this is a twilight post (wait, don't defriend me just yet!)

[borg_princess]

A lot of times, I qualify statements with ‘this is so embarrassing, but…’ or ‘I’m kinda ashamed to say this’.But really? I don’t have to do that! I don’t need to justify my tastes, no matter how much I feel like I do. I’m sure most of you guys don’t judge me incessantly, or if you do side-eye me on something, well, it’s not the end of the world. We

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[pristineungift]

>_> I secretly read and highly enjoy well written Alice/Jasper. Because. Their characters are canonically much less faily and the fic typically is too.

Don't tell anyone

[pristineungift]

Also, you've convinced me. I'll probably read this fic when I have time. I unfortunately DO have all the books. Like you, I heard a lot of good things and I'd already read The Host which is a science fiction novel by S. Meyer that actually is pretty amazing, and so I bought the box set.

It's kind of ok if you just read the parts about Alice. So like. About 20 pages in each book. >_>

I honestly don't know what happened with Twilight though. People knock S. Meyer for being a horrible author, but The Host is one of the best executed, most moving novels I have ever read. I cried buckets of tears of sorrow, horror, and amazement the first time I read it, and I still cry at each re-read at a certain scene. I have read it four times now, and I still love it. Perhaps Meyer just knows who she's writing for? Twilight is geared at angsty pre-teens, and The Host was meant for adults. The heroine of The Host is smart, resourceful, cares for others, flawed, and understanding. It is truly on my list of top ten books I have ever read

[borg_princess]

O.O I am honored you trust me with this secret! I shall try to keep myself from spreading it around, for the sake of your rep! ^_~

Thing is, there should be no shame in reading well-written fanfic. Even if the source lacks all crediblity and is a laughingstock, that shouldn't have any reflection on when a good or even great author takes the material and works magic with it. Which is what happened here, imo! <3

[weird_fin]

I just glanced over the Twilight/fic talk tbh. But those GIFS.

Just the first two and I went. ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING. Adorable Pheobe AND tSoM?! *flails*

And then there was Emma, Misha, the Pink Panther ♥ Santana, the Grinch... and Being Human (UK)!!

[borg_princess]

LOLOLOL. I'm glad my gifs are insidiously owning your brain, mwahaha! LISTEN TO THEEEEM, THEY WANT YOU TO REEEEAD THIS FIIIIIC.

Nah, no pressure, I mean, if you do and enjoy it, that's great. But this post was mainly me being way too excited and needing an outlet or else I'd explode from containing my feelings!

I'd use my one Annie icon except she's giving the finger, so that's not very appropriate, haha. She's so adorable, though!

[unnecessary_]

I'm really proud of you for the I Regret Nothing mentality. :)

[borg_princess]

Thank you! IDK, I tend to type up a few posts and then I'm too embarrassed to post them for whatever reason (well, mainly 'coz I think people will laugh at me) and that's just either unnecessary paranoia, 'coz you guys are awesome and wouldn't be mean like that, or it's not the end of the world if someone laughs at me being into a Twilight fic, right? So yes. I am making my stand! :P

[lotrangel17]

I have a Severus icon with that! Probably found it through one of your posts :)

I read the Twilight books but never saw the movies or anything. Its a large fandom though, like HP.

I love the Cordy gif! I am so stealing that :)

[borg_princess]

OMG! No, that wasn't through my req posts (one of the few... *g* I think iconmakers everywhere dreaded my numerous Snape requests, haha), but I REALLY WANT IT, I'M TAKING IT, OKAY? (let me know if it ain't, ofc)

I read the first and nearly combusted from the total dreckitude. Just. I was tearing my hair out by the end, I couldn't handle it. I actually paid to see the second movie at the cinemas, lol, and had a fantastic time, it was SO FUNNY. IDK if the rest of the cinema was laughing with me, but it was utterly lolworthy.

I steal gifs from everywhere, hehe, the Cordy one really appealed to me. ^_^

[lotrangel17]

Most definitely save it - it's a great quote :)

I read them because Sara liked them and she was the reason I got hooked on Harry Potter so I gave them a chance. Nowhere as good - no one in Twilight kept my interest the way Snape did :)

[borg_princess]

It's now added to my userpics and I edited the post to use that icon, so appropriate! :D

I wish more authors would write about characters like Snape. I find his sort of brooding anti-hero so much more interesting than golden boy, the-world-is-black-and-white, I-am-so-noble-rawr types. Oh, well, thank goodness for fanfic!

[alicorn24]

Thanks so much for the linkage and the kind review! I'm glad you're enjoying the fic - hope to see more updates on your progress as you proceed through Luminosity. (And if you don't hate me at the end of Luminosity, also Radiance and Flashes :D)

I'd appreciate it if you'd correct in your text that I and the author of Methods of Rationality aren't the same person. We're friends, but he's Eliezer Yudkowsky and I'm Alicorn. (We aren't even the same gender!) He's more popular; I can keep a schedule. He wrote a complete overhaul; I wrote a single-point-of-departure.

[borg_princess]

I've edited that now. I have no idea how I came up with that notion, but it's gone now. I wish I could retcon that from existence. It's embarrassing enough having a friend tell me that, I'm like, wanting to bury my head in the sand and die of humiliation that the actual author saw that. *whimpers*

(Um, if you don't mind me asking, how did you come across my post?)

Anyway, all that aside, it's really cool to actually talk to you, and well, as you can see, I LOVE THIS FIC A LOT, so yes. ♥___♥

if you don't hate me at the end of Luminosity

O.O Now...now I'm paranoid. *bites nails*

[alicorn24]

*huggle* don't worry! Of people I could be mixed up with, Eliezer is not especially objectionable! He's a smart guy and people like his fiction.

I watch my site traffic obsessively and saw people following your link in.

I'm so glad you love my fic :D

I do try to instill a healthy sense of fear in my readers :3