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it's time for aro's big naturals
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Something interesting about Twilight is that the main group of vampires aren't even like THAT old?
I mean yeah there are Carlisle and Jasper who are more the ages you'd expected vampires to be in a story like this; well into their immortality, long past the time they might have lived if they had stayed human. But even then compared to Amun and Kebi, or the Denali sisters, or the Volturi leaders, Jane and Alec, Demetri, even most of his friends, Carlisle's like . . . a teenager. Jasper's barely a tween.
The others are little vampire babies! The books take place in 2005. Esme, the next oldest, was born in 1895. If she had stayed human theoretically she could have still been alive. She'd be 110, but it's possible. Alice and Edward were both born in 1901. They're each 104. Again, unlikely, but within the realm of possible for a human lifespan. Rosalie and Emmett were born in 1915. They'd be 90. We're getting into "yeah I have a relative that age" territory now.
They aren't that old. They've barely tasted immortality. Sure they've seen a lot of social change and everyone they knew in their youth is dead, but that's the same sort of experience that 105 year old grandpas in a nursing home have had. There were cars and telephones when five of the Cullens were human. They went to the movies. They aren't all that old.
"How long have you been 17?"
". . . a while."
"Yeah I get that, but how old are you really?"
"I'm turning 104 this year."
". . . that's it?"
"Are you not horrified?" "I mean Charlie's neighbor across the street is 102."
"Still does her own gardening."
"I think I saw her driving last week."
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I wish Bella had spent more time in the supermarket as the series progressed. Big fan of the supermarket scene in the first book. Would've loved her to have a silent crisis in the soup aisle
[tags reading: I need to see Bella take Edward to the supermarket and how he turns up his nose at the human food. He goes with her anyway because he cannot be away from her. Bella tries to find out what his favourite food was as a human. Bella asks if any of the food smells better than she does (lol)]
Prev I'm gonna latch onto this because you've suddenly made me think how much I want to Edward's insistence that Bella appreciates every human thing while she can turned back on him in the worst way
Bella becomes obsessed with learning things about his childhood, his neighbourhood, what he liked what he didn't like. And bit by bit, because Bella is drawing it out of him, it comes back. What his mother used to make on a Sunday after church. How him and the neighbourhood kids used to turn their noses up at the pie Mrs Jones always used to bring to any street party/potluck. How it felt to be vulnerable. How it felt to wonder what everyone around him was thinking, carefully studying each face to figure out a furrowed brow or the hint of a smile.
And together, they find out that it's not some weird, special vampire thing. Remembering life as a human is painful to Edward, they're memories quietly put to the side to make the eternal future that bit more manageable
How this feeling weaves its way into the push and pull between whether Bella should become a vampire? Maybe that's for someone who's not meant to be working rn to think about
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Ok I made a fun one for the fun side of tumblr! Youβre propositioned by this person at the bar for a beautiful night of love making
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Edward, busting into Aliceβs room in a cold sweat after looking at Beau for an hour: AM I GAY?!?
Alice, whipping out a PowerPoint Presentation: I am so glad you asked.
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Look Rosalie Edward and Carlisle are just the perfect little angst circle to me. YES there should be emotional consequences to immortality. YES you should be bitter about it towards each other. YES you should resent each other for what each of you represent, for the life you lost and for the undeath that none of you asked for!
Sometimes I like to imagine that, as much as they don't get along, Rosalie and Edward are the closest of any of the "siblings". In that sibling kinda way. You hate each other, you grate on each other's nerves, but part of that resentment comes from the fact that you understand each other too well.
Even worse when one of you is a mind reader. Rosalie resents Edward for understanding exactly what she's going through, and for treading carefully where it actually matters, because that was meant to be private. Edward knows that resentment intimately, can't help but hear it like a constant hum in his mind, and resents her for it, even though she can't help her thoughts any more than he can help reading them.
But when it comes down to it, nobody else quite gets it. They have more fun when they're in someone else's company, they can forget their sorrows and self hatred for a bit, but when they just need to be quietly honest about their lives? That's when they need each other the most.
If I was an immortal vampire who didn't sleep and had a wall full of CDs and just a bunch of music. I'm not saying Debussy wouldn't be in the collection. But the chances of it being in the player when my brand new human girlfriend comes over would be so low. It would be some wild off-putting shit that I would proceed to be so pretentious about that my fresh human girlfriend decides that a mysterious vampire boyfriend simply isn't worth it
Bella didn't have the mystery figured out quite yet. Whether she would find her answers in myths, legends, and fairytales, or whether he was something not quite covered by that, she wasn't sure. But no matter her lack of evidence, her instincts screamed at her loud enough. She knew one thing for certain.
Edward Cullen was dead.
The sickly, lifeless pallor of his skin, and how cold it was to touch. The strange, changeable colour of his eyes. The fact that she never saw him eat, or drink. His overly sweet scent, verging on rotten.
And it wasn't just him, either. The whole family from what she could tell. She didn't know how it was possible, or what it all meant, but every single one of them was dead.
It should have made her uncomfortable. Getting increasingly entangled with Edward, inextricably drawn to him.
It could have made her scared. So many stories of the undead are filled with threat, and horror.
Mostly she felt pity. However long he'd been dead aside, he still had a teenager's face. What kind of life had he led? Does he remember who he was, then? Was there a childhood sweetheart left behind? A mother, a father? Or was the past just empty to him?
Perhaps someone smarter, or with a functional sense of self preservation, would keep away. She was too young to become so acquainted with death, certainly too young to acquaint herself by choice.
