#hi I'm Bella!

[helenofblackthorns]

it haunts me so much that while everyone knew Livvy wanted to be Parabatai with Ty, nobody but Kit is aware that Ty said yes

[daddy-joel-miller]

Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller

[littlespidermonkey]

I think in the universe where the Cullens aren't in Forks, Bella Swan takes a while to come out of her shell, but when she does, she's witty and passionate and smart as a whip, even if she's still quiet and reserved. She sits with Jessica Stanley, who demands the best of everyone, and tells her friends about her boyfriend down on the rez, who is sweet and caring and funny and good with his hands, who works for everything he's ever had.

After class, during a sleepover, Bella whispers to tell Angie and Jess about the night after prom, even though her father, loving and careless, worries about her only a normal amount and loves Jacob Black like his own. When she gets into Dartmouth--all by herself, through study sessions in garages and with Jessica and in Angela's house--she chooses to go to Stanford instead. She misses the heat and light on her skin, even after falling in love with the rain. Jessica comes with her; Angela and Eric go to U of Washington in Seattle instead, for education and journalism respectively.

Bella makes sure to call every week and then one day she drives down to Seattle and her boyfriend, warm like the sun she loves and at least twice as reliable, becomes her fiancé. The ring isn't especially big or ornate or pricey, but the way she smiles could trick anyone into thinking that it was. All of her friends, new and old, are waiting at the small party afterwards, and Bella laughs the entire time. The engagement cake--chocolate, her favourite--is sweet and moist against her tongue.

She moves back to Forks once she gets her masters in information sciences and becomes the town's librarian. She gets married a month before the move, barefoot in the surf and her old prom dress, both her parents weeping with joy and Billy Black beaming damn near as bright as his son, Sue Clearwater holding his hand.

She raises her kids --both beautiful children, blessed with Jake's thick, long hair--with Angela and Eric's and takes them down to Los Angeles to visit their auntie Jess and her husband Quil, who lavishes them with gifts from her career as a top surgeon. She jokes about having to support Quil's career as an environmental lawyer and displays each and every one of his wins alongside her diplomas. When William Black II decides he wants to be a doctor too, she writes him a shining letter of recommendation to her alma mater. Sarah, who has always been the spitting image of her father, joins and eventually takes over Jacob's mechanic shop.

On occasion, Bella fights with Jacob, even though he's the love of her life. Despite this, she is never afraid of him, and he never stops her from doing what she wants. Instead, he goes out and works on his cars and comes back in an hour later with slightly greasy hands and a bouquet of flowers from Emily Young's little garden, planted to celebrate her cousin Leah Uley's wedding. Bella makes him muffins, recipe courtesy of Sue and missing bites courtesy of Seth, Colin, Sarah, Will, and Claire, with raspberries, not blueberries, just how Jake likes them. They make up, and they make changes, and they go on.

Eventually, both slower and quicker than she realizes, Bella gets old. She lives in fear of losing herself, of losing her husband and her children, like her grandmother had. But she remembers her grandkids to the very end, even gets to meet her first great-grandchild a week before it happens. Her heart gives out before her brain does, too weak and too slow.

It was too full of love, the letter from Jacob says. Sarah reads it. Her father passed a day after his wife--simply too heartbroken to live without her. Much of the town of Forks and hordes of family attend their funeral, remembering a life well lived.

It is an unremarkable life, in the grand scheme of things. She does not live to be a thousand; she is no great beast, with speed like the wind and strength; she does not discover her powers or lead a great defiance. Bella Black, happy and human and surrounded by love, could never imagine wanting anything else.

[faytelumos]

I think, at the birthday party, part of Jasper knew what he was doing, and he fought against it.

The primary emotion in that room was horror. If Jasper wanted to eat Bella with everything he had, he would have blown up with thirst, or he would have flushed the room with submission. If Jasper truly and deeply wanted with every fiber of his being to kill Bella, he could have overpowered everyone just long enough to get his teeth into her, at least. He could have turned the whole room to look at her with the same thirst, he could have made everyone haze out or go profoundly apathetic, he could have done so many things to the emotions in the room to get to his goal unhindered.

