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What!? I am so sorry. May he rest in peace, and may his near and dear ones have have comfort. gently caress.
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# ? May 11, 2024 16:11 |
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Just found out from the Florida thread. And yeah, it’s absolutely true he was one of the last real effort posters. All the best to his family and friends.
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# ? Feb 10, 2023 14:31 |
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Very sad. Every thread he made was so well done even for trash fiction like this.
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# ? Feb 10, 2023 18:29 |
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Awful news. He had a wonderful wit, humor and intelligence that came across in whatever he posted about I love the idea of "sporking" books, but nearly every other attempt I've seen has been dire. They have the same problems as people who mock bad movies or games, where their jokes are unfunny and forced, and they focus on boring nitpicks and miss the point of how media can be bad in a funny way But chitoryu12 always had something interesting to say, and he knew when to let the author speak for themselves. A true effort poster, and someone who clearly loved books and talking about what made them work RIP
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# ? Feb 10, 2023 21:42 |
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I don't even know what to say. I haven't read many of his threads here but what I did read was spectacular. Rest in peace, and my deepest sympathy to his friends and family.
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# ? Feb 11, 2023 11:37 |
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:https://www.gofundme.com/f/cody-cromarty-memorial-fund
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# ? Feb 13, 2023 06:59 |
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drat, the man managed to draw a level of interest and information from some real crap (as evidenced in this thread) that really demonstrated a love of writing and the functioning that helped me better understand some of what's so bad about this kind of stuff. I'll miss his posting.
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# ? Feb 13, 2023 14:06 |
Ok, I was going to go ahead and goldmine this thread but I guess there's one chapter left. Does anyone want to handle that last chapter or is it better to just draw a line and say fin ?
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# ? May 10, 2023 20:45 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, I was going to go ahead and goldmine this thread but I guess there's one chapter left. Does anyone want to handle that last chapter or is it better to just draw a line and say Someone picked up the Bond thread and if no one else wants to I'd like to finish this one. It will take me some time, and I won't be as good as chitoryu so if someone else would like to pick it up by all means please get in here!
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# ? May 11, 2023 02:57 |
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chitoryu12 brought us all the way along on this ride; I'll push his work the last few inches to the finish line. Epilogue: An Occasion quote:They kept her in the hospital for six more days. I could tell the time seemed interminable to her. She was anxious to get back to normal life, to be free of the doctors who poked and prodded, to have all the needles out of her skin. Normal as it gets for her, anyway. quote:For me, the time sped by, despite the constant agony of seeing her in the hospital bed, of knowing she was in pain and there was nothing I could do to alleviate any of it. This time was my secured time; it would be undeniably wrong to leave when she was still broken. I wanted to stretch out every second, even though they hurt. But they raced by me. Just wear a paper bag over your head. It's fine. quote:She saw that her mother was restless—uneasy about a long-term substitute job at a Jacksonville primary school that would be given away if she wasn't available soon—but still determined to be with Bella while she was in Phoenix. It wasn't particularly hard for Bella to convince Renee she was just fine and that Renee should go back to Florida. Her mother left two days before we did. Renee still World’s Best Mom. quote:Bella was on the phone with Charlie often, especially after Renee left, and now that the danger was past, now that he'd had time to consider all the angles, he was beginning to be angry. Not at Bella, of course not. His anger was pointed in Though we got a lot of similar stuff I’m still kind of surprised we never saw the hackneyed “dad cleaning shotgun when new boyfriend comes over” scene at any point in here. quote:I tried to avoid more serious conversations with Bella. It was easier than I expected. We were rarely alone—even after Renee left, a constant influx of nurses and doctors took her place—and Bella was often drowsy from the medications. She seemed content enough that I was near. She didn't beg me again for guarantees. But at times I felt sure I saw the doubt in her