. When he spoke again, his voice was so agonized that I looked up at him in shock. His face was drawn with pain. This woman must live an interesting life if she knows all of this! quote:Edward was frozen again, staring after her with the tortured expression fixed on his face. A few moments later, I heard a boat’s engine putter to life and then fade into the distance. How could a vampire try to use that excuse? quote:“I packed your toothbrush. I’ll get it for you.” Riveting. quote:“I’ll get the bags into the boat.” "Assuming the smell doesn't cause me to immediately vomit all over the boat." quote:“Of course,” he said, his eyes suddenly soft. “Don’t worry about anything. We’ll get to Carlisle in just a few hours, really. This will all be over soon.” And thanks to his super speed, returned within 5 seconds? quote:I whirled and scooped up the phone he’d left on the counter. It was very unlike him to forget things—to forget that Gustavo was coming, to leave his phone lying here. He was so stressed he was barely himself. ....yes? That has been a well-established fact of how acute vampire senses are. quote:I found the number I wanted, one I had never called before in my life. I pressed the “send” button and crossed my fingers.
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# ? May 5, 2020 17:58 |
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Real good Steffie.quote:I hoped he would have Edward’s face exactly, with no interference from mine. This is a contender for top ten most hosed sentences in the series.
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# ? May 5, 2020 18:30 |
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It's your body, girl! If you don't want an abortion, don't get one! Open your mouth and tell your husband. Unless you think he'll make you get one, in which case... jesus christ. Also, that movie montage from the last page was surprisingly cute. It was much more "husband and wife teasing each other" and less "emotionally manipulating my husband to have sex with me when he doesn't want to." hyperhazard fucked around with this message at 18:34 on May 5, 2020 |
# ? May 5, 2020 18:32 |
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Bella somehow gives birth to a baby with 17-year-old Edward's face, like those commissioned portraits of Baby Jesus with the face of an old, vain noble.
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# ? May 5, 2020 18:47 |
Grammarchist posted:Bella somehow gives birth to a baby with 17-year-old Edward's face, like those commissioned portraits of Baby Jesus with the face of an old, vain noble. Please tell me you actually don’t know how the baby turns out.
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# ? May 5, 2020 18:55 |
hyperhazard posted:It's your body, girl! If you don't want an abortion, don't get one! Open your mouth and tell your husband. Unless you think he'll make you get one, in which case... jesus christ. This book gets a lot deeper into the abortion narrative as it goes, with all of the characters taking sides. It will also feature Edward and Jacob making a plan that caused my eyes to bug out when I read it. quote:Also, that movie montage from the last page was surprisingly cute. It was much more "husband and wife teasing each other" and less "emotionally manipulating my husband to have sex with me when he doesn't want to." Every so often they actually let the actors be themselves on camera, and it's always much better than whatever Meyer thinks is how normal people act.
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# ? May 5, 2020 19:11 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Oh yeah, Meyer is going to take advantage of this to do Rosalie dirty later on. Her Mormonism is showing again. In the Mormon faith, making babies is the most important thing in existence for women. Your life revolves around your family and making it bigger, end of story. Women who choose not to have babies are rebelling against God, and women who can't for whatever reason are expected to help raise everyone else's babies.
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# ? May 5, 2020 19:13 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Please tell me you actually don’t know how the baby turns out. I honestly don't, apart from seeing "Chestburster Bella" costume at a Halloween party in college. I've never seen the movies or read the books. Didn't even have regular internet access till last year, so I'm about as ignorant as one can be.
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# ? May 5, 2020 19:49 |
Grammarchist posted:I honestly don't, apart from seeing "Chestburster Bella" costume at a Halloween party in college. I've never seen the movies or read the books. Didn't even have regular internet access till last year, so I'm about as ignorant as one can be. Perfect.
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# ? May 5, 2020 21:27 |
Okay I actually need to be really strict on myself not to post spoilers now because the thought of someone totally blind seeing what hosed up poo poo is about to happen is so good.
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# ? May 5, 2020 21:31 |
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There are two of us; the only thing I'm aware of outside of what's been posted is an alleged scene in the movie of placenta devouring.
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# ? May 5, 2020 21:34 |
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quote:Not only that, but the sound was different, more guttural, the cadence off. I didn’t think he was speaking Portuguese anymore. Also, how do you "bark" a long question?
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# ? May 6, 2020 00:05 |
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Shwoo posted:"More guttural," "the cadence off," and "alien tongue" are all great ways to describe an indigenous language, thanks, Stephanie Meyer. For a second I thought Meyer was implying Kaure was some kind of Amazonian werewolf that was losing control or something. Nope, just one of the few humans on the planet capable of putting two and two together, but tragically bereft the dulcet tones of American English.
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# ? May 6, 2020 01:03 |
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I know the movie version of what's coming but not the book so it'll be interesting to see what differences crop up, like with how the movie handled the honeymoon.