But I think he was horrified at what he was doing. I think he was internally wailing for someone to stop him. Everyone else was shocked still, but Edward (either because he heard Jasper begging for help or just because Bella is his mate) was more than able to jump into action. Because Edward's accustomed to being horrified in Bella's presence, as much as it sucks to say that, and his instinct to that has long been to take stock of every single threat pointed at her in the room and do something about it (especially when that threat is a vampire).

Jasper was disgusted with himself as soon as he got the air to clear his head. Esme was in tears as she left the room, ashamed that she couldn't stand the smell of Bella's blood. When the second round of that little fight had reared its head, everyone emptied out very quickly because they were already feeling flighty and sick and upset.

I think Jasper had more control in that situation than he got credit for. But it just wasn't enough to stop the frenzy.

[flores-desyatov]

Bella and Vanya looking gorgeous with Vanya's brother and friends • from V's instagram

[visualtaehyun]

🦊 or 🍓?

I'm still howling with laughter about Tho's answer here cause it was so surprisingly fitting and witty!!

เม็ด / เม็ดเยอะ /met; met yuh/

lit. "(has) many seeds", like fruit with a lot of seeds in it -> calling someone a dragon fruit แก้วมังกร /gaaeo mang-gaawn/ has also become a thing lol

I've seen some sources say it might've come from หมกเม็ด /mohk met/ = lit. "bury seeds/kernels"; conceal, hush up, hide, keep secret

it's a slang expression that can be used in slightly different ways:

about someone who's tricky, cunning, wicked

when someone likes to share tidbits or tell stories in an annoyingly secretive, elusive way or holds back on telling the full story, kind of like dropping hints, kind of like 🤭

about someone who's high maintenance, demanding, picky, hard-to-please

when someone acts like they know everything or know better

Disclaimer: not a native Thai speaker, just a passionate learner 🙏

[jingledbells]

the final scene in good omens season 2 is so fiddauthor coded. aziraphale wanting to chase after this oppurtunity but crowleys skeptical. he knows that its not going to work out for him and he knows that its stupid and he tries to tell him its not worth it but aziraphale doesn't understand. and he just wants to be by his side. and he's so in love with him and he tries to tell him but it doesn't end well and it ends with them parting. does this sound familiar.

[solisnocte]

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[messrsrarchives]

i want to write a twdg au so fucking bad. so fucking bad just for clem and lee as remus and teddy. but then like,,, yk there's so many ROUTES you can take these things! i'd have to decide what route to take. and then it would just be s1 because what after that? who's aj? yk??? like it would just be s1 but it would just be my playthrough and then it would be like "here is this fic specifically crafted for me and only me"

but it would be fun to do like. alt endings? because we know how s1 ends and i could AHAHAH give that false sense of security with two endings and people (me, again this is made for me and me only) are like "wow i am sad i'll read this othe- AGAIN!?" and that'd be funny.

[wildfairies]

finished @night-market-if and updated my mc myrtle with some night market fashion 💞

this almost never happens to me but i cannot for the life of me decide who to romance in this game!!!!!! the options are too good.

[helenofblackthorns]

reading tftsa is always an emotional experience especially when you get the short stories focused around the Blackthorns because the absence of Mark just bleeds out. like when you read about Julian being Helen's suggenes and Simon being the witness to Julian's parabatai ceremony you are just burdened with the knowledge that that's not who they would have picked if the circumstances were different. in a different life it was Mark.

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

i very honestly and wholeheartedly love the fanon interpretation of emmett and bella as 'the chaos twins' and i will always need more of them™

[jessicanjpa]

I forget which episode, but @threebooksoneplot once said it would be so amazing if we could take the best Life and Death lines but give them to the regular Twilight characters.

