panlight

Panlight (noun)  Pan = all, light = Twilight. Panlight = All Twilight. Because Bella, Edward and Jacob aren't the only characters in the story.

[marshayame]

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[midnightella-mass]

tbh Esme was tragically underutilized in the twilight saga. like a woman who is forever frozen in the early stages of motherhood, turning the grief for her son into a fierce need to mother every person that walks into her home?? that Bella was a character who was in desperate need of a mother and Esme was right there in desperate need to always BE a mother?? and then she was literally never used unless she was mothering Edward or glued to Carlisle’s hip, despite the fact that she should have probably been more important to Bella than Carlisle ever was

[panlight]

Which vampires Bella would be attracted (physically or emotionally) to of Edward didn't exist based on her book thoughts? Who do you think she would want a relationship with if no one had a mate?

Looks-wise, she seems to ranks Rosalie and Carlisle up there with Edward. The others are attractive but her descriptions of them tends to focus on other things (Esme's softness, Alice's grace, Emmett's muscles, Jasper's scars) rather than the just jaw-dropping WOW we get about Edward, Rosalie and Carlisle.

Personality wise, Bella seems to love Alice and Emmett.

The thing is, though, I almost think she'd find relationships with them kind of boring? That is, the fact that Edward is obsessed with her is part of the attraction? He's fighting his very basest vampire instincts not to kill her, he's putting up with incredible temptation and pain to be near her. It's literal proof of his love for her and I think that's very intoxicating and also just, like, reassuring to her.

Carlisle's not bothered by human blood anymore, either Bella's specifically or anyone's generally. There's not much danger, no real tension, no proof. He wouldn't be struggling. Emmett and Alice would just be like, "sure I'll make you a vampire or, um, maybe ask Carlisle to do it so I don't kill you" and wouldn't brood about dooming her to a vampire life and again it would loose some of that intensity and romance, that "I love you so much I can't condemn you to this!" thing.

Jasper would probably just kill her, whoops, and Esme seems firmly in "mom" territory in Bella's mind.

Rosalie? Maybe. The problem is convincing me that Rosalie would like Bella back. Fanfic writers can do it, but in canon one of the things I love most about Rosalie is that she doesn't like Bella. Universally adored main characters are annoying to me. Some people just don't vibe with others and that's okay! She is the most Edwardian in her dramatics and anti-vampire stance. But again, the thirst is not a specific problem unless you re-write it.

Outside of the Cullens, maybe a Volturi? That has danger and has the moral stakes (although they don't end up meaning anything in Breaking Dawn) AND had the Cinderella sort of fantasy of this rich, powerful, borderline royal vampire. Marcus is young and if Bella could catch his attention there's that "proof" and reassurance again, like this guy has been an empty husk for centuries but he sees something in her, wow!

And I don't mean to like, crap on Bella here. This is a romance! The whole "I am singularly special to this person" is part of the fantasy. And Bella as a character with her self-esteem and abandonment issues is extra primed for it.

Not a vampire, but there's also Jacob, of course. She finds him physically attractive, they are emotionally close. She is, what, a year or two older than him though. I think in a world with no Edward they might date but the first go-round wouldn't last too long. They're too young and don't have the unchanging vampire factor or imprinting. I think if they're both still in the La Push/Forks area and single at the same time in the future though it might work out. Imprinting is a problem but again, there's that risk and also the thought of like, "he could wait for true cosmic love but he picked ME instead."

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[panlight]

Hi there! Do you have any headcanons about pre-family Carlisle at work (hospital) or as an university professor (the guide mention he does that from time to time, right?) And any headcanons about his home, how it was and stuff like that (again pre-family, for some reason I'm on a fixation right now about what he was like before being a coven leader/father figure). Actually matter of fact, do you also have any headcanons about him post-family but that does not involve his family, like things that are "just him" (not motivated/influenced by his family)?

