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cto10121 · 3 months

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Finally bought a copy of Midnight Sun!!! Or as I like to call it, Twilight’s subtext as actual text because people suck at reading comprehension. Honestly, with every reread the book gets better and better. And of course, I have des notes (Part 1, since this tome is long):

I love how Edward is so obviously interested in her even before he smells her scent. That ~strange urge to step between her and Jessica’s vicious thoughts…buddy

Also love me some Arrogant!Edward, especially at the beginning—the Mr. Darcy vibes truly are impeccable, and it makes total sense for this narrative. The stupid clowns and anti fans hate it, but it is absolutely essential to his character arc towards humility/self-acceptance. It’s called character development, bitch

Edward: “She is an ordinary human girl, nothing special, she isn’t even pretty” Also Edward literally the second time he sees her: “She has oddly deep brown eyes, the color of milk chocolate, but with the clarity of strong tea, with flecks of caramel and agate green and now she is tossing her luscious mahogany hair at me and now her delicious scent is wafting like delicate perfume—” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Clowns: “Edward doesn’t like Bella for herself, he just likes her scent!!!1!” Edward: *absolutely REFUSES to go into detail about her scent, just its effect on him* Yeah. Strange, but revealing. In Twilight he does say it’s like freesia, and Laurent says it’s “floral, somehow.” The metaphor for sexual desire and even predation is there, suggested by Edward’s obvious romantic interest, but narrative-wise Meyer firmly separates the two and even has Edward conquer his own selfish instincts in order to be together with Bella. In that framing, Bella’s scent becomes another obstacle to overcome to reach true romance, and that fact alone makes Twilight better than 90% of romances lol

I don’t think I mentioned this before, but Meyer’s Spanish is surprisingly legit so far. I’ve literally read worse Spanish by Chicano and Latino writers, without accent marks and everything. Although I must say, they always have these Spanish high school teachers insist on having the whole class speak Spanish. It’s such a cliché, but a charming one, I guess

Edward hearing about Emmett’s cantante encounter and thinking, “Yeah, no, this is worse” is such an unintended flex, imo. Homeboy really was dealing with the worst vampire thirst ever and he actually succeeded in overcoming that enough to dick her down. Kudos

Edward thinking about Bella on her wedding day to some stranger and feeling pained—boy, it’s been three days!!!!! Birds of a feather flocking together

“A word I’d never said before in the presence of a lady—” This is the line that made the antis go crazy????? That a vampire from 1901 and frozen in that state would speak and act like he was from 1901????? Antis are so damn stupid

“I liked that I’d finally guessed right. That I was beginning to understand her.” Honestly? So far Edward has been very good at reading her body language and her feelings, almost from the get-go. Some specifics and quirks elude him, and he almost completely misses her attraction to him, but almost everything Bella is feeling from Twilight he also picks up on. So the Team Jacob fans that insist that Jacob is better because he is a better reader of Bella may not have that much of an argument after all

“Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. Like an obsessed vampire stalker.” And like Bella, Edward is iconically hilarious in the best way possible. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Aaaaaand Alice has her Vampire!Bella vision and everyone is 😮 at Edward falling for Bella. Still wish that Edward would be in denial of his obvious feelings for a while longer, since it’s so much fun

Not antis complaining about how Midnight Sun’s added scenes on Bella’s selflessness and her friends being awful were ~retcons by Meyer…bitch, in Twilight it was clear as day her friends were fake. Normal, but fake. Angela excepted. And Bella’s kindness/self-abnegation was more than established, although there it was focused mostly on Bella’s shielding Angela from Jessica’s prying and setting up Mike/Jessica.

“Obviously the meteorite was just a metaphor for all the unlikely things that could go wrong.” Obviously, but your antis have never been the sharpest tools in the shed in terms of reading comprehension, Edward, so don’t even bother—oh, you meant yourself. Meyer definitely is doing some meta here.

“Edward…Stay.” God, I do want to see this scene dramatized in the TV show in an Edward POV flashback episode. Imagine Edward wrestling silently with his self-loathing, about to leave her room and possibly Bella for good, and then Bella speaks his name. He whirls around, shocked, and the way it’s framed the viewer almost believes she has woken up, but Bella is obviously sleeping. And telling him to stay. And Edward being all 😮 🥺 💗Beautiful…except the TV show would absolutely ruin it somehow

Edward not realizing that Bella is (obviously) turned on by him is just perfection. He is as oblivious to his own beauty as Bella is to hers and it makes for a great parallel. Only difference is he does contemplate whether Bella is attracted to him a little

“Staring at her mouth made me feel strange.” I swear, Edward is so much more naïve than Bella about anything romance. Homegirl owned her crush and acquitted herself very well all things considered. Meanwhile Edward is emotionally flailing like an angsty Kermit every single page, doing a “I wonder why?” every few seconds

“Sometimes, when he stares at me, I’d swear he’s thinking of killing me. Freak. Mike wasn’t entirely unperceptive.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“She wore a deep blue blouse today” It has begun

“Bella winked?” Yes, Edward, and so did you, you fucking V tease. Both of you wink at people because you two are birds of a feather, flocking together. Two dorks, both alike in love clownery

Edward 🤝 Juliet —> “Soft perfection” & “Dear perfection” Don’t think I didn’t notice, Meyer!!!