eyes. I wished I could erase that doubt, that I could mean my promises, but it was better not to speak than Transporting a pickup truck from Phoenix to Seattle runs about $1900 according to haulmatch.com, which is pretty reasonable. I’d drop that much not to have to drive a 40 year old Chevy 1500 miles across mostly desert. quote:How different it was, returning to the same airport where my worst nightmare had begun. We flew out after dark, so the glass ceilings above were no longer a danger. I wondered what Bella saw when she looked at these wide halls—did she think of the pain and terror of the last time she was here, too? No longer racing, we moved slowly, Alice pushing Bella in her wheelchair so that I could walk beside her, holding her hand. Getting your sister to push your girlfriend around in a wheelchair so you can more easily hold her hand while you’re out in town is a look. quote:As I had expected, Bella didn't like needing the chair, nor the curious glances thrown her way. Now and then she scowled at her thick, white cast as if she wanted to tear it off with her bare hands, but she never complained aloud. She slept on the flight, and quietly murmured my name in her dreams. It would have been so easy to ignore the past and allow myself to relive our one perfect day, to stay in a time when the sound of my name on her lips didn't burn with guilt and omens. But the looming separation was too sharp to allow for fantasy. Contemplating the future is just another kind of fantasy, Eddie. Live a little. Very little. quote:Charlie met us at SeaTac, though it was after eleven and the drive back to Forks would take him nearly four hours. Both Carlisle and Alice had tried to talk him out of it, but I understood. And, though his thoughts were just as clouded as before, it was still obvious that I was right. He'd come to put the blame in the right place. Google Maps clocks the drive at three and a half hours. As a cop Charlie has probably dealt with his share of nighttime car wrecks; why drive four hours during the most dangerous time to travel by car when there are a couple dozen inexpensive hotels within a few miles of the airport? If he’s living paycheck-to-paycheck this seems like a moment when the Cullens could drop their Centurion cards and do the Swans a favor even if it means they just stay up all night playing spades while Bella and Charlie rest. Plus Edward gets some more time to indulge in his “staring at Bella while she sleeps” hobby. quote:Not that he harbored any dark suspicions that I'd shoved her down the stairs myself, but rather he felt that Bella would never have acted so impulsively if I hadn't goaded her to it. Though he had a mistaken idea of what had driven Bella to Arizona, he wasn't wrong about the central assumption. It was ultimately my fault. The fun thing about root cause analysis like this is you can make the chain arbitrarily long and assign blame wherever you find it most convenient. You can make it Renee and Charlie’s fault, or make it James’s fault just as “ultimately” as Edward’s. quote:It should have been a long drive behind Charlie's police car, dutifully going exactly the speed limit, but the time was still moving too quickly. Even being temporarily separated from her did nothing to slow down those hours. Seeing the future still OP, it provides instant affinity too. Almost as good as Renesme's gimmick. quote:Bella had been conflicted about school. My immediate image was that she was being escorted around school by 1980s vintage Billy Idol: quote:Bella was unconvinced. “I'm not sure you're doing anything really. I'm just not very exciting. I shouldn't have worried." Midjack fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jun 4, 2023 |
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Midjack posted:Getting your sister to push your girlfriend around in a wheelchair so you can more easily hold her hand while you’re out in town is a look. Now that made me laugh. Eddie's sense of drama is a gift that keeps on giving
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quote:As quickly as Carlisle would allow, she traded in her plaster cast for a walking cast and a pair of crutches. I preferred the chair. It was hard to watch her struggle with the crutches, to be unable to help, but she seemed relieved to be moving under her own power again. After a few days, she grew less awkward. Because watching her struggle with the chair is more of a good time for you? You can help someone on crutches too. Being unhappy about your girlfriend’s increasing independence is more than a little gross. quote:The story circulating through the school was wrong on all counts. Bella's disastrous fall through the hotel window was common knowledge, first spread by Charlie's deputies around the community. But Charlie had been more taciturn about why Bella was in Phoenix. So Jessica Stanley had filled in the gaps—Bella and I had gone to Phoenix together for me to meet her mother. Jessica insinuated this was because our relationship was becoming very serious. Everyone accepted her version; most had already forgotten where the tale had originated. Bella’s best friend Jessica is so eager to see Bella get married off before she has her high school diploma that she