This is what I mean when I say I'm not shippy: I would happily read books about Carlisle's life when he was on his own and I don't need him to have a partner or a family or anything. I think it's really interesting! And I think people forget about all that time he spent alone and often just make him like Mr. Brady in fics. As it stands, he's still spent more time alone than with a family. You could argue this is all still kind of "new."

Anyway I think he usually chose a home on the outskirts of town; he has a lot of books and paintings. I think he would decorate the entryway and a sitting room/parlor in case he had to receive guests but most of the time he didn't bother furnishing the whole house or unpacking everything because like, what does it matter? But he did like having a nice space to read and study.

At one point his loneliness got so bad that he tried adopting a kitten. He knew animals were afraid of vampires but he thought maybe if he got a very young one that the instinct could be overcome. But after a week of the kitten hiding in terror and only coming out to eat when Carlisle was at work, he decided it was too cruel to try and found someone else to take the cat. I like to think he named it something really nerdy like Hippocrates or whatever.

When the pet thing failed I think he might have gotten really into gardening for awhile. Handy to have some herbs for treatments and the like but also just to have life around him, something growing.

He has great success as a surgeon even before germ theory because he DID clean his tools and clothing, not because he figured it out before everyone else, but because he had to get the scent of blood out of it so as not to torture himself. He wasn't immune to the scent back then so he was always meticulously clean so his throat wouldn't burn as much.

I think he got really into photography when it was first developed, less as an artist and more as a scientist. But there are a few albums of his early photos that are uncannily clear because vampires are by nature rather still so those long exposure times at the beginning weren't a problem for him.

He tried to take on the most dangerous tasks during pandemics and the like knowing he was immune to any human illness, but his superiors pushed pack all like, "you're a young man with your whole life ahead of you, let us old folks risk it" and it was incredibly frustrating because, in fact, he's the old man. He just doesn't look it. I think people also don't factor in HOW young he looks and what a pain in the ass that would be when starting over at a new hospital. They're all looking at him like he's this kid fresh out of med school and he has to prove himself over and over again. It's easy when reading the books as a teenager or watching the movies where he's a decade older physically to be like "that is an Adult" but in the books he's 23. That's barely out of college let alone med school, residency, etc. He looks like a baby.

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[quill-and-feather]

❀˖° The Cullen Girls (& Bella) °˖❀

My favorites ღ Alice and Rosalie’s fashion senses were a bit hard for me, as I feel like Alice dresses like this and in more billowy, lighter outfits, and Rosalie can gravitate for a more casual style (rather than always sticking to the office chic, ‘30s silhouette as I drew here). Let me know which style suits both of them better!

[rosieandthemoon]

[twilightbuckley]

Category is: misunderstood girls who I’ll love and defend until my last breath

[stonechild]

source

[pinkfanged]

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (2009) — dir. Chris Weitz

[panlight]

You are a student at Forks High.

Your teacher is randomly assigning a group project. It's going to be major part of your grade. For the purposes of this question, assume this class is some sort of elective that has a mix of juniors and seniors.

Which group do you want to be part of?

Rosalie, Eric, Bella

Edward, Mike, Jessica

Lauren, Jasper, Angela

Tyler, Emmett, Alice

Voting ended onJul 19

[weepingveil]

[indecentkhakiskirt]

I like the idea that some vampires become obsessively fixated on children and childlike things because they see children as a perfect representation of the innocence and purity they no longer have. It's delightfully eerie to think about a rash of immortal children, of vampires becoming so obsessed with possessing a child's purity that they steal the rest of that child's life and erase everything they ever could have become in order to keep them in a state of perpetual innocence. And I do like the implication that the Cullens themselves are slightly warped in this same way.

However. I absolutely do not think Stephanie Meyer recognized any of these traits in her characters. I'm almost positive she thought shit like Rosalie being attracted to Emmett as a lover because his boyish features reminded her of the son she could never have was a totally normal and relatable thing to write and we would all find it extremely romantic.

[seabeck]

Frost and light

[windder]

My queen,Leah. Credit to the artists, no photo is mine, but the edit is!

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