#smeyer's the host

[painting-peaks]

Ian O'Shea really said "I would still love you if you were a worm" and he MEANT it bless his heart

#the host #the host 2013 #the host stephanie meyer #stephanie meyer #smeyer #ian oshea #ian o'shea #ian x wanda #ian o'shea x wanda #smeyer the host #smeyer's the host #would you still love me if i was a worm

[sun-ni-day]

#Yes he would #and he did #ian o'shea #jake abel #The Host #smeyer's the host #Such a pretty worm #itecontest

[justheretopetyourdog]

Mel: I have an idea.

Wanda: No murder.

Mel: I no longer have an idea.

#source: i dont remember #the host #the host 2013 #the host (2013) #smeyers the host #smeyer's the host #stephenie meyer's the host #stephenie meyer #melanie stryder #wanda the host #wanderer the host #wanda host #wanderer host #wanderer/wanda #wanderer

[whydoistilllikethehost]

‘til we die, it’s just you and I

until the end of time we will be together

‘Til We Die - Juniper Vale and Vian Izak 

#smeyer's the host #smeyer the host #wanderer #wanda #ian o'shea #fan edit #the host fan edit #the host movie #o'wanda fan edit #This is the first time I've tried anything like this if memory serves! #I hope it turned out okay #here's hoping tumblr doesn't have a meltdown about it #anyway #in love with them #absolutely losing it over Jake Abel's expression work #the tenderness??? the surprise???? #I'm overwhelmed

[manonbeakblack]

a host playlist in 3 parts (inc. the obviously much-anticipated vinyl release. Isn't that so nice and a normal thing to do??)

🎧 apple music

thx to @whydoistilllikethehost for sourcing the screenshots so I didn't have to

#this is how everyone does their playlists #right #...right? #in my defence I am having an extremely boring week at work #ok look i did get carried away #there are vinyl booklet pages too #i never said i wasn't intense about things #the host #wanda x ian #smeyer's the host #wanderer #ian o'shea

[meyneths]

I can't get over the fact that Wanda like. Goes into detail about other species she's been and what not and how though she's technically female, the souls don't really have genders AND I JUST. stephanie meyer sweetie I'm not sorry but any alien romance is gonna be queer as hell I can't save you

#ian is a bi king and i stand by that #smeyer's the host

[ianosheas]

not to come for smeyer's weird age gap beliefs but i think that wanda's final form should have been someone a little older/around the same age as ian (in her late 20s/early 30s). mel being young makes sense in the story but not wanda.

there was deadass no point to infantilizing her besides "making her seem innocent" to people who were already beginning to trust her, and the whole point!! of wanda!! is that she's not some young soul!! she's old, could be a mother, has seen the universe and never quite fit in.

that poor soul could and should have been given a body to match her actual personality, and jamie should not have been allowed to pick her body. mel should have, the very person who knew wanda inside and out.

#i could go into heavy detail about how much wanda should have been given a woman with teacher vibes #and i will-- #eza.txt #smeyer's the host #wanda #the host

[onespacedown]

A couple of my longstanding headcanons for The Host. I'm curious what y'all in the fandom think:

"The Seeker" is the Seeker's actual name. Not sure if this one is already common consensus or not, but Souls seem to usually take names based on their experiences, and this is the Seeker's first world. She doesn't have many of those experiences to reference, and it probably feels awkward to reference those of her mother. She could take the name of her host, but she's terrified of humans and of losing herself to her host. So what does she have? Her whole existence has been Seeking. She is the Seeker. No one else ever uses any other name for her because she has no other name.

The world of the See-Weeds orbits Proxima Centauri. I always felt like this was the intended implication. It's stated to be approximately a decade's round trip. If we're assuming that Soul ships travel at or near the speed of light, that means it's about 5 light years away. (I realize that relativity probably makes this funky, but I don't think that Meyer was considering that when she wrote it, so neither will I. Besides, if superluminal travel is in play, then it's probably assumed that they have a way around that.) Proxima Centauri is a little over four light years away, and the barycenter of the Alpha Centauri system is a bit further. Now, if we're assuming they're traveling at subluminal but extremely hyperrelativistic speeds, then the math just about checks out perfectly. In addition, the planet of the See-Weeds is stated to orbit a trinary stellar system. Now, Proxima Centauri wouldn't be meaningfully visible from a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A or B, but both stars would be noticeably bright from a planet orbiting Proxima.

And, just for fun, a third headcanon I held for a long time, but now concede doesn't really stand up to scrutiny:

3. The Origin is a gas dwarf, probably a mini-Neptune. We know that the Origin is noted for it's colorful cloud bands, which is a phenomenon iconic to gas giants. The original hosts were capable of flight, which would be a necessity on a gaseous planet. We can also infer from the existence of the cryotanks that the Origin is significantly colder than Earth, though that's less clear -- the point of the cold could be cryogenic cryptobiosis.

Still, this isn't especially likely, for the simple reason that Souls themselves are not flight capable. The pressures that would be required to let them swim through the atmosphere would probably necessitate higher temperatures than they're implied to be suited for, as well. It's still conceivable that this could be true if there were floating masses of vegetation in the atmosphere to serve as something like a surface, but it's far more likely the Origin is a terrestrial world, alas.

