meghantheinvincible:

malykine:

When you’ve taken the same courses for a hundred years, it’s probably pretty easy to get straight As without attending.

Maybe so, but I don’t care how many times you’ve taken the courses, you will not get straight A’s if you don’t do the homework, and even if the Cullen brood kept up on homework despite skipping half their classes, their records would not be spotless with that much truancy. I don’t know about Forks High, but at my school you could only get five days of excused absences before the school staff would be looking into what’s going on, and spotless record you would not have.

This could make it better or worse depending on your perspective, but it’s been implied more than once that the Cullens have absolutely nothing wrong with bribing academic officials to do what they want. Maybe that’s why they’d have spotless records.

reasoningwithvampires:

See also: Twiline

Bella exaggerates, again. It’s kinda what she does, I stopped noticing after a while. And subsequently getting nervous about the scale of her “real” problems.

You  do sound like a cold-hearted bitch, but it’s not as if this story and these characters don’t deserve it. More than most bad authors I’ve read, Meyer seems to take it for granted that the readers accept whatever she says, no matter what she might actually show that contradicts it.

audreyii-fic:

reasoningwithvampires:

Before

#Growing up its something you can measure. Growing up it happens every day

Being young is something you can treasure, but life is good when you’re growing up!

Except you don’t grow up if you’re a vampire. You stay exactly the way you were at that moment forever.

The sad thing is they take this in steps. First it’s somebody wants to kill Bella. Then it’s they’re connected to the newborn killers in Seattle. Then that it’s Victoria. It’s frankly almost adorable how Meyer honestly seemed to think she was surprising us.

I agree with the fraction tag so much. The books have this weird thing where they seem to think the numbers they toss out during dramatic situations make them more dramatic. Like at the end of Breaking Dawn it’s like “The 18 Volturi appeared, then 40 unaffiliated vampires showed up to witness them exterminate us. But there were 20 of us, and then the (however many) Quileutes reappeared to back us up.” I had a feeling it sounded all cool and upped the tension to Meyer, but to me it sounded like a fourth-grade story problem.

Similar here with the fraction. It makes that particular point last just a little too long.

Ladies and gentlemen, the entire point of Bella’s mom’s character: to reiterate that Bella and Edward are in love.

This makes me think of how Bella stopped liking music after Edward left, because music reminded her of Edward. No, I’m not even kidding. That’s official.

Even in the later books, Meyer still writes like she never intended for anybody else to read them.

I see things like this, and then I remember Twihards defending Meyer’s “libishomen” (or whatever) research fuck-up from Breaking Dawn because it’s a work of fiction, and I can’t help but laugh at them and their apparent belief that if something’s made up then people have no expectations when you bother to put real names on in it. Who’d ever heard of Forks before these books came out?