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[twistedkey]

Hiii

I'm sorry to bother but i have to ask is the breaking dawn au with beau x edward still going to happen right? I miss them so much

Hi anon! Yes it's still going to happen. I have 20 chapters outlined and 4 completed so far. We've been doing some work at my house so that has left little time for me to write. Just know that I have a clear conclusion in mind and I am working on it.

[denalilily]

fired

Aro tries to fire Demetri because he sucks at his job big time. An excerpt from chapter 12 (unpublished, wip) of Hasta la Vista, Baby.

“You’re fired.” Aro made his announcement abruptly, dropping any hint of pretense he usually kept up. “I regret it,” he said coldly.

“You can’t fire me, master,” Demetri sneered, unable to resist saying the cliché. “I quit."

“You did?” Aro raised an eyebrow. “When?”

“Oh, about thirty minutes ago, actually,” Demetri boasted, playing this out for all it’s worth. “I flung my crest into the river, in case you hadn’t noticed I am not wearing it.”

Aro raised his head, and the small threatening movement made his insane boost of courageous resistance float away. He wasn’t going to give in, but Demetri remembered he might not stand a chance against the powerful old vampire, who was likely stronger and more skilled than he had ever shown any of them.

“What made you let her go?”

“What made me let Alice go after you assigned me to watch over her?” Demetri repeated, gathering his courage and making sure to rub it in.

“Yes, precisely.”

He took a deep breath, about to hit him with the speech he’d prepared in his head while hidden behind the statue.

“After Chelsea died – and I attempted to save her, by the way, consider it the last act I ever did as your servant – the spell was broken and I realized I had no more free will than Alice did. She hadn’t been bound to our organization, but you were planning it, weren’t you? I realized she had saved me by stopping me from interfering with Chelsea’s death, releasing me from the binds. It was a huge favor, and I paid it back by letting her escape while she could.”

“Ah,” Aro said sagely, nodding his head. “You could have saved Chelsea, and all of this could have been prevented.”

“I despised her,” Demetri said quickly.

“I see,” Aro said, as if he could complely understand.

“But I did try to save her, because I thought we were allies. I thought this was a coven, and I thought our power meant something,” Demetri continued. “Turns out it doesn't.”

[seresinly]

the Dare You to Move series AO3    |    FanFiction.net    by hyacinthed​ and seresin​ (aka @theclearwaters​)

Relationship: Leah Clearwater/Jacob Black Works: 10 Word Count: 275,000+ Status: Complete!!

→ Part One: Between Who You Are and Who You Could Be https://archiveofourown.org/works/25005178 Summary: Seth is the only Clearwater to phase - but his sister becomes a part of the pack anyway. Relationship(s): Leah Clearwater/Jacob Black, Leah Clearwater & Embry Call Word Count: 245,000+ Status: Complete

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→ Part Two: Make the Dog Testify https://archiveofourown.org/works/37790206 Summary: Bella makes a bad decision. Somehow, it is Quil who is left to clean up the mess. Relationship: Quil Ateara V & Bella Swan Word Count: 1,413 Status: Complete

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→ Part Three: Build a Home for Your Family, Build a Castle for Your Friends https://archiveofourown.org/works/38045125 Summary: As Jacob's unofficial second, and as Leah's number one BFF, my allegiance to the Reservation's number-one ass kicking couple could never be questioned. Relationship: Embry Call & Leah Clearwater Word Count: 2,693 Status: Complete

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→ Part Four: Raised by Wolves and Other Beasts https://archiveofourown.org/works/38458513 Summary: Standing on the Clearwaters’ doorstep, Jacob raises his hand to the doorbell and hopes his evening will begin like this:

Leah, who'll sport a deeply convincing scowl, will wrench open the door, and though she'll be really very pissed, a tiny hint of a smile will peek through. He'll make some idiotic comment instead of a proper greeting, and it'll be enough to coax a real smile out of her, and just like that, the Bella Situation will be forgotten.

Instead, it begins like this. Relationship(s): Leah Clearwater/Jacob Black, Others Word Count: 2,315 Status: Complete

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→ Part Five: Leah and Kim’s Great Adventure https://archiveofourown.org/works/38543041 Summary: “So,” Kim says, fiddling with the dials of the radio. “Where are we going?”

“Port Angeles. I have an appointment.”

