Alyssa
Troubadour
Why is this reminding me of Twilight, which I never want to be reminded of???
that brings back awful memories...
Why is this reminding me of Twilight, which I never want to be reminded of???
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NO!
Don't change it... Talking about Twilight is disturbing, but compelling... like a trainwreck... must keep watching...
Did you know Meyer wrote a version of Twilight (just the first book, iirc) with everyone's genders swapped? I can't decide if that makes the whole thing better or worse. ._.;
I don't know who I must have offended to deserve this... Twilight v2 ... whoever's out there... anyone... I'm sorry...
CONFITEOR Deo omnipotenti, beatae Mariae semper Virgini, beato Michaeli Archangelo, beato Ioanni Baptistae, sanctis Apostolis Petro et Paulo, et omnibus Sanctis, quia peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Ideo precor beatam Mariam semper Virginem, beatum Michaelem Archangelum, beatum Ioannem Baptistam, sanctos Apostolos Petrum et Paulum, et omnes Sanctos, orare pro me ad Dominum Deum nostrum. Amen.
Did you know Meyer wrote a version of Twilight (just the first book, iirc) with everyone's genders swapped? I can't decide if that makes the whole thing better or worse. ._.;
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined by Stephenie Meyer ? Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
Hi,
I'm about a hundred K into my latest epic fantasy, "A Bittersweet Brew", and have built a monster. (Actually monster babies, but what the hey!)
Either way it runs like this. Monster mummy (daddy) is a sort of fae who lures young women to his grotto etc and has his way with them. (This is just background by the way.)
In time the women get with baby monster. Now baby monster is only partly of the real world, partly of another world - like daddy dearest. And is partly as such, ghostly. He also looks like a baby dragonish / dragonfly critter - so really pretty!!!
And in his human mother, the baby can't completely be sustained by her alone. So she has to go out and get preggers by other men, so her baby monster can consume the unborn foetuses inside her womb. (I said it was gross!)
The other thing about this particular monster baby is that since it's sort of ghostly / otherworldly, it can phase out of her skin and so appear as a baby ghost dragon monster, still attached to her middle, but able to fight etc! Think long sinuous neck and head full of teeth sticking out of her tummy!
Oh and a couple more lovely little details. As part of the mating process the human mother gainst the essence of its monster baby - pale blood and enormous strength etc. This is so the mother can support the growing monster inside her. But when it's time to be born, the baby will of course rip its way free of her, discarding her like a husk. (So it's sort of a parasite.)
The true horror of Twilight was that - at least here in NZ - it was originally marketted as a vampire story, which is why I got the first one out of the vid store. It was only about half way through when I realised kid vampire boy wasn't going to do the right thing and rip the throat out of the annoying girl, that the true horror of it really sank in! That it was in fact some sickening romance for brain dead ten year old girls. If only they'd marketted it correctly I would have never been exposed to such a nauseating video nasty - and I would have been perfectly happy with the movie - since I wouldn't have watched it!
There's plenty of superfluous nonsense in my books......some of it important, some of it world building, and some of it neither.
^No, but the few people who have read my books like them a lot.