makes up the best cover story Bella could ask for. quote:Jessica was left to her own invention for this gossip, as Bella rarely spent much time with her out of class. It was no different than when I'd stopped the van in the very beginning—Bella knew how to be tight-lipped when she wanted to be. Because she’s been so outgoing up until now. quote:And now she sat at our table, with Alice, Jasper, and me. Even with Emmett and Rosalie absent—they pretended to eat outside now, hiding in the car if sunlight threatened—none of the humans braved our presence to join Bella. Just taking their lunch trays into the Volvo, sitting there for a half hour, then getting back out and dumping them into the trash. quote:I didn't like that she was becoming alienated from her former friends, especially Angela, but I assumed that eventually things would go back to how they'd been before I'd intruded on her life. There’s the LDS premortality belief peeking out from around the corner again. quote:It was hard to remember that this feeling, so pure and strong, was a lie. Hard to remember, until she twisted her torso too sharply and winced at her healing ribs, or put her foot down too hard and gasped, or moved her wrist just so and the pale, shiny new scar across the heel of her hand caught the light. quote:Bella healed and time passed. I clung to each second. Alice is seven times as selfish as Edward. Curse her frivolity. quote:Yes, this was a memory that I wanted to have. I'd admitted that to myself. However, my main motive was to modify one specific chapter in Bella's future. It was for her sake that I went along with Alice's bizarre plan. It’s breathtaking in its audacity. You will never believe what Alice is attempting. quote:I had a vision—not like Alice, not a true prophecy. The fake kind of prophecy, instead. quote:It was just a probable scenario. This vision created an intense kind of ache throughout my entire body; it was half agony and half pleasure. quote:I envisioned Bella twenty years from now, maturing gracefully into middle age. Like her mother, she would hold on to the image of youth longer than most, but when the lines came, they would not mar her beauty. I imagined her somewhere sunny in a pretty but simple house that was, unless she changed her ways significantly, filled with clutter. Adding to the clutter would be children, two or three. Maybe one boy with Charlie's curly hair and smile, and a girl who, like Bella, took after her mother. Oh hey, this again. I still think Bella’s “I hope our babies look like Edward and not ugly old me” thing from one of the other books was one of the most subtly messed up things in the whole series and now Edward is doing the same thing here in a knockoff of “The Gift of the Magi”. That or he’s just afraid to imagine the perfidious Mike Newton hitting it. quote:One day when they were young adolescents, younger than Bella was now, perhaps prompted by a teenage rom-com on TV (though Alice had told me that the consumption of media would change quite a bit in the next decade; she was waiting for certain companies to form so she could invest in them), one of the children would ask Bella what her high school prom was like. Alice setting up the funding to cover the Cullens for the next thousand years while Meyer can have her accurately predict events that hadn’t yet occurred when Twilight was written. Twilight was published in late 2005. Facebook was formed in 2004, and YouTube came online in 2005. Netflix pivoted from DVDs by mail to streaming video in 2007. quote:Bella would smile and say, “I wasn't really into dances. I didn't go to prom." And the children would be dissatisfied. Their mother never had any good stories about her teenage years. Hadn't she ever done anything interesting? I have to wonder if the author is drawing on her own experiences as a high schooler again. quote:Bella would have no funny, lighthearted stories, just a dearth of normal experience, just secrecy and danger and tales so fantastical she might one day wonder whether they had ever been more than her imagination. She could talk about her life up until she met you, there are a couple of years of high school behind her before she came to Forks. quote:Or... Bella could laugh when her child asked, and her eyes would suddenly seem far away. Let me guess which movie the author really wanted to see when she was a kid. quote:So it was for that moment in Bella's future that I'd allowed Alice to go through with her pushy and somewhat intrusive plan. More than allowed it. I'd aided and abetted. Prom: the be all end all of the high school girl experience. You're cool if you go but if you don't you'll be boring for the rest of your life and your kids will think you're lame. To be fair they'll probably think you're lame regardless, that's just how teenagers work. quote:And this was how I found myself in a tuxedo—chosen by Alice, naturally; at least I hadn't had to do any of the shopping—a spray of freesia in my hands, waiting at the These flowers are freesia: They’re commonly used in wedding bouquets. Just a coincidence that Edward has them here. quote:I'd seen it all in her head, but she didn't care. She wanted every trite scene from the dramatic pageant that was a human prom. Sheeple.