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:04 |
quote:And yet, to say the truth, Preface quote:Life sucks, and then you die. Finally, brevity. Chapter 8: Waiting for the drat Fight to Start Already Never mind. quote:"Jeez, Paul, don't you have a freaking home of your own? Yes, Stephenie Meyer was so inspired by the epilogue to Eclipse that the entire middle third of the book is from Jacob's POV! quote:I tried to make my voice sound like I wasn’t about to punch him. “Is Rachel here now?” Yeah, Paul is a complete douchebag even when he's not raging out and trying to murder everyone. quote:Nice of him to give me an invitation. I made my body slump like I’d given up. “Right.” Leah, the one who gets done dirty the most. quote:“Ouch. Wow, I bet Leah’s really going to love to hear that you want to spend some quality time with her. It’ll just warm the cockles of her heart.” So Paul is basically a villain of this piece? quote:Wasn’t it bad enough that yet another member of the pack had imprinted—because, really, that made four of ten now! When would it stop? Stupid myth was supposed to be rare, for crying out loud! All this mandatory love-at-first-sight was completely sickening! That might be grounds for murder, actually. quote:When Rachel’d come home from Washington State at the end of the summer semester—graduated early, the nerd—my biggest worry’d been that it would be hard keeping the secret around her. I wasn’t used to covering things up in my own home. It made me real sympathetic to kids like Embry and Collin, whose parents didn’t know they were werewolves. Embry’s mom thought he was going through some kind of rebellious stage. He was permanently grounded for constantly sneaking out, but, of course, there wasn’t much he could do about that. She’d check his room every night, and every night it would be empty again. She’d yell and he’d take it in silence, and then go through it all again the next day. We’d tried to talk Sam into giving Embry a break and letting his mom in on the gig, but Embry’d said he didn’t mind. The secret was too important. Even Billy can't stand this crazy fucker. quote:I wondered—would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up? At least Jacob has more interesting thoughts than Bella, despite the general odiousness of the cast. quote:I threw myself down on the bed. I was tired—hadn’t slept since my last patrol—but I knew I wasn’t going to sleep. My head was too crazy. The thoughts bounced around inside my skull like a disoriented swarm of bees. Noisy. Now and then they stung. Must be hornets, not bees. Bees died after one sting. And the same thoughts were stinging me again and again. That is a contender for one of the worst metaphors I've ever heard. quote:This waiting was driving me insane. It had been almost four weeks. I’d expected, one way or another, the news would have come by now. I’d sat up nights imagining what form it would take. Oh, they smashed. quote:The story would be so tragic—Bella lost in a horrible accident. Victim of a mugging gone wrong. Choking to death at dinner. A car accident, like my mom. So common. Happened all the time. This book is, uh, dark. quote:I could only hope that he’d come back here, within my reach. Yes, that is our protagonist wanting to go and kill some of the only vampires in the world who don't harm anyone (including the greatest surgeon in the world who has been saving lives for centuries) to prevent someone from willingly going to them to be transformed into one. quote:I liked that plan because I knew Edward well enough to know that, if I killed any one of his coven, I would get my chance at him, too. He’d come for revenge. And I’d give it to him—I wouldn’t let my brothers take him down as a pack. It would be just him and me. May the better man win. "Is there any possible way we can re-negotiate since it looks like this could be a hasty deci--" "NO DIPLOMACY KILL NOW" quote:In the other room, Paul brayed like a mule. Maybe he’d switched to a comedy. Maybe the commercial was funny. Whatever. It grated on my nerves. Normally I would consider this a terrifying sign of Jacob having uncontrollable rage problems, but it is Paul.... quote:I tried to listen to other sounds, the wind in the trees. It wasn’t the same, not through human ears. There were a million voices in the wind that I couldn’t hear in this body. That's rich. Today, Forks and La Push have a huge problem with the Twilight fandom leading to the establishment of white-owned gift shops that profit off the racist portrayal of the Quileute. While the tribe has used their newfound fame to galvanize support for their struggles to regain land that was stolen from them, most of the actual money goes to colonizers. quote:I could hear the tide raking across the beach rocks. I could hear the kids squeal as the icy water rushed in too fast for them to get out of the way. I could hear the moms complain about the wet clothes. And I could hear a familiar voice.… The only good thing about this is that Meyer managed to choose a character who she's spent three books establishing as a horrible person so all of Jacob's extreme anger management problems come off as reasonable. quote:I paced down to the shore, my fists in my pockets. Nobody looked at me twice when I went through the dirt lot by First Beach. That was one nice thing about summer—no one cared if you wore nothing but shorts. In case you forgot, Claire is the literal toddler that Quil has imprinted on and is grooming to become his wife. Today, the girl who played her in Breaking Dawn is 13 years old. quote:“Hey, Jake.” Claire squealed and threw her bucket at Quil’s knees. Yeah, that's what she'll be saying with a lot more fear in her tone soon. quote:He set her carefully on her feet and she ran to me. She wrapped her arms around my leg. ....I have nothing. quote:“I can see that. Where’s your mama?” I said to my friend about his love interest. quote:“Threes actually,” Quil corrected. “You missed the party. Princess theme. She made me wear a crown, and then Emily suggested they all try out her new play makeup on me.” Yeah, that's the puke-inducing part. quote:Claire squealed on his shoulders and pointed at the ground. “Pity wock, Qwil! For me, for me!” Jacob is definitely an 8chan poster. quote:Though I did think it sucked that he had a good fourteen years of monkitude ahead of him until Claire was his age—for Quil, at least, it was a good thing werewolves didn’t get older. But even all that time didn’t seem to bother him much. It's extremely obvious how many aspects of werewolves were created by Meyer specifically to provide in-universe justifications for pedophilia. quote:“Quil, you ever think about dating?” I asked. "Please for the love of God stop trying to gently caress children." quote:“Pity wock! Pity wock!” Claire screamed when he didn’t offer her another choice. She smacked him on the head with her little fist. That is technically correct. quote:“Sorry if I was being pushy before, man, about the girl thing,” I said. How in the goddamn did you write this conversation and never once realize what atrocities you were committing to paper? quote:“Put that together with the tiara and makeup, and maybe Claire will have a different kind of competition to worry about.” "You should consider getting yourself a child bride." quote:“I don’t see them, either, Quil. I don’t see their faces.” Please stop saying things forever. quote:“I’ll see what it is. If we need you, I’ll let you know.” I raced through the words. They came out all slurred together. “Hey, why don’t you take her up to the Clearwaters’? Sue and Billy can keep an eye on her if they need to. They might know what’s going on, anyway.” I am getting out of this chapter before I throw hands.