...I wonder if anyone has done it, or is thinking about doing it? Take the very best lines from Life and Death and sneak them into the original text in a new doc? Just think how very cool it would be to be reading Twilight and come across these gems:

(Carlisle's backstory)

"The vampire told his father that he was a fool and he would pay for the damage he had caused. The preacher threw himself in front of his son to protect him...

"I often wonder about that moment. If he hadn't revealed what he loved most, would all our stories have changed?"

Edward was thoughtful for a few seconds. And then he continued. "The vampire smiled. He told the preacher, 'Go to your hell knowing this—that what you love will become all that you hate.'

"He made sure that the preacher knew what would happen to Carlisle, and then he killed the preacher very slowly while Carlisle watched, writhing in pain and horror."

(in Edward's room for the first time)

"Um... Edward?"

I didn't see his attack—it was much too fast. I couldn't even understand what was happening. For half a second I was airborne and the room rolled around me, upside down and then right side up again. I didn't feel the landing, but suddenly I was on my back on the black couch and Edward was on top of me, his knees tight against my hips, his hands planted on either side of my head so that I couldn't move, and his bared teeth just inches from my face. He made another soft sound that was halfway between a growl and a purr.

"Wow," I breathed.

"You were saying?" he asked.

"Um, that you are a very, very terrifying monster?"

He grinned. "Much better."

"And that I am so completely in love with you."

His face went soft, his eyes wide, all the walls down again.

"Bella," he whispered.

(hotel in Phoenix, Alice talking)

"Jasper was the first thing I saw. I didn't meet him in person until much later."

Something about her tone made me wonder. "How long?"

"Twenty-eight years."

"Twenty-eight...? You had to wait Twenty-eight years? But couldn't you...?"

She nodded. "I could have found him earlier. I knew where he was. But he wasn't ready for me yet. If I'd come too early, he would have killed me."

I gasped and stared at Jasper. He raised an eyebrow at me, and I looked back at Alice. She laughed.

(ballet studio)

"Wait, wait," Edward said, his head snapping up. "She deserves a choice."

His lips were at my ear. I clamped my teeth against the moaning, straining to listen.

"Bella? I won't make this decision for you. I won't take this away from you. And I'll understand, I promise, Bella. If you don't want to live like this, I won't fight you. I'll respect what you want. I know it's a horrible choice. I would give you any other option if I could. I would die if I could give your life back to you." His voice broke. "But I can't make that trade. I can't do anything—except stop the pain. If that's what you want. You don't have to be this. I can let you go—if that's what you need." It sounded like he was sobbing again. "Tell me what you want, Bella. Anything."

"You," I spit through my teeth. "Just you."

"Are you sure?" he whispered.

I groaned. The fire was reaching its fingers into my chest. "Yes," I coughed out. "Just—let me stay—with you."

[faytelumos]

Y'all.

The climax and resolution of Twilight is SO! MUCH! B E T T E R ! IN THE BOOK!

For one, Bella's smart as hell. Damn. I was thinking the whole time I was reading the book, "Does Bella actually lack a personality in the book, or am I just struggling to see it because this is 1st person?" and then she made the plans for how to evade James and protect Charlie and I just

I agree with Emmett. "She's diabolical."

And then! THE THING?! WITH ALICE?!?!

*SCREAMING* HOW DID I FORGET THAT?!

James in the movie was annoying as hell, but the James in the book is… like, he's not scary precisely. He's slick, that's what it is. He's tricky. I HATED the scene in the dance hall in the movie, but it was actually really good in the book.

And I kind of hate the way they altered Edward drinking from her in the movie. You kidding me? You're gonna take that victory away from him? That was SUCH a big deal! She's his bloodsong and he was able to maintain himself even after everything! And they TOOK that from us!

WOOF!

Still not finished. But yeah. The book was WAY better than the movie.

[this-love-is-delicate]

Just finished Breaking Dawn Part 2 Twilight Is literally peak fiction

[thedawningofthehour]

Finally back to working on the fic again and I just want you all to know that the entire time period the next two chapters encompass, Bella is face-down on her mattress hungover af and completely passed out the entire time.