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# ? Jun 10, 2023 05:24 |
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quote:Alice had given Charlie a heads-up that Bella would be out late, making it clear that she, Alice, would be an integral part of the evening from start to finish. Charlie never objected to anything involving Alice. He often objected to Girlfriend’s dad hates me we got the point already. quote:I listened as Alice helped Bella hobble toward the stairs, Alice's arm around Bella's waist, Bella's arm over Alice's shoulder, leaning on her heavily. Bella had become fairly adept with her crutch but Alice had taken it away from her for tonight. I wasn't sure how much of that was for the aesthetic, and how much was to keep Bella from trying to escape. Probably none of that second one since Bella can’t outrun any of you even at her physical peak. quote:Then, a few steps from the edge of the stairs, Alice squirmed out of Bella's hold and urged her to continue alone. I find this exchange really clunky. Who wouldn’t just say “scene” instead of “picture but I really mean mental picture”? As with Edward picking up on Charlie’s distaste for him, we’ve already seen enough of Bella’s low self-image by this point to know how she feels about herself even if this was somehow our first Twilight book. quote:Well, that worked. Alice noted that Bella's eyes lit up at the mention of my name, and that she moved with an eagerness absent through the entirety of the hair and makeup session. Alice was a little miffed about that. You can’t be that hard to find. quote:I'd seen the dress in Alice's head, but not like this. The thin chiffon was ruched and ruffled to provide a semblance of modesty, but it still clung to her skin in a very distracting way. The design exposed her alabaster shoulders, then fell graceful and sheer down her arms to fold in at her wrists. The body of the dress was gathered in an asymmetrical line that gave her shape subtle hourglass contours. I don’t know enough about clothing design to have much to say here; it seems like a reasonable dress for a high school girl to wear to prom outside it being a designer label as described in the first book. The film seemed to present a fairly accurate adaptation of the dress as described here except that the dress on screen was sleeveless. quote:On one foot, Bella wore a blue satin shoe with a stiletto heel and long ribbons wrapped up her leg to hold it in place. On the other foot, her dingy walking cast. I was a little surprised Alice hadn't painted that blue to match. Alice is smart enough to know that probably won’t work. Any paint that will dry quickly enough and tough enough not to rub off is going to be an inhalation hazard if applied indoors. quote:I stared at Bella while she stared, wide-eyed, at me. They should call you “King Leer.” quote:She glanced down and blushed. Then she shrugged her shoulders as if to say. Well, this is me in a dress. The Cullen house is probably about as safe as it gets, but sure give it that personal touch. quote:“Have fun," Alice called, darting back to her room. She was in her own dress before I'd finished carrying Bella down the stairs. I could hear Rosalie and the others waiting for her —some patiently, some not so much— in the garage. Alice paused to draw on a few stripes of theatrical eyeliner. The editor was out to lunch on this chapter. Even I know that’s not a good description of how eye liner goes on for a formal occasion. We are now at the point where “The Occasion” in Twilight begins, and I have to cut it short this evening so we'll pick up here next post.
