Hopeless dreamer

Another twilight saga blog

[frommylimitedtravels]

At Staircase - Olympic National Park

[new2twilight2021]

What if… Edward’s bachelor party was in Jurassic park? 

[orphic-brume]

30 Days of Twilight

12 | Favorite Coven 

“As I examined them, the youngest, one of the Cullens, looked up and met my gaze, this time with evident curiosity in his expression. As I looked swiftly away, it seemed to me that his glance held some kind of unmet expectation.” 

[theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin]

Carlisle Cullen I tried for sparkles, unfortunately, they just kept coming out like multi-colored freckles. So he just gets weirdly glowy instead.

[therealvinelle]

This is seriously so amazing, and the only Twilight fanart I have ever seen, anywhere, that actually makes these people look like rocks. 

[cullencouture]

@jessicanjpa It would be cool if they were a visual glare, like when the sun comes out after it snows and you have to squint behind your sunglasses or close your curtains partway.

Between that and the smell I’d want to kill them too. 😂

[spanishinfluenza]

Human memories are hazy at best. They rarely exist in their entirety and even fragments of coherent recollection can be hard to come by. Most of the time, Esme believes this to be a very fortunate thing; she carries a lot of damage from her human life and she'd rather leave the specific anecdotes in the past.

But 3 weeks after her wedding, just two days after returning from her glorious honeymoon, Esme filed through the small stack of congratulations that Edward had left on Carlisle's desk while they were away. As she finished up a reply to the Denalis, thanking them for their kindness, her hand signed the base of the letter with a mind of its own. For a moment she was transported back to 1911, a teenage girl with her head in the clouds mindlessly tracing her new favourite name in different styles, deciding how the signature would look best on the page. Esme realised with some surprise that, even if she hadn't remembered, her hand never forgot the plenty practice it had at signing

Esme Anne Cullen

[spvcemnd]

[cullencouture]

If you think about it, it would make more sense for the Cullens to live in major cities as opposed to smaller ones - certainly much more than for them to choose small towns like Forks.

[finitetwilight]

You have been warned

[kellythepitiablefangirl]

“Edward looks a great deal like her–she had that same strange bronze shade to her hair, and her eyes were exactly the same color green.” His eyes were green?” I murmured, trying to picture it. “Yes….”

[panlight]

Carlisle Cullen, c. 1663  by Unknown Artist (or, really, by carnelianheart by way of photoshop…)

[cullencouture]

December 11, 2006

On this date, Irina is on her way to reconcile with the Cullens when, from a distance, she sees Renesmee:

She jumps to the conclusion that Renesmee is an immortal child, and instead of confronting Bella or Edward or Carlisle or anyone in the Cullen coven about their supposed crime she decides to go tell the Volturi.

Which… I’m sorry. I know about her past trauma with her mother’s execution and the scar that immortal children left on vampire culture and I know Renesmee appears to be one, especially if you aren’t close enough to her to hear her heartbeat, but what the hell is wrong with her? This is not her seeing an immortal child with some random vampires she doesn’t know, this is her thinking she sees one as part of a coven she is supposed to consider as family. Why wouldn’t she attempt to talk to them and convince them to destroy it? Why wouldn’t she even contact her own coven-mates to warn them what she saw and what she feels she needs to do? Between how easily Laurent deceived her and this piece of total miscalculation I can only assume she’s less than intelligent. Better that than vindictive–though her vindictiveness would be based on Bella supposedly lying about Laurent trying to kill her in an attempt to justify the wolves killing him, which leads me back to unintelligent, so…   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[cullencouture]

December 14, 2006

They’re coming for us. All of them.

(This is one of those scenes from the books that I could vividly see and hear in my head, and was so looking forward to seeing Alice and Edward make their horrified, in-unison pronouncement of doom in BD2, and then I watched it and…meh. What a disappointment!)

[cullencouture]

December 27, 2006

On this date, Bella picks up the forged documents from J. Jenks (who is relieved to hear that she isn’t planning to steal Renesmee away from Edward and run off into the sunset with Jacob…and maybe I have a weird sense of humor, but given the love-triangle-debacle that was Eclipse I found Bella’s surprise at his worry to be amusing.) Anyway! Bella heads back to the Cullen’s house and secretly rummages through Alice’s closet for (a huge amount of) cash, finds a black leather backpack small enough for Renesmee to wear, and tries to force a vision onto Alice with a clue of where she’s going to send Jacob and Renesmee. She hides the cash, IDs, the note to go to Rio, and letters for Renesmee, Jacob, Charlie, and Renee in the backpack where Jacob will find them after the battle.