“That sounds kind of ominous,” Kim says, settling on the crappy college station that insists on pioneering the insufferable concept of Metal Mondays. “Ooh, is it a hair appointment? Are we getting matching haircuts?”

“Not quite,” Leah says, merging onto the highway. “We’re going to Planned Parenthood.” Relationship(s): Leah Clearwater & Kim Conweller, Leah Clearwater/Jacob Black Word Count: 1,097 Status: Complete

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→ Part Six: Meddling Kids and Their Dog https://archiveofourown.org/works/38578416 Summary: The Twilight-Maury crossover episode. Relationship: Leah Clearwater/Jacob Black, Others Word Count: 3,328 Status: Complete

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→ Part Seven: the soft rhythm of you https://archiveofourown.org/works/39547293 Rating: Explicit Summary: Leah stills, pulling back just enough to get a good look at him. “Do you want to stop?” His answer is immediate, spilling from his lips before she can reconsider. “No. I’ve just . . . never done any of this before.” She strokes his cheekbone with her thumb, soothing his racing heart with little more than a smile of the eye-crinkling variety, a smile that she only ever does for him. “How about I show you?” Relationship: Leah Clearwater/Jacob Black Word Count: 2,077 Status: Complete

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→ Part Eight: I Share Your Darkest Thoughts With You (but share no consequences for them) https://archiveofourown.org/works/40275090 Summary: As the Alpha, Sam spends his days painfully aware of the list of Things He Has to Do. Things that, if they knew, Old Quil and Billy (and Sue) would whoop his ass for not having done already. Potentially life-altering, crucial things, absolutely none of which involve hiking halfway up the Olympic Mountains with Bella fucking Swan as part of the stupidest game of hide-and-seek he has ever heard of. Relationship: Sam Uley & Bella Swan Word Count: 5,043 Status: Complete

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→ Part Nine: Between How It Is and How It Should Be https://archiveofourown.org/works/40875951 Summary: In hindsight, she probably should have listened when Jacob insisted that hiking halfway up the mountain and spending half the night with seven bloodsuckers was not a good idea. Relationship: Jacob Black/Leah Clearwater Word Count: 2,492 Status: Complete

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→ Part Ten: The Deleted Scenes https://archiveofourown.org/works/42887007 Word Count: 6,955 Status: Complete

[charincharge]

on a scale from one to this la tua cantante tshirt I won for best band fic in 2009, how excited are you for this twilight renaissance?

[theseismicshifts]

God damn it, Peter...

[hurricanenotjane]

Got all the chapters for The Wild downloaded from FF and slapped into individual docs. Soon, the real work begins: editing and rewriting 82K words.

12.7.2024 - Does it? lol At the risk of giving into Libra moon, ya girl may reverse course. It's not a 10/10 but it's plucky and maybe that's enough.

[alphacrone]

i love when fic inexplicably makes non-sibling characters siblings. it almost certainly wasn't necessary. it's -chef's kiss- every time.

[edwardskhakipants]

Is it selfish to hope that the TV show will mean more people will read my fanfic?

[mermaidsirennikita]

Sorry but i need to hear more about Adam Driver Face and Adam Driver Body in romance novels and possibly how this pertains to Forget Me Not by Julie Soto.

Lol this is a hot take so I'm gonna publish it

I know that for some reason being attracted to Adam Driver is Controversial, and indeed a lot of Reylo fic authors flipping into romance is Controversial... It shouldn't be. Aside from Big Deal Ship Writers flipping into romance writers being a tale as old as time, ESPECIALLY post-Twilight (lots of authors who've been successful for quite a while now are former Twific authors--EL James is just, unfortunately, the biggest name), the concept of an Adam Driver-shaped man as a romance hero is so... obviously something that fits.

Because I'm gonna tell you right fucking now, lol--while Henry Cavill is the dude everyone and their mom fancasts for every. white. romance hero. ever (and plenty of romance heroes who aren't white but everyone just ignores that) I would argue that a lot of authors had Adam Driver-shaped guys in mind. Not Adam Driver, necessarily. I imagine a lot of writers do not have actors in mind at all when the y write (I don't). But someone who is closer to Adam Driver than Henry Cavill.