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# ? Jun 17, 2023 05:26 |
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We’ve rejoined where the epilogue of Twilight picks up; see chitoryu’s post here covering the entire chapter in a single post to compare what we see here to Bella’s perspective.quote:I brought Bella to the Volvo and settled her carefully into the passenger seat, making sure all her chiffon and ribbons were tucked out of the way of the door. I was surprised by her silence. Now, and before. She'd complained to Alice about being made up, but she'd never voiced any objections to the dance. As she described it earlier her expression seemed pretty annoyed so Edward is just kind of bad at reading expressions, I guess. quote:I examined her face, looking for the joke. Aside from the put-on crabby attitude, she seemed in earnest. I couldn't quite believe she was so oblivious. See, Edward isn’t abusive, he just can’t understand what a clueless rube she is so he’s being completely sincere! quote:She drew in a sudden breath, and I looked for the reason. She was just staring at me. He’s reading her pretty accurately now. quote:Before I could either defend or condemn Alice, my phone rang in my pocket. I pulled it out quickly, wondering whether Alice had more instructions for me, but it was Charlie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3LvhdFEOqs Now we get to hear the other half of the conversation. quote:"You're kidding!" I laughed. You will never keep your immortal vampire conspiracy afloat at this rate. quote:"What is it?" Bella hissed. Meyer doesn’t write Edward being quite as eager to get the owns in on Tyler this time around. quote:I could hear the relief in Charlie's voice when he answered. “Can do." Then he spoke away from the phone. “Here, Tyler, it's for you." Some more drive-by character assassination of Rosalie. quote:The boy's voice broke as he said, “Yeah?" Even in his own head Edward is still an rear end in a top hat. quote:I hung up the call and turned to assess Bella's reaction. More revision by Meyer to make Edward seem less like he’s taking Bella’s agency away. quote:What I'd said was wrong in other ways, too, but not in a way that I thought would upset her. I feel like a lot of the writing in Midnight Sun to make Edward seem less terrible has come at the expense of making everyone else he interacts with seem worse. quote:And now there were actual tears brimming in her eyes and she had one hand clenched around the door handle as though she wanted to throw herself from the car rather than face the horror of a high school dance. The horror! The horror! quote:Unobtrusively, I locked the doors. It’s almost a joke! quote:I didn't know what to say; I hadn't imagined that she could misunderstand. So I said probably the stupidest thing possible under the circumstances. If only we could have known what he was thinking we’d never have rushed to the conclusion that he’s a terrible boyfriend. He’s just a nice guy who makes some mistakes. quote:She stared out the window like she was still thinking of jumping. Again writing like prom is the summit of high school. quote:"Bella,” I said softly. It came across as insistent from Bella’s perspective. Still desperately scrambling to make Edward a good guy. quote:She stared at me for a second longer, with what looked more like adoration than ire, and then shook her head in surrender. ZZ Top blares from the radio. We're about halfway through the epilogue.
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# ? Jun 26, 2023 04:31 |
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quote:"Alice is going to be there?” Edward’s perspective mirrors Bella’s during this exchange. quote:We pulled into the school parking lot, and this time Bella noticed Rosalie's car, parked front and center. She eyed it nervously while I parked a lane over, then got out and walked to her side at human speed. I opened her door and held out my hand. Would it really be that alerting to pick her up? Though he isn’t super swole Edward seems to have a pretty solid build and lifting a fairly small high school girl isn’t beyond belief. He could probably carry her all the way to the building if he didn’t move too quickly and acted a little winded when he set her down inside. quote:Soon enough we were at the cafeteria. They had the doors propped open wide. All the tables had been removed from the long room. The overhead lights were all off, replaced with miles of borrowed Christmas tree lights that were stapled to the walls in an uneven scallop pattern. It was quite dim, but not enough to disguise the outdated decor. The crepe paper garlands appeared to have been used before, faded and creased as they were. The balloon arches were new, though. Even though it wasn’t called out it’s fair to assume the lights were dim when we saw this from Bella’s perspective, that’s a pretty common feature of high school dances. The décor being old and worn is a new detail; I’m not sure what including it here does besides remind us that Edward can see well enough in dim light to pick out subtle details. quote:I continued to move her to the ticket line, but her attention was on the dance floor now. That line is just as gross as it was the first time around. quote:"Edward," she whispered, horror in her voice. She looked up at me with panic-stricken eyes. "I honestly can't dance!