#WE SEE IT

[somewillwin]

The way caitlyn turned her fear of jinx into anger so she could keep moving…..

[lariej]

okay but if buddie isn’t endgame WHY did tommy say ‘my attention’ like he did. that man SENSED whatever shit is going on between those two i’m sure of it

[jrueships]

i know he was embarrassed

[panlight]

From what I see, in Breaking Dawn, imprinting was SMeyer’s way of tying everything up in a neat little bow. Ended the possibility of a love triangle, kept Jacob in the story, and Renesmee will grow up and have a man just waiting to marry her (ick but moving on). Everyone gets a happy little love story and everyone is technically immortal so they get a happy forever after.

But now that I know imprinting was in Forever Dawn, I’m wondering why it was there in the first place. I can see her keeping it to the everything up well, but I’m wondering what the original thought process was, as Jacob was just a character who had one role and that was to push the plot. So why include him?

My take is that she was already in the planning phase of New Moon, so Jacob may have been on her mind. She knew it would always be Edward, but maybe she wanted that guarantee that no one could claim that Jacob would imprint on Bella. Interested to hear your take on why it happened in Forever Dawn.

That's the issue, right? What's the point of the imprint in Forever Dawn?

It's not to tie up a love-triangle; there isn't one. Jacob is just a family friend with a minor crush. With no New Moon, he and Bella never grew close.

It's not to keep the Cullens in Forks; Jacob only sees Renesmee and imprints on her at Charlie's house when Bella is visiting. So Charlie is still in Bella's life without Jacob being involved at all, unlike in Breaking Dawn.

It's not keep to the wolves from killing the vampires; as mentioned above, in Forever Dawn, Jacob only imprints weeks after Nessie is born. And the person who claims to have read Forever Dawn at the Library of Congress says the wolves knew about the pregnancy but didn't really care.

So then, what was the point?!

I guess we have to look at SM's stated inspiration for imprinting:

Imprinting was inspired by two different sources: ducklings and dragons. Imprinting actually exists in nature, but usually between parents and their offspring. I saw a nature documentary about ducklings imprinting on their moms and it always stuck with me. The other inspiration is Anne McCaffrey’s dragon books (which, if you haven’t read them, do so now! Start with Dragonflight). In her mythology, humans and dragons bond so tightly that if one of them dies, the other either suicides or goes mad. They love each other with an absolute and unreasoning love that never falters or changes. I was always captivated by this concept, and I wanted to explore that kind of life-changing and compulsory relationship.

And then this, where she mentions she always knew Jacob's "eventually happy ending."

I wrote New Moon and Eclipse after I wrote Forever Dawn, which is pretty much the rough draft of Breaking Dawn. So I always knew Bella’s destiny was with Edward, and as her relationship with Jacob evolved and deepened through the course of the middle novels, writing about it was sometimes painful. Even knowing Jacob’s eventual happy ending, it was hard to put him through all the heartbreak.

So, I mean, I don't know??? It kind of feels to me that she just liked Jacob and wanted to keep him in the story somehow, but Bella and all the Cullens were already paired off so oh hey how about the baby? Allegedly in Forever Dawn it is spelled out that imprinting is how the shapeshifters find their mates. :/

[alphabravohotel]

She said please!

[beggars-opera]

[noodles-and-tea]

Haha… yeah… that’d be crazy…

[elbiotipo]

I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[cartoonsinthemorning]

Since you guys liked Marcille as Kermit that much, it seems fitting to thank you for my 12k milestone with MORE Kercille. And this time, Miss Falin is also here.

Thank you so much again everybody! MWAH 💗

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

[letmebegaytodd]

tragedy enjoyers when even good intentions lead to ruin

[lakecountylibrary]

LIBRARY WRAPPED

You checked out... probably some stuff? Thanks for doing that :)

Used our wifi maybe? For something?

Look we actually don't know what genres you read or how many times you renewed Gender Queer.

We don't want to know.

Our gift to you is privacy.

Take it.

Be free.

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[visenyaism]

“girl dinner” “girl math” “i’m just a girl” okay but I am an adult I am six feet tall I am loud as fuck I take up space I am smart and capable. So are you. Why would we want to laugh at jokes where the punchline is that women aren’t? Why would we want to make jokes about being small and childish and incapable? Who do you think laughs at those jokes the loudest?