But it wasn't a choice now, was it? Not anymore. At some point, she had stepped unknowingly into the world of the dead. And on some level, Bella knew there was no escape
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Anonymous asked:
Iβm really grateful that rob played edward as so very miserable that they had to explicitly tell him to smile more lol. I wonder if it had been a different actor if we wouldnβt have gotten sad emo Edward
Rob had a vision. And it was correct, Edward is a brooding loser who hates himself. Not many heartthrob actors would go with that angle, and I'm glad Rob did.
I think the script failed him most... they just didn't give him the opportunity to be sweet, lovesick dork. He lands the few jokes they give him. Plus, he admitted that he struggled to shout in his American accent, so we don't get those dramatic Edward outbursts.
idk.
Maybe I'll just blame the script instead of rob patt?
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Bella Swan didn't escape from Alice and Jasper via airport bathroom, force herself to hallucinate her ex-boyfriend, punch Jacob in the face, and demand vampire sex for everyone to refer to her as a doormat.
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bella: where are your fangs?
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was met with this at the end of midnight sun. mine too stephie
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Bella distancing herself from the Cullens after New Moon because they up and left her (She had an easier time forgiving Edward because he actually had a REASON) and they desperately try to win her back (esp Alice, Esme and Carlisle) but don't know how because they're emotionally constipated vampires is an idea i'm normal about
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Anonymous asked:
It's been a long time since I last stepped foot in high school, but don't you ever wish we would've seen them just being high school sweethearts sometimes? Him carrying her backpack, helping her with homework, just simple shit man :/
yes. tho if i'm being real, i think all the cutesy "high school sweethearts" content would be equally cute in a college setting. he can still carry her backpack, help her with homework, sit with her and her friends at lunch, study in the library, etc. but instead of a solid 8-hour day of back-to-back classes with little freedom, in college they have a more disjointed schedule with several hours of free time between classes.
it allows Bella more freedom to develop her personhood both in and outside a relationship, allowing the reader to see who she really is. (note: i am NOT implying Bella has zero personality.) maybe she still proves herself a caretaker by cooking for some people in her dorm, but now she's also doing it bc it's a hobby that reminds her of home. maybe she's an old soul not bc she reads Wuthering Heights for the four hundredth time, but because she's spending her nights in the archives reading disintegrating manuscripts for fun. maybe she scores an on-campus job at the library's circulation desk. maybe, instead of using her free time to clean Charlie's house or cook Charlie's meals or do his laundry etc etc etc, the sudden lack of responsibility forces her to consider what she wants to be doing. what does she gravitate toward when she isn't burdened with caretaking and is surrounded by more opportunities?
the tl;dr of it is yes. i love the "Edward/Bella school sweethearts" angle bc it is indeed cute as fuck. and i do wish we'd gotten more content like that. but i think the content we really desire - i.e. Edward/Bella acting like a couple and having cute interactions in a school setting, and seeing who they are as people both in and outside their relationship - would be better suited for an environment like college.
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Remembering that Jasper was originally named 'Ronald' and Rosalie was originally named 'Carol' is so trippy. Because it's like, here's this killing machine who can manipulate your emotions. Let's name him Ron. Here's the most beautiful creature in the world, Carol.
And again: I kind of love that! I kind of love that Edward is named Edward and Alice is named Alice and Jane is named Jane. Genuinely! I love that these supernatural characters with superpowers have the most boring old fashioned European names. It makes sense. Not every vampire is going to be named Calpurnia Ravensblood or Dragomir von Silverfang. Sometimes they're named Carol Hale.
But, again, this is why I personally find 'Renesmee' so distracting. Doesn't seem to belong in a world where there was even a possibility of Rosalie and Jasper being 'Carol and Ronald.'
CAROL AND RON FOREVER
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Okay, so we know that vampires in Twilight don't get sick. But what about mental disorders, like autism, ADHD, OCD, etc.? Do they keep those from their human lives? Can they develop them in vampire 'lives'? Or is it like with physical sicknesses, vampires are immune to them? What do you think?
I think that anything related to neurodiversity probably carries over. Becoming a vampire in the Twilight universe heightens everything, it makes you more 'you.' In some cases certain kinds of neurodiversity might even help? Say if in your human life you were really sensitive to light/noise/touch, but you developed coping mechanisms for that. Well, when someone becomes a vampire, all their senses are heightened. If you're already used to dealing with that kind of thing, it might make your newborn period easier vs someone more neurotypical who is dealing with these kind of overwhelming sensations for the first time.
In some cases, I could see certain traits even being enhanced to the point of superpower. If you're very good at masking, maybe you develop some sort of illusionary shape-shifting power -- that is, make people see you differently. You don't actually change how you look, just how you look to other people (so it probably wouldn't work on Bella's mind shield). So you could maybe go out in the daylight because you can make people 'see' you as not sparkling and with normal colored eyes or whatever. If you were really attentive to details that other people miss, maybe you get a kind of ESP where you just 'know' things because you're picking up on subtle signals to an even more enhanced degree.
I think conditions caused by chemical imbalances (vs things caused by personality/life experience) might be 'fixed' in the transformation though, since the vampire body works differently.
And I think we see from the books that vampires can develop some kinds of mental illness; we've got Marcus who is eternally depressed after the death of his mate. Jasper was depressed for awhile in his backstory. Edward clearly suffered from depression during New Moon and arguably anxiety throughout the whole series. Other characters are still dealing with trauma in various ways. But the lore is that it takes more to change a vampire -- something big like the death of a mate -- and so it would also take more to 'cure' them of whatever the problem was and that human medications would not work.
#yes yes 100% because Edward Cullen has OCD he just does#obviously it's complicated by the nature of his thirst#BUT (ignoring midnight sun bc I haven't read it) Edward is anxious about the idea of injuring Bella to the point of obsession#I 100% believe he struggles with constant intrusive thoughts about hurting her or not protecting her well enough#OCD is so good at making you feel like you're evil