Why? Because romance heroes, at the end of the day, are often not men who jive with the concept of typical actors, ESPECIALLY not today (because white actors today have become incredibly homogenous in terms of looks, and additionally currently trend more towards a very youthful, softer look, which is fine but is not what romance heroes have been in the past and honestly... even post-cinnamon roll, largely are in the present). A lot of romance heroes in books that aren't like, pumped out with zero thought (because there are those) are not described as like, the most beautiful guy in the room. There's a reason why we love the scarred hero, right? Romance heroes owe their roots more to men like Mr. Rochester--guys who are often NOT conventionally hot, but ARE incredibly compelling.

Like, of course you have your Sebastian St. Vincents, the guys who are incandescently hot (Sebastian St. Vincent has Jude Law Face and Jude Law Body, LOOK AT WHEN THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN AND KNOW IT IN YOUR HEART). But many more heroes, especially in again, well-written romances, are more like Derek Craven, who's described as having a fuckton of presence, a fuckton of sexuality, but as often being "almost handsome", with snaggle teeth and a general "coarseness".

Which makes sense, right? Because, to this day, and I'm not saying this is a good thing, m/f romance heroes are meant to contrast to their heroines. And their heroines are often, if not hyperfeminine, then still the feminine presence in the room. Even in books like Knockout where the heroine is not this small delicate flower--in some ways, it's often even more important for the hero to contrast to her. Because a heroine like Imogen wants a man who supports and accepts her, but also makes her feel like she is something to be cherished and protected. Tommy being someone who can pick her up and gather her in his arms appeals to her. And I think that is something that every woman, regardless of her size or her preference in men's appearances, can relate to.

Also, a lot of romance authors are trickling down from older generations of romance authors. While those authors did not have an Adam Driver lol, they did have this preference towards the massive guy who Isn't Handsome But He's Got Somethin'. And so, the romance authors who grew up on that still want that. I know that the fetishized Big Hero has been a hot topic as of late... If I'm being real, I don't think he's going anywhere. There will be more space for heroes who are not like that, but it's a personal preference thing, and a lot of authors (and readers) do like to read about that. I don't know that that's a bad.... thing.

So when you look at actors today who fit that--this big guy with a big body that nonetheless doesn't seem immediately like a gym body (though it is, lol, I think he's just perhaps better at building muscle from... working out... versus steroids.... because the roles he takes do not require roid-level muscle, for one thing) and a face that seems like it could take a beating and he wouldn't go "not my face"--there are very few aside from Adam Driver. Like, in reality, Geralt should have a nose that's broken 58 different ways, but aside from magic, he's Henry Cavill and Henry Cavill isn't gonna get his face legit fucked up. Because Adam Driver is not "pretty" in any way, I think he reads as a different type of masculine to those that appreciate his appearance, and that kind of masculine translates to romance heroes very easily. And Adam Driver Body just is Big Man Romance Hero Body, because, sorry, he's got a very good body and even if you don't like his face I think that's just. A fact lol. If you don't like tall broad fit guys that's fine, but he's clearly a very fit, physical person and he's a very physical actor which makes this more noticeable.

But I would say that ALL OF THIS comes across in a larger way because very fewer actors right now look like him. Not just in his unconventional (I mean is it tho... or are we just so used to homogeny in actors that it seemed unconventional today... I'm gonna tell y'all right now, everyone and their mom was into Alan Rickman when I was growing up, and I GET IT... it's the same motherfucking look lol) face, but in his general appearance. He seems BIGGER because he's actually an actor who's broad and 6'3"; a lot of taller actors are slimmer, on that very obvious 'roid muscle which doesn't translate in the same sense, or are NOT. ACTUALLY. THAT TALL LOL. and lie about their height. So he seems bigger in contrast.

But then there's the Adam Driver Vibe, which, especially post-Reylo, is something I think appeals to romance writers even more and that is what you see in Forget Me Not (a book written by a Reylo fic writer, which I enjoyed quite a bit). The hero in that book is such a good example of an Adam Driver-coded hero. And let's be clear, I have no idea what the man is like in his real life. He barely talks to the press, and by God I hope he keeps it that way. But because he doesn't talk to the press, people assume quiet; because when he does, he seems to be a pretty nice guy and seems to get along with his costars just fine, people assume nice; they assume things based on him being with the same woman since college, etc. Romance people package this into a hero type that has been around for a long time, but they can now plaster onto the Adam Driver Vibe. The guy who is kinda quiet and gruff but actually sweet, who will fix your car without a word while thinking that you're kind of a FUCKING IDIOT for not getting your car fixed earlier, but it's only because he actually loves you and just doesn't want you to get hurt, and he's not an asshole about it, he just tenses so that you can see the corded muscles in his forearms and speaks in a tight voice about how you REALLY need to TAKE THIS INTO THE SHOP more OFTEN.