#smeyer's the host

[wandererfromthestars]

not me in the year of our lord 2023 falling back into my hyperfixation with The Host yet again

#the host #listen i bought this book right when it came out and i've always loved it #but i go years at a time forgetting it exist and then once i remember i go in hard for this book again #smeyer's the host

[dasmel]

re-read The Host by Stephenie Meyer and it still slapped just like when i read it in high school (even though i am now painfully aware of the book’s flaws as a 24yo agh) i always loved ian o’shea and i’m glad to see he still holds up <3 got the post book depression now lol open to chatting about the host :)

*okay but it was also so nice to read adult fiction so i didn’t have to worry about age but then i DID have to worry about age when smeyer wrote in the 17yo and 26yo relationship and also put wanda in a 16yo body UGH

#smeyer the host #the host #my fixation went from six of crows to the host and now im gonna choose the hunger games next #ian o'shea #wanderer #o'wanda

[sweetbee0108]

being in a dead fandom is so sad all i want is ian x wanda smut but noOoOo smeyer's best book came after the twilight series so either everyone was hooked on or bashing that with no time to read a book about a love square during an alien invasion

the movie is great imo but the book is infinitely better

#the host #ian oshea #ian x wanda #wanda x ian #smeyer #stephanie meyer #the host movie #jared howe #melanie stryder

[quadrantadvisor]

What if I scripted Stephanie Meyer's "The Host" into a TV show, and I kept all the rad as fuck sci-fi concepts and the messaging about human love and resilience, but I removed all the nasty bioessentialism and openly advocating for teen girls to date adult men. What then?

Probably would keep the focus on Wanda and Melanie's relationship, rather than the love square/jealousy plot. I never liked how after Melanie started "fading" in the book she basically became a nothing character. Also the way she completely lost all sense of self and/or rationality whenever her dude was around was uh. Dumb.

Also the cast of the human survivors are so potentially interesting, but we never spend any time with them. They could have sub-plots! We could get to know them! The funeral scene of that one guy would be way more emotionally effective if he like. Actually had a character before dying.

We're keeping all the alien species as they were described, like the telepathic underwater plants, or the polar bears with hand blades, or the bats who communicate entirely by singing. Also benevolent parasitic communism. That's good as is.

But yeah every scene with Jared or Ian needs to be at least slightly reworked, so we can get them to the level of "flawed yet compelling" instead of "irredeemable assholes". And we're aging Melanie up a few years, that's going to solve a lot of our problems from the get go.

Uncle Jeb and Jamie are mostly good, they can stay. And the basic plotline of the human characters being rightfully terrified of Wanderer because of what her species has done to the human race, but as a result mistreating her, since there's no way for her to adequately communicate she's not a threat to them, and then slowly learning to accept and to trust. Honestly that slaps. I love when characters get the shit beat out of them because of Circumstances. I love when people who think that they have to be enemies, because they have every reason to be, because not only are they on opposing sides but they have actively harmed one another already, decide to become family instead. Favorite storyline, has the same vibes as that one ATLA fanfic where Zuko's taken captive on a water tribe ship, y'all know what I'm talking about [you likely do not know what I am talking about].

Basically The Host would be one of my favorite books ever if it didn't suck so bad. Also no one ever cared about the movie adaptation. A TV show could be so kickass. Thank you for attending my ted talk.

#i was looking through my drafts #it is mostly unfinished fandom rants #this one was already done though #why didn't i post it? presumably i was embarassed to be talking about stephanie meyer's the host #as i probably should be #also i dont know how to tag it because it's half negative #meh oh well #i will do my worst #stephanie meyer #stephanie meyer's the host #smeyer the host #oh also apparently twilight is getting a tv show??????? #so maybe this is even relevant??????????????? #stephanie meyer negative

[justheretopetyourdog]

Wanda: You stabbed him?!

Mel: In my defense, you didn't hear what he said.

Wanda: What did he say?

Mel: "What are you going to do? Stab me?"

Jared: I'm with Mel on this. That's practically an invitation.

#source: unknown #smeyers the host #the host #the host 2013 #stephenie meyer's the host #stephenie meyer #the host (2013) #smeyer's the host #melanie stryder #jared howe #wanda the host #wanderer #wanderer the host #incorrect quotes

[whydoistilllikethehost]

After a few minutes, I saw a bright, familiar sign in the distance. I took a deep breath and wiped my eyes clear. 

"Ian, could you do me a favor?" 

"Anything you want." 

"I want fast food." 

To me, this was a sort of a last meal - the final gift to the condemned.

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#the host #the host fanart #smeyer's the host #Ian O'Shea #wanda #wanderer #o'wanda #Jared Howe #I always find this small scene somehow so so sad whenever I reread #Just imagining it #Like literally. that is the most human thing I can even think of #Like yes you're going to die. Yes your body will be rotting in the ground #Yes there will be a day when you can't have strawberry shakes and fries and yes that day is coming #And yes that means today is the day to have the strawberry shake and fries and hamburger and watch the Arizona sunset out of the car window #and love your body and your self and your friends #and the feeling of life in your lungs and the #salt of tears on your face and the laughter choking in your throat and the warm feeling in your chest when you smile #and the taste of strawberry shakes and fries and the taste of strawberry shakes and fries and the taste #anywy #frenchie rambles

[manonbeakblack]

Silver Fire (18,008 words)

Two aliens fall in love after the end of the world.

- OR -

Ian's POV of The Host.

#can't believe I spent all week writing The Host ff in the Year of Our Lord 2023 #The Host #wanda x ian #Ian O'Shea #Wanderer #literally back on my tumblr bs for this #stephenie meyer #smeyer's the host #o'wanda

[meyneths]

complacency (1,481 words)

They would live their last life as Melanie and Jamie’s sister, Ian’s girlfriend, Wanda.

And truthfully, they could die okay with that.

OR;

Wanderer thinks about gender.

#smeyer's the host #kit writes #i saw someone format their post like this and it was nice sdjkgfhsjdkghsdg thank u manonbeakblack