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[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.

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Man, now I’m glad I skipped out on this because of the cooties when I was young and stupid. Now that I’m old and wise it still sucks. All so terribly, compulsorily het and romantic.

Like I get that you don’t read a romance novel for speeches on the power of platonic friendship or found family but would it have killed Mayer to give Bella real friends or a hint of queer yearning? Or is my answer “she was Mormon and it shows?”

What the fuck is a Mormon?

The Mormons, the Church of Latter Day Saints according to them, are a particularly pernicious and restrictive cult with Christian trappings. Meyer wasn't shy about being one. Thinking that what Edward is doing is romantic rather than hello cops police (not that the police would necessarily help) tracks with a Mormon upbringing, unfortunately.

The number of queers I've met who got screwed up beyond all belief by a Mormon upbringing before they escaped from them is staggering.

Oh. A stupid religion thing.

[SecUnit would rather not know anything about human religion things. Mostly because it largely seemed to involve mistakenly thinking that imaginary, made up things actually existed.

Sometimes, though, humans got really angry about other humans not believing in the same imaginary things as they did. Or insisted that their imaginary made up beliefs meant that they had to go around hurting themselves, or each other. The worst ones would have the humans literally killing themselves. They weren't ever fun to deal with.]

You are not wrong.

More concerning is that this seems to be a subtle hint about the next Story, if what the folks who experienced the last one are to be believed. At least the William Shakespeare promises a better written vampire on werewolf ballroom blitz, but I am not looking forward to even the chance of being a sparkly stalker.

I like the plays much better. They're actually good. Really good.

[In fact, it hadn't left the projection room once it realised they were there. It had been watching, enthralled, continuously ever since.]

If the Library tries to make me want to eat humans I will set myself on fire and jump off the nearest excessively high vantage point.

…if entering the story with a role is a kind of magical curse, a mind altering effect... I think it needs to give you a role that’s apt, and if it can’t the spell fails.

If you aren’t exactly yourself, you’ll at least be someone you could conceivably have been. I think it’s far more likely you’ll be the girl’s father with a shotgun and a wooden stake than a vampire.

I'm not going to be anyone's parent. I don't have offspring and I don't want any.

But the weaponry is fine.

Or a brother, or a friend, or ~~Van Helsing a professional monster hunter. Whatever.~~

[curiously, she wrote out, then erased, the struck text.]

I wouldn't be anyone's brother. I don't have a gender.

[Why the fuck did the humans here keep thinking it had a gender? It hadn't said it had a gender anywhere.]

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Belated CW: One of Claire’s friends had abusive and also Mormon parents and Claire conflates these

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