But why would you, because he's competent and does man stuff more? (Even though Adam Driver, as far as I know, lives in a very nice home in Brooklyn and loves traveling to Italy which is why he does as many movies in Italy as possible, people think of him as very 'salt of the Earth homegrown' because Midwest and because we don't see him acting like a Typical Actor in interviews, and this sticks onto his romance descendants as well). It's the sense of competence that people want, and you see that a lot in Forget Me Not. Quiet, so we can assume from the quietness that he's yearning and longing (which he is). Competent, annoyed but only because he cares too much.

And, of course, he can throw the heroine around in bed, which is something I think people project onto Adam Driver because a lot of the bigness is really connected to this concept in the first place... But also because he has done a good amount of sex scenes, unlike a LOT of actors of his caliber in this day and age, and for that matter a lot of PRETTIER actors around his gen, because actors like Chris Evans and Hemsworth got locked into Marvel contracts early and don't do sex. Adam Driver was fuckin' in House of Gucci and that was pretty recent lol. I think that the fact that you do see him in this context makes a difference. Also, while not every sex scene... not many sex scenes... in Girls were hot, he did do a lot of that shit, and though I hate Lena Dunham with all my soul, I would theorize that the fact that you not only saw him be sexual (in a simulated way) with a woman who was not thin by any means onscreen, picking her up and shit, made an impression. As did that scene where he bench-pressed Shiri Appleby, would recommend... tracking that down... if you have not...

Like, there are a lot of Adam Driver-coded heroes out there, and not all of them are Reylo heroes. I do not see Sworn to the Shadow God by Ruby Dixon a Reylo book (for one thing, the heroine is Latina). But the hero??? So Adam Driver-coded. He's big, his face is like, Kinda Weirdly Too Much But Also Hot, he's kinda quiet and awkward but by God he means well and he will make the heroine come 75 times if he's got anything to say about it. There are heroes who were written Before the Days of Adam Driver who still read more as that motherfucker than any other actor today (THE HERO FROM THE RAVEN PRINCE IS NOT HENRY CAVILL WITH SCARS SHUT UP).

It's not just a look, it is a vibe, and it is entirely this thing that everyone has made up and projected onto that man lol. Which is a lot easier to do with him than ANY other actor, because Adam Driver. Does not talk. Which--so many actors should just not talk. (But, and this is a petty thing so I'll say it--a lot of his peers do need to sell themselves based off personality and he generally doesn't because he's a legit good actor sorry sorry sorry.) However, him not talking kind of makes him the perfect romance hero projection figure. The less we know about him, the more we can Imagine. I know Henry Cavill has a thing for girls who are way too young for him, right? I don't know fuck all about Adam Driver's romantic life aside from him being married to Joanne a long time.

In conclusion, it's a whole deal not even just the body and the face, and it's not surprising to me that it's something that a lot of romance writers and readers have latched on to.

[crazydrawsblog]

Oh god tumblr dashboard unfucker is no longer working I really will have to deal with the twification of the tumblr layout.

[twistedkey]

Nightfall by twistedkey

With vampires on a killing spree in Seattle, an old enemy back for revenge, and graduation right around the corner, Beau Swan’s life has never been more complicated. AU. The third installment in The Blue Hour series.

Chapter 16 on (FFN) | (AO3)

[denalilily]

Hasta la Vista, Baby

Chapter 6: Not Quite Wonderland

Step into Alice's eyes in the newest chapter of my fic to see how she's doing in her new life as a Volturi captive.

Fic summary:

Everyone knew the Volturi would be back one day. But who could have suspected that it would be so soon? With the government slowly becoming corrupt, what will become of the vampire world? One thing is clear - they need to act fast. Could it finally come down to a revolution after so many centuries of the Volturi rule?

🖤 Read on AO3 🖤

[gisellelx]

yeah you gotta go back and read all of @fuckmeyer's tags here because they are a masterpiece.

When I started writing Ithaca one of the bigger blogs at the time asked why I had conceived of Carlisle as a more complicated character than the saint most twifics wrote him as at the time.