The flirtatious waitress!!! Am enjoying her so much more this time around. Usually I like Bella’s Port Angeles chapter than Edward’s, but this shit reads great in both POVs

“Aside from my worries about her sanity, I began to feel a swelling of hope” 10/10 sentence, no notes

“She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.”🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 “I could not dream of her. She should not dream of me.” 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Edward empathizing with Angela and wanting to pair her up with Ben (and succeeding!) warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. It’s so great that his 100-year-old cold haughty shell is finally melting and giving way to the 17-year-old simp he is

“Running a house is time-consuming, and I usually had a part-time job, too, not to mention school—” Fuck anyone who hates Bella because she is ~boring, fuck them to hell and back. Homegirl was run so ragged she didn’t have time for herself, much less date. It’s a wonder she had hobbies to begin with (Edit: Aaaaaand the reason Bella hates birthdays is because her mother was shitty at giving her what she wanted and she had to pretend to like them. The fuck)

But on that note, I’m really loving all of Bella’s answers to Edward’s questions, almost easily the best part of the book, and canon-compliant with Twilight. Bella herself comes out as much more winsome, bright, and quirky through Edward’s perspective, traits that were less emphasized in her POV for obvious reasons. Even the stupid antis acknowledge that

Clown Antis: “Edward ~forced her to leave everything she wanted!1!1!!1” Literally Edward: “I realized how important it was for me to know her plans for the future. So I didn’t derail them. So I could shape this unlikely future into the best version to suit her.”

Bella being initially alarmed at Edward in the sun is possibly a retcon. In Twilight she did say the sight was “shocking,” but I thought it was mostly in a romantic way. But it does make sense lore-wise that she would think of him on fire at first. This is Edward’s POV, so he could just be assuming that is Bella’s alarm. Still, I wonder why Bella would skip over the extended “You aren’t repulsed by my flagrant lack of humanity?” exchange. I guess she took it for granted she wasn’t afraid????

Edward counting insects in the meadow etc. is just so…not really hilarious in context. The parodies made it seem like he was some neurodivergent nerd. In actual context he was just trying to distract himself from Bella’s scent.

“Better to see myself as the whole, bad and good, and work with the reality of it.” So mature and much better than anything else in this genre. Edward is growing and learning

“Regardless, I have better reflexes.” You’re (still) a whore, Edward. Nice to know that hasn’t changed.

#twilight #twilight renaissance #cristina reads #midnight sun #edward is so juliet capulet-coded #when you know you know #play a drinking game every time edward mentions her blue blouse #the antis trying desperately to say this book was bad is laughable #otoh the people who say it is better than twilight are also clowns too #i think both are necessary and have their own power #both have similar arcs of finding and accepting love for themselves as well as each other #overcoming their self-esteem issues #bella finds the love and acceptance she needed and edward learns humility

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mllekurtz · 5 months

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He's often called a monster, but he's not a monster. A monster is an exception, an outsider, someone society doesn't have to be responsible for. But society is responsible here. These "monsters" are not sick: they're healthy children of the patriarchy, of rape culture. Rape culture condones those behaviors that damage and oppress women, starting from things we don't recognize as important but are: controlling behavior, possessiveness, catcalling. All men are privileged by this culture. "Not all men," they often say. Not all men, no, but they're always men. A man can’t be good if he doesn't do anything to demolish a society that makes him so privileged. In this patriarchal society that gives them so much privilege and so much power, men are responsible for educating friends and colleagues when they hear the smallest hint of sexist violence. Say it to your friend who controls his girlfriend, say it to your colleague who catcalls passers-by, make yourself hostile to behaviors that are condoned by society and are the prelude to femicide. Femicide is state murder, because the state is not on our side. The State doesn't protect us. Femicide is not a crime of passion, it is a crime of power. We need widespread sexual and emotional education; we need to teach that love is not ownership. We need to support anti-violence institutions, and we need to give whoever needs it a chance to ask for help. For Giulia, not a minute's silence. For Giulia, burn everything down.

(Elena Cecchettin’s open letter after her sister Giulia’s femicide. In the last sentence she quotes Peruvian poet architect Cristina Torres Cáceres: If it's me tomorrow, if tomorrow I don't come back, mother, tear everything down. If it happens to me tomorrow, I want to be the last one." Read a good article about it (in Italian) and an English one. All translations are mine.)