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# ? May 7, 2020 14:06 |
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The random shade casually thrown at Leah is bizarre, especially when she's not even around or shown to be a bother to anyone. Sure, Paul is being a huge rear end in a top hat and thrusting himself into your family, but Billy has to spend time around LEAH. She should just peace out and go hitchhiking like the 70's Incredible Hulk, solving small-town mysteries, exposing a diamond-smuggling ring at a regional zoo, and battling Sasquatch with her werewolf powers.
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# ? May 7, 2020 19:22 |
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Her need to make characters the "bad guy" without making them do anything bad is bizarre. Also i think i blocked out how loving disgusting the imprinting poo poo is.
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# ? May 7, 2020 19:34 |
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The baby talk adds an extra layer to the whole thing.Grammarchist posted:She should just peace out and go hitchhiking like the 70's Incredible Hulk, solving small-town mysteries, exposing a diamond-smuggling ring at a regional zoo, and battling Sasquatch with her werewolf powers. There’s a fanfic (I know) called “The Wedding Crashers” where Leah teams up with the Supernatural guys. Again, I know. But if you spite-follow Twilight like I do it’s cathartic. Don’t recommend reading it until this review is done with though because spoiler city, unless you’re familiar with how this goes.
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# ? May 7, 2020 20:22 |
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Grammarchist posted:The random shade casually thrown at Leah is bizarre, especially when she's not even around or shown to be a bother to anyone. Sure, Paul is being a huge rear end in a top hat and thrusting himself into your family, but Billy has to spend time around LEAH. I think Leah was one of the characters named after Meyer's siblings in law. I'm starting to wonder if it was real-life Leah who leaked her unpublished book.
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# ? May 7, 2020 20:43 |
Grammarchist posted:The random shade casually thrown at Leah is bizarre, especially when she's not even around or shown to be a bother to anyone. Sure, Paul is being a huge rear end in a top hat and thrusting himself into your family, but Billy has to spend time around LEAH. The problem with Leah is that she's the only werewolf with a seriously interesting and unique background. She's the only female ever known to gain the shapeshifting power, something that was so shocking that it caused her father to have a fatal heart attack. While all the boys think that their powers are badass, she's got serious trauma directly related to it. She's also very stressed by the wolf hive mind causing her memories and subconscious to get mixed up, and taking it out on the others by mentally blasting them with uncomfortable tribal drama. But because she's the only wolf who's not happy and isn't being cheerful and friendly about getting forced into the boys club, she's bad and therefore nobody likes her. Despite willingly hanging around with Paul, a man who has literally tried to transform and murder innocent people multiple times for minor slights. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 20:49 on May 7, 2020 |
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# ? May 7, 2020 20:43 |
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:The baby talk adds an extra layer to the whole thing. Thanks, I'll probably check it out when this is done. Reading is my go-to anxiety escape right now and I'm not above cathartic fanfic. Incidentally, Tolstoy's "Family of the Vardoulak" gave me tonal whiplash by painting "undead people watching you sleep" as actually creepy.
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# ? May 7, 2020 20:48 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 02:49 |
I forgot, Leah was also Sam's loyal girlfriend until Sam imprinted on Emily and immediately abandoned her. So the realities of the shapeshifter pack has caused trauma multiple times for her and now she's magically forced to follow her ex's leadership while having all of his thoughts about Emily blasted into her head. The book later goes into even more detail on the physical changes it's caused and the implications of being the first female werewolf. She has every right to be pissed as hell about what's happened to her and all the characters can do nothing but give her poo poo over it for not being sufficiently loyal and cheerful.
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# ? May 7, 2020 20:49 |