And then there’s nothing to do but wait.

[cullencouture]

December 31, 2006

[cullencouture]

January 1, 2007

All the Cullens’ red-eyed house guests take their leave, off to murder humans in other parts of the world. Later that day, Bella and Edward escape to the meadow and she manages to let him read her mind:

Okay, so what were the BD2 people thinking?? It is January. Even in the Pacific Northwest’s temperate climate you don’t have a field of spring flowers in January! I suppose the implication is that the meadow is magical, and to be honest I’m all for actual magical elements, except that in canon the meadow is just a meadow. Exceptionally pretty and somewhat otherworldly in its perfection, but that’s all.

Also, making this post has reminded me that the entire saga takes place over a period of less than two years. That’s… kind of mind-boggling, actually. 

[cullencouture]

have you ever seen photos of Dolores Costello? she reminds me Esme so much, I recommend you to see.

I agree! I think I used a picture of her a (long) while back without knowing who she was. She definitely has a beauty and sweetness of expression that makes me think of Esme, but in many pictures she looks so sad. Not that Esme would never be sad, of course! But I do think of her as an optimistic, quietly happy person. I did find a bunch of pictures I can use on here though–thanks for the recommendation! And here’s one now:

[cullencouture]

Headcanons for Edward watching 1997 movie Titanic. He was alive when the real Titanic sank.

I’ve often wondered how the Cullens and other vampires feel about historical movies/fiction and other things like living history museums, etc. Because no matter how well-intentioned the producers, screenwriters, authors, historians, etc are, they have to get things wrong. Since the Cullens can’t tell anyone or do anything about the errors they see I think it would get pretty frustrating. And I would imagine that school (both high school and college) can be pretty aggravating for the same reason.

But there probably is an element of pain when it’s done correctly as well, in the way that nostalgia can be painful because we can never go back to the way things were. 

When the Titanic sank in April 1912, Edward was only 10 years old. He would have been aware of the sinking, but I don’t think it would have had a huge emotional impact on him at that age, and he may not have human memories of it at all. Esme, on the other hand, would have been 16 or 17 and is more likely to have been affected by it enough to remember it. Carlisle would also remember it, naturally, but given Jasper’s lifestyle and location he may not have heard about it at all.

Having said all that, I’ll finally answer your actual question ;) When Edward watched Titanic, I think what would really strike him is the clothes and the design of the rooms and the way people lived and the transition from the “Old World” way of doing things in the Gilded Age to the hints of the oncoming freedoms of the Jazz Age. He grew up in that world, and I think it would have been both interesting and nostalgic for him to be immersed in it again. I also think he would have liked Rose’s character, though she likely also would have shocked him a bit. And hopefully, watching it would stir up some happy human memories. :)

[esmesfriendforever]

That’s why I imagine Esme living something about when she was human. in my fic her cousin and uncles  died in Titanic.

(I was only 9 (almost 10  - was september and my birthday is october)  when WTC suffered the terrorist attack but I remember it - I saw in TV when the airplane hit the 2nd tower

ok in 1912 i know hasn’t mass media, just newspaper or radio maybe, and the news don’t cross the world so fast like nowadays)

[cullencouture]

Hi, birthday friend! Mine is in October too. :)

Titanic, while it was tragic and sensationalized in the news media of the time, wasn’t really a pivotal “I remember exactly where I was when I heard about it” moment in history the way 9/11 is—and rightly so, since 9/11 was a visually and emotionally shocking act of terrorism and the Titanic disaster was the unintentional result of human error. The sinking was received more with shock than horror (unless you were unfortunate enough to know someone on board, of course) and to be frank, a lot of the interest had more to do with the “celebrities” on board than the disaster as a whole. I’m not trying to say it was historically insignificant or that it was so unimportant that Edward wouldn’t have heard about it or remembered it while human, just that as a ten year old boy it’s not likely to have made such an impact on him that his brain insisted it was an important enough memory to take with him into vampirism. The sinking of the Lusitania, on the other hand, he very well may remember. He was older, it was (allegedly) an unprovoked act of war against a defenseless civilian ship, and its sinking was used so successfully in US war propaganda that it may be tied together in his mind with his desire to enlist.

[esmesfriendforever]

Happy birthday Dr. Carlisle!