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGI2d31M7Ns Featuring a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo of Bella’s truck! quote:Did she think I was going to abandon her in the middle of the floor, and then stand back to watch, expecting a solo performance? She probably did, you’ve been enough of an infantilizing jerk to her that would be a reasonable expectation. quote:"Don't worry, silly," I said gently. "I can.” Again with this fixation. quote:Nope, I'm not going to do it. I'll give the money back. Ugh, this is so embarrassing. Why does my dad have to be the insane one? Why couldn't it be Quil's? More noble savage stereotying. quote:“What is it?” Bella had noticed my sudden abstraction. Not a typo; though I would have expected “distraction” here Meyer may have tried to get fancy with the Latin root of “abstract” meaning “to pull away”. quote:I wasn't ready to answer. I felt a depth of rage that closed my throat. So the Quileutes were going to keep pushing, straining against the treaty they'd made, the treaty that did nothing but protect them. It was as if they couldn't be happy until we did kill someone. They wanted us to be monsters. Two things here. First, most high school proms in the US don’t admit people who aren’t enrolled at the school unless they’re there as guests of students. Second, this internal monologue is pretty close to what the KKK thought about lunch counter sit-ins so scratch another one down on the scoreboard of “kinda racist”. quote:Bella twisted in my arms to see what I was looking at. Again, doing this kind of thing at a high school dance gets you intercepted by the chaperones. quote:Should've worn some garlic, I guess. He snorted. Keeping the retroactive character assassination of Jacob going. quote:“Hey, Bella, I was hoping you would be here." It was obvious this was the exact opposite of what he'd been hoping. Yes these Native Americans really know their place around the old European families. quote:I knew my anger was pointless, and it certainly wasn't directed at this blameless boy, but I couldn't quite keep it in check. Rather than let either of them hear it in my voice, I just set Bella gently on her feet and stepped away. Given everything we’ve read I expected him to get mad at Jacob for disrespecting Alice’s choice of perfume. quote:“Wow, Jake, how tall are you now?" I heard her say. She has a broken leg and Edward had to move her feet for her. Besides, this is what high school dancing is unless someone took lessons and is showing off. Like the other vampires, for instance. There are probably not a lot of ballroom dancing instructors in La Push. quote:“So, how did you end up here tonight?" There was no real curiosity in her voice. She'd already figured out what this intrusion meant. More revisionism to make Jacob seem worse than he did in the first book. He was not eager to disclose this when we saw this scene earlier. quote:“Yes, I can," she said, her voice still kind, though it must have been annoying to have a near stranger trying to supervise her life. Not that Edward would know anything about that, of course. quote:She's being so nice about this. She's the nicest girl I know. Unlike all the women in La Push? quote:“Well, I hope you're enjoying yourself, at least," Bella continued. “Seen anything you like?" She nodded playfully to a line of girls standing along the wall to my left. No mention of the girl that Bella noticed checking Edward out. So much for the superior vampire senses.
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quote:Jacob sighed, moved by her smile. I wish he was a vampire. That might make some room for me. No significant deviations from the first time we saw this scene, though Meyer does specifically note Bella’s rapidly swinging moods. quote:"I know," Jacob agreed quickly. He didn't want to think about Bella dying. A swell of gratitude started to build inside his mind. He wouldn't listen the next time his father said something disparaging about Carlisle. Yes... ha ha ha… yes! We have groomed Jacob to ignore his dad! quote:It was strange how much older he seemed tonight. They looked like peers now, maybe just because of his new height. As awkward as her injured leg made their dance-adjacent movement, she seemed more comfortable with him than with many of her other human friends. Perhaps his very pure, open mind had that effect on people. Pure, uncut 100% mind. quote:A strange thought crossed my mind, half imagination, half fear. Why do you care, you already decided you had to get away from her for her own good! quote:I shook the idea away. It was just irrational jealousy. Jealousy was such a human emotion, powerful but senseless —based on nothing more than watching her pretend to dance with a friend. I would not let the future trouble me. Sure you won’t. quote:"Hey, I'm sorry you had to come do this, Jacob," Bella was saying. "At any rate, you get your parts, right?" Can’t just let the encounter tail out naturally; Eddie has to be large and in charge and remind Jake whose property Bella is. quote:Jacob recoiled from my voice, so unexpectedly close. He took a step back, a sharp frisson of fear shooting up his