This dude is the most fucked up character in the entire canon. He is so fun as a result. I don't understand how so few people see that, but more for me to write, I suppose! Does not show any sign of stopping.

one of the overlooked horror aspects of Twilight unrelated to Bella & Edward's romance is 200-year-old Carlisle Cullen changing 17-year-old Edward Masen, a boy so sick he couldn't even consent to becoming a vamp.

Edward says Carlisle was lonely and wanted a companion. but what kind of "companionship" can a man get from a child? Carlisle was desperate, sure, but he could have picked anyone dying during the influenza pandemic to be his companion. why Edward?

imo, Carlisle didn't want a companion in the sense that he wanted an equal partner. Carlisle wanted someone he could care for forever without having to worry about them dying. he wants to play the role of caretaker because—up until this point—it's the role he knows best and the only role he's comfortable with. because the influenza pandemic put this image of himself in jeopardy (as he has to watch countless die of a novel disease he cannot treat), Carlisle looked to someone who could reaffirm his role. Carlisle doesn't want a relationship between equals—he wants validation that he'll always be needed in this world. what better way to do that than to change a young boy who will never mentally progress beyond 17?

the argument here is, "oh, well Carlisle treated Edward's mom who made him promise to save her son." it begs the question why THIS plea is the one that gets to him. was this the first time a 200-year-old doctor got pleas from his patients to save them? i highly doubt no one on their deathbed ever thought to appeal to the Mysteriously Perfect Hot Doctor to save their life by any means necessary.

which leads me to believe Edward being turned is not just the result of a) Carlisle being lonely, b) a "noble" man making a promise, or c) the pandemic creating ripe conditions for someone to disappear, but also, e) an implicit desire to reaffirm his role as caretaker in a moment of self-doubt; plus bonus, d) a worse fifth thing

[gisellelx]

For the fanfic writer asks, want to do 29, 33, and 44?

Thanks @jessicanjpa!

29. What's your most popular fic?

Ithaca Is Gorges, by far. It totally makes my day any time I see someone rec it, and the fact that it's still kicking around at the top of a lot of people's rec lists is such a terrific compliment. I use reddit mainly for my hobby of investing and personal finance, so I only lurk on the Twific reddit but there's usually not a month that goes by where someone doesn't suggest somewhere that someone else read it. It's one reason I refuse to be shy about the value of fanfic writing. I work alongside people whose whole job it is to publish novels and teach fiction writing, and sure, nobody's written about my fanfic in Kirkus reviews, but for sure far more people have read and recommended my novels than have any of theirs. 😆 I'd rather have the latter.

33. Do you ever read your own fics once they've been posted?

Perpetually. In fact, I just managed to lose/break two Kindles in one month and am on my third since the beginning of October. I noticed when I added my Calibre library to the one before this one that my table of contents weren't working properly for several of my ebook versions so I actually took the time to regenerate them last week. Of course, then I sat down and read the entirety of Present Perfect—it's the gnarliest one to format so at first I was just ostensibly checking to make sure it was done correctly, but then I got sucked in because it's a pretty good story if I do say so myself.

It's helpful both because it spurs my own writing, but also keeps me aware of my own canon. Whenever possible, I try to write such that every story I write takes place in the same universe as every other one, and being reminded that oh right, this is the year I decided that Alice and Jasper showed up, and where, helps me make sure a reference I make to it six years later isn't different. Wouldn't mind if Stephenie Meyer paid as close attention.

44. How often do you write?

Trying to bring this back to a more regular practice. I add a few words to things almost every single day. But really getting into the groove of it isn't nearly as often as it once was. I keep trying to get back into a daily fiction writing practice and it's hard. Part of that is, I fear, the easy allure of other kinds of online distraction which did not exist as completely when I used to write fiction, both ofic and fanfic, more prolifically. But other of it is just that I do a lot of writing these days. People think professors are mostly teachers and nope, we're mostly writers. So when work is writing, having fun also be writing is sometimes a lot. On the other hand, I write a lot when I'm writing a lot. 😅 When the ole's sideblog is very active, it's a really good sign that I'm also throwing thousands of words down on the WIPs. So, trying to write more and read more and reddit less.

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I need a "Emmett hasn't enjoyed a single football game since Alice pranced into town" moodboard

Edit: check the notes for my moodboard bc I'm trash

[theseismicshifts]

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