donnaimmaculata ([personal profile] donnaimmaculata) wrote2008-08-06 01:28 pm

Teh Sparkly

Everything I know about Twilight I have learned from my flist, and I know that I will never, ever read the books. I never intended to waste any words on them, either, but I would like some confirmation that what I've now read is true:

Bella gives birth to Edmund's Sparkly!Vampire!Magical!WerewolfSoulmate!Baby and the following things happen in the process:

a) she pukes blood
b) the Sparkly!Vampire!Magical!WerewolfSoulmate!Baby breaks her pelvis and her spine
c) Edmund uses his awesome sparkly marble teeth to bite the Sparkly!Vampire!Magical!WerewolfSoulmate!Baby free from the womb

Really? I mean, seriously? Because if so, then this is the most beautiful cracky squick ever, and I am seriously impressed with SMeyer. I would have never dared to put anything like that into a novel I intend to be published and read by children.

Then again, I am not a romantic :-(

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Hah! I didn't even think of the film! Frankly, when I stumbled upon this piece of information on fandom_wank, of all places, I thought it was just wankers being sarcastic. And then, slowly, realisation dawned that this is the real Twilight canon and the conclusion of long-year high-school courting and vampire UST.

Well, thank God there was no sex before marriage. Phew!

I hope it will make it in the film. That would be so brilliant. Sparkly, even.

[identity profile] shocolate.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The first one is vaguely filmable - UST, sparkles, she's kidnapped by a naughty vampire and he rescues her.

You can see why they'd make it, to entertain the tweenagers.

Then this
"Get her breathing! I've got to get him out before – "

Another shattering crack inside her body, the loudest yet, so loud that we both froze in shock waiting for her answering shriek. Nothing. Her legs, which had been curled up in agony, now went limp, sprawling out in an unnatural way.

"Her spine," he choked in horror.

"Get it out of her!" I snarled, flinging the scalpel at him. "She won't feel anything now!"

And then I bent over her head. Her mouth looked clear, so I pressed mine to hers and blew a lungful of air into it. I felt her twitching body expand, so there was nothing blocking her throat.

Her lips tasted like blood.

I could hear her heart, thumping unevenly.Keep it going, I thought fiercely at her, blowing another gust of air into her body.You promised. Keep your heart beating.

I heard the soft, wet sound of the scalpel across her stomach. More blood dripping to the floor.

The next sound jolted through me, unexpected, terrifying. Like metal being shredded apart. The sound brought back the fight in the clearing so many months ago, the tearing sound of the newborns being ripped apart. I glanced over to see Edward's face pressed against the bulge. Vampire teeth – a surefire way to cut through vampire skin.
And then he turns her into a vampire, to save her - and she has better and sparklier powers than anyone, evah!

And then the bad guy vampires turn up to destroy the baby - because baby vampires aren't allowed - and good guy vampires come from all over the world, with different special powers - and they are ready to GIVE BATTLE - and the film makers are going 'oh well, we'll just have to find a sound effect for a cracking spine and then we get to finish with a battle' - and her Great Love covers them all with a shield - and it turns out the baby isn't really a vampire and the bad guys go 'oh, my mistake' and go home....

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, I honestly can't tell whether it's an excerpt from the Real Thing or you being sarcastic.

Regardless, it does sound amazing.

[identity profile] shocolate.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Every word true, your honour!

It is the fandom that cannot be crack ficced - nothing can be as face-palmy as the canon!

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Who's the narrator, then? And does s/he narrate the whole novel? And if so, how can s/he know the pillow-biting details of the wedding night?

Am I overthinking this? I rather think I am.

[identity profile] rosina-alcona.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the werewolve who's in love with her (who then imprints on her baby, because that isn't weird) is narrating that particular passage.

But the werewolf does some chapters and Bella does the rest. I think.

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Shame. I think Bella should narrate the birth scene.

SMeyer took the whole werewolves-mate-for-life scenario to a whole new level, didn't she?

[identity profile] shocolate.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's her narrating the first three books.

Then this car-crash last one is divided into three 'books' - she narrates the first - waking up after her wedding night, covered in feathers, and he says 'I bit a few pillows' (utter bottom) - then the werewolf who has always loved her and tried to force himself on her - narrates the second part, including the birth scene, and imprinting on the new born baby - I think it goes back to Bella narrating the third part??

I haven't actually read this one.

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I never knew of the existence of the werewolf until I came across the spoilers wank a few days ago. I always thought it was just Bella and Edward.

I am, however, developing a deep affection for the werewolf. He's so beautifully fucked-up - I think he and Fenrir would get on like a house on fire, up to and including their affinity for young children.

Fenrir, too, only "imprinted" himself on Remus!

[identity profile] cutecoati.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The pillow-biting scene had me shriek with glee.

I'm still not sure, though, whether SMeyer really doesn't know what the term refers to (which would be, like, dude) or, um, yeah... *brain shuts down*

Damn, I needa read books #2 and 3. And # 4. For real, that is, not via fandom ;D

[identity profile] shocolate.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I... maybe a good Mormon mother of twelve wouldn't know the term - but none of her editors??

Unless they all pissed themselves laughing and left it in...

Need the pdfs??

[identity profile] cutecoati.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Unless they all pissed themselves laughing and left it in...

I like that theory. *nods*

Pdf??? OMG I'll be your slave forevah!

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Heh! I can actually imagine that normal people are not aware of the meaning. I know I often come across RL people whom I would expect to be familiar with, ah, relevant terminology, but then it turns out I've got to explain the bloody obvious.

Some time ago, I had to explain what "butt plugs" are - to a woman in her 20s, who studies media and knows her way around the Internet. And has a sex life, presumably. I was quite shocked, I can tell you.

[identity profile] ladyjaneva.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
ugh, I fell really, really dumb right now - please enlight me about "pillow-biting"?

[identity profile] cutecoati.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
pillow biter

Seeing that SMeyer has frequently claimed in interviews that 'her characters don't tell her everything', it seems that Edward has been more than secretive about some, um, things :DDD

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2008-08-25 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
Ahaha! I love the idea of Edward keepin his sexual orientation secret from his creator. There's a meta fic in there somewhere.

With all that sparkling going on, Edward would be the star of every gay pride parade in the world.