spine. I don’t know if the repetition is deliberately trying to invoke the vampiric OCD trope that sometimes comes up in other works or if it’s just Meyer reminding us about Edward’s status every other paragraph. quote:She nestled her cheek against my chest, humming with contentment. Two out of three ain’t bad. quote:I needed to force myself into the right frame of mind. He’s not a controlling boyfriend, he’s just continually making these hilarious jokes that are sailing right over her head. quote:She waited for me to explain. Just can’t let it go. quote:I changed the direction of our dance, spinning her toward the back exit. We circled past a few of her friends. Jessica waved, unhappily comparing Bella's dress to her own, and Bella smiled back. None of her human classmates seemed totally happy with their night besides Angela and Ben, staring blissfully into each other's eyes. That made me smile, too. We forego the roll call of Bella’s friends here. quote:I pushed the door open with my back, still dancing. There was no one outside, though the night was very mild. The clouds to the west still held a fading bit of gold from the setting sun. Crawling in my skiiiiiiin quote:I sighed, and then answered her question. “I brought you to the prom because I don't want you to miss anything. I don't want my presence to take anything away from you, if I can help it. I want you to be human. I want your life to continue as it would have if I'd died in nineteen-eighteen like I should have." Just keep badgering your partner until she caves to your whims. quote:She sighed. Her eyes traced across the silver clouds. Again, sheeple. quote:I tried to smile, but that just irritated her. There was a lot less examination of Bella’s thoughts when we saw this scene from her perspective. In this epilogue especially we are getting a lot more inner monologue from Edward in the attempt to revise away the abusive behavior we were shown earlier. quote:"And you're really that willing?" I asked. Agreed! quote:I already knew she didn't count her human losses. And she had definitely never considered eternal losses. No one was worth that. Failed comedian Edward is giving abusive Edward a run for the money here; I dislike both portrayals equally. quote:She relaxed. Her heart slowed. “A girl can dream," she said. This makes it seem like Edward’s view of existence is confused between the short view and the long view but I think it’s just unclear writing; now is all the two of them have together while in contrast Edward has forever without her. This probably seemed really profound when Meyer was writing it. quote:As the night finally overcame the end of the day, I leaned forward again and kissed the warm skin of her throat. This ends at the same point that Twilight does. We’re finished.
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# ? Jul 9, 2023 03:50 |
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Thanks for giving me the opportunity to finish the book. It was a challenge merely transcribing the book and injecting some light commentary and occasional minor research; chitoryu12 did this much more quickly and detailed than I did and for two series simultaneously! I was nowhere near as good as he was, and I'd love to have heard his thoughts about the series as a whole once he got to the end of this one. We never met but I'll miss you, chitoryu12. Be at peace, wherever you are now.
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# ? Jul 9, 2023 03:54 |
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Thanks for taking that on, Midjack.
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# ? Jul 9, 2023 04:53 |
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Thanks for wrapping this up, you did a good job! Btw, is there some way to easily find chitoryu's threads? I know he did RP1 and James Bond but I wanted to check out his other stuff
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# ? Jul 9, 2023 10:51 |
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macabresca posted:Thanks for wrapping this up, you did a good job! Maybe ask in the TECH forum; astral the forums coder is active there and can probably tell you how if it's possible, or maybe even run a database query if you can't do it as a user. https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=676
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Unfortunately I have to share some sad news. Another forum I frequent has special titles for users who have passed away. May I suggest adding a gangtag or something like that, and giving it to chitoryu12? (And other posters that we're aware have passed away.)
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 13:50 |
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Megazver posted:Another forum I frequent has special titles for users who have passed away. There's a SAD thread where similar ideas have been discussed.
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# ? May 11, 2024 16:11 |
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Goldmined. Rip Chitoryu, and thanks Midjack. In terms of gangtags for dead goons, it's been considered and rejected as a little weird, there's a thread in SAD where deceased goons can be noted though.
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