#i couldn't say why i felt personally touched by this story since it's unfortunately not that different from too many others #but every female friend and family member i talked to these days has been thinking about it #and when i heard this letter read out loud in one of my podcasts this morning it dawned on me that for perhaps the first time #i heard these topics talked about in my mother tongue #and it moved something in me #(i own the choice of removing the name of the murderer from it btw. this is about him but he doesn't get to take more space)#news #politics #rape culture #giulia cecchettin #elena cecchettin #cristina torres caceres #burn everything down #long post #thanks roadie for helping me out with the translation

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wikitpowers · 3 months

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okay i just got to know there are extended qooad scenes as well!! Would it be possible for you to make a master post with all the extended scenes links. Its perfectly fine if you can't, thank you anyway and sorry for bothering you again <3

u mean like for only the tda series?

if u do only mean tda (iconic if u ask me) then instead of doing a master post with all the links (which would probably take YEARS bc i’m crap at this stuff), i will give u a link to the shadowhunters wiki page which has them all in order + explained! it’s quite a few stories & extras and it’s super fun to see the cut and extended scenes which didn’t make it to the books!

also ur not bothering me! it’s super fun getting asks and screaming about stuff together dw🫶🏻

#this link has a LOT of content #and it’s amazing…#have fun reading muahahaah😈#emma carstairs #julian blackthorn #cristina rosales #mark blackthorn #kieran kingson #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #dru blackthorn #livvy blackthorn #the dark artifices #the shadowhunter chronicles #tda #tsc

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emily-prentits · 8 months

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addison wrote a letter in meredith's defense for her hearing. do you KNOW how much this means to me

#going FERAL. going INSANE.#like im glad alex read cristinas letter bc i miss her but i would KILL to read what she wrote in that letter #this and 'did meredith send you to check up on me?' keep my meddison shipper heart alive in these trying times #meddison #meredith grey #addison montgomery #grey's anatomy #thea talks

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bytheangell · 8 months

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I’m begging for number 33 with kierarktina please literally anything

(Read on AO3)

Cristina knows the rules of the Unseelie Court are different than the ones she's used to living and abiding by. They're harsher and more unforgiving - for beings so reliant on tricks and subtle wordings, they lack the good-natured trait of sympathy when wronged.

She spends more and more time in the Unseelie realm, despite not truly belonging there, because she does belong with Mark and Kieran. It's a delicate line to walk for a Nephilim. Often times she will come and go from the cabin they share without any interaction with the other fey. Everyone knows who she is and that she isn't to be touched.

Other Nephilim aren't so lucky, especially when they trespass into the Unseelie realm uninvited.

When there's a knock on the door it's Kieran who goes to answer. There's a hushed conversation, the sound of a scuffle, and then the door closes again. When Kieran returns to her he's no longer wearing the soft, relaxed smile he had minutes before when they lay side by side in bed. Cristina knows this look, and she despises it.

The expression on Kieran's face now is one of reassigned regret, of a duty he carries out in part obligation, part genuine attempt to do good. Cristina isn't naive enough to think that means he won't have to make difficult decisions, ones she doesn't understand or agree with.

“Keep your hands over your ears, do you hear me? Even when the noises stop. Don’t listen.”

Kieran's instructions bring a chill through Cristina. She's about to question why when Mark enters the room with a quick, silent nod to Kieran before taking his place in the bed beside Cristina.

She feels his arms wrap around her, pulling her head down into his chest. "I'm so sorry you have to be here for this," he says.

"For what?" Cristina asks, but the anguished scream that reaches her from outside is all the answer she needs. She brings her hands up to her ears, pressing down into the pillow to help muffle the cries for mercy.

They must deserve this, whoever they are, whatever they've done. They must, because it takes a lot for Kieran to cave to the pressure of committing such acts of punishment.

Of torture.

Mark holds her tighter, one hand combing through her hair with his fingers. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," he repeats.

She's a Nephilim. She's no stranger to pain or the danger of being caught on a mission. She understands, as much as she wishes she didn't. Maybe that's just another thing Mark's sorry about - the fact that she does understand. That she isn't innocent enough for this to be enough to send her fleeing the other direction.

Love is strange that way. You rationalize away now than you normally would. You accept things you wouldn't from any other person. It's enough to know that they have no real choice.

It's enough to know that they could never do it to you.

Every so often Cristina thinks the screaming is over, only to be proven wrong the moment she moves her hands away from her ears.

Eventually, the screams stop. The front door opens and closes, and then the quiet sobs begin. Cristina wonders if these are the sounds Kieran doesn't want her to hear the most.

When he finally comes back to bed she can feel the weight of the night on him. Turning, she wraps her arms around him, giving a tight squeeze filled with as much comfort and reassurance she can manage. She feels his muscles relax under her touch, his breathing slow and stabilize.

"I'm sorry," she whispers, echoing Mark's words from earlier. "I'm so sorry."

It isn't enough, but for now, it's all they have.

#tsc #tda #kierarktina #kieran kingson #cristina rosales #mark blackthorn #elle writes a few deadbeat lines #ask rune #lavender-scented-rat #it's been way to long since i read these books #i hope this isn't wildly out of character #long post

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