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[ugh_emotions]

[Surprisingly quickly after the arrival of the recommended reading, a typed rant appears on the bulletin board. It is not signed.]

This Twilight book is fucking terrible and here is why:

• It's boring
  
• It's a stupid romance
  
• Uses way to much of that thing where like, things are emphasised a lot. Hyperbolic, or whatever
  
• Story structure is shit, most of it is about the stupid boring romance with the stupid boring characters, and then hostiles appear out of nowhere without even one scene ominously hinting about their existence
  
• Planetary Security in this place sucks
  
• The stupid fucking love interest Edward also sucks and is clearly hostile
  
• If Bella has to have a stupid love interested she should pick someone less likely to murder her
  
• He admits to wanting to eat her
  
• He breaks and enters into her sleeping quarters, as well as other clear stalking behaviours
  
• Seriously he keeps going on about how much he wants to eat Bella, what the fuck
  
• Why is she not concerned about this, does she want to fucking die
  
• Bella is also terrible. And boring.
  
• (Also Edward liking her smell is disgusting, that's just gross)
  
• The hostiles that arrived at the end distracted from the stupid romance plot, so I guess that sucked slightly less than the rest of the book, but it was still badly written and fucking stupid

In conclusion: it sucks.

Comments

[stabgremlin]

[Is this reply for him? No.

Is he going to respond to it anyway? Yes.]

Oh good, looks like I'm not the only one here from a deeply messed up society.

Good to know.

Considering the "female eating the male thing"... Insectoid?
Or something else?

- Major Nahain

[silkwaltz]

Messed up? I'm afraid I don't follow...

[Sorry, Demure is still a bit lost in the social conditioning sauce yet.]

Drider, actually. So... arachnoid, by your terminology, I suppose?

- Demure of Clan Hla'afin

[stabgremlin]

Can't say I'm familiar with... Is the plural "driders" or something else?

But arachnoid explains it well enough.

Less messed up for you then but most humanoids find the concept of eating your mate to be less romantic and more somewhere on a sliding scale from "squicky" to "deeply traumatizing"— depending on who you ask.

- Major Nahain

[silkwaltz]

'Driders' would be correct, yes.

I mean... it's seen as wasteful and unseemly to eat your mate too early of course. The more children he can sire, the more your Clan gets out of the match after all. But it's also wasteful not to eat them eventually. Waiting until you're both older and he cannot sire any more young is the romantic ideal.

[stabgremlin]

Good to know.

I think a lot of arachnoid and insectoid species would agree on those points. I haven't asked, but I think killiks probably also operate on similar... Romantic ideals? At least for the members of their Hives that share their biology, anyway.

But for most human or near-human species, the thought of eating anything that can form a complete sentence is deeply uncomfortable.

Even when they've outlived their perceived usefulness.