#edwardsmate4ever

[threebooksoneplot]

I'm stupid and can't find your AO3. Can you link it so I can read you extra scenes for Dark Noon and Euphoria and Something? Thank you! Love, love, love your podcast!!

TYSM for the love!! You can read Dark Noon and Euphoria and Agony (formerly Something) on AO3 here! It's currently updated through Episode 32.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(Today's chapters from Episode 33 should go live...whenever Shannon gets home from work. She's on that girlgrind)

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

I'd love to know your thoughts about Laurent. Do you think he ever would have fallen in line with the diet for Irina? How much did Aro hate him?

Laurent's is a tale of delightful hubris.

He's a man determined to social climb who never realizes that turning into a vampire was the worst thing he can do for himself in this regard. He gets turned, tries to ingratiate with the powerful, and makes the mistake of picking the Romanians then never realizes he's useless to the Volturi.

He slinks further and further down into society until he's stuck with James and Victoria, who terrify him. He briefly gets out and shacks up with the Denali, but the diet is weird and awful and he's not a fan.

Then he's killed by teenage mutant ninja werewolves in Forks Washington, the middle of nowhere, because he was trying to do Bella Swan a favor by eating her before Victoria could torture her to death.

What a life.

Would He Ever Have Fallen in Love with Irina?

Doesn't seem like it. Granted we only get that one conversation with Bella but he didn't seem to be missing her all that much and even makes reference to Tanya and not just Irina. That's not a guy who is... attached.

He also was clearly disenchanted with the diet and it seemed he was doing it mostly for protection from Victoria. Which didn't end up working out for him as she tracked him down and made him do her bidding anyway.

Basically, Laurent wasn't interested, and I think he already had a foot out the door.

How Much Did Aro Hate Him?

I don't think Aro did, he just didn't want the guy around. Laurent brought nothing to the table, was a useless social climber, and willing to hang out with people like Vlad and Stefan.

I don't think Laurent was ever much more than an afterthought as Aro kicked him out the door.

That's Laurent's trouble, he thinks he's much more important than he ever actually is and everyone takes constant advantage of this.

[rankheresy]

Author reveal

The authors for the January writing competition have been revealed!

EdwardsMate4Ever wrote The Angel of Music

kailink wrote All the World's a Stage

KeyboardAndaDream wrote Blue Wallpaper

The Carnivorous Muffin and Vinelle wrote A Little Night Music

Thanks to all contributors!

[thecarnivorousmuffinart]

Please enjoy this terrible art of Edward from Bleach on the Brain/ Leech in the Rain xx

Pffft, oh I do.

Fan art for Leech in the Rain by myself and @therealvinelle, by @edwardsmate4ever

[therealvinelle]

You and Muffin write the most addictive fic. You might say they're my brand of heroin...

Pfffft, well, for what it's worth we're addicted as well.

Look, @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin, praise!

[gisellelx]

Hey lady. You know I have to aim one of these at One Day...

😈🙋‍♀️💔👐

Thank you for the ask, @edwardsmate4ever! And I think I might be about to break through I block that I hope will send me tumbling toward the end of this thing...

From Writers Emoji Ask:

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

One Day is full of them. "Playfully mean" is I think a stretch for anything I ever mean to do? But deliberately misdirect people? I love doing that. I like playing with people's expectations about what is going on and then letting them discover that what I'm writing is not that. "Sensitivity to Initial Conditions" does this. If I've done my job right--and many reviewers have said it took them a moment in exactly that way, so I think I have--it's not immediately apparent what happened to Esme, Emmett and Rosalie, so it's only when you get to the fourth vignette that you realize it's an AU. There is one twist in One Day that is so deep that I myself didn't see it until I was stuck on a section and then realized that something I was thinking would happen at the end of the fic had to have happened before the start of the fic. And there are several others at varying degrees of "people have already guessed this" to "no one is gonna see this coming." They're fun to write.

🙋‍♀️ Do any irl people know you write fanfic?

Literally everybody. 😂🤣😂 I don't give a lot of people my fanfic handle and I otherwise try not to "cross the streams" as it were but I am a big champion of fanwork and as a result have published and talked about writing fanfic in major national venues so it's a pretty open secret. (Humblebrag! Maybe just brag brag. But seriously I just talked about this today to my first-year seminar.) I set as my litmus test to not post anything I would feel ashamed of someone who knows me discovering and knowing it was mine and so when I either ask or allow someone to know my fanfic is mine, it might be a little weird but it's not embarrassing. One of my best compliments was when my lifelong bestie was reading Ithaca and said, "You know, I got absorbed in the story and totally forgot it was you writing it." My dad also reads a lot of my fanfic. He's 78 and doesn't understand the vampire stuff but he is super proud of my writing and it's very cute. Twice in the past someone has figured out who I am and googled me and emailed my work email. That is just...weird? Even though on the one hand it's fine for all the above reasons. Please don't email me at work, even if you figure it out. My gmail is the same as my fanfic handle and I just feel more comfortable answering about fanfic through fanfic channels.

💔 Is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?

No but One Day comes close. Carlisle in an "Edward died" scenario is really hard to write. I have to tap into his pain to write it, but that makes it painful to write and as a result it often leads me to leave it alone for months and years. I don't think I could ever write Edward in a "Carlisle died" scenario. Maybe for a short short story but not much longer than that.

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

Literally the last things out of my keyboard just before I hopped back onto tumblr:

Nabil was standing next to my desk, holding something rectangular in his hands. It took me a second longer than it should have to realize what it was, and my stomach wrenched. His brow was furrowed as he scrutinized the photograph in his hands. I could wonder what he was thinking. Was the look on my face real? Was it just seventeen-year-old hopefulness? Was it love? Was it the same thing I felt for him? Was the man in the photo more to me than he was? Was he…human? I didn’t say anything, just stood at the junction between the living room and the short hallway, crossing my arms over my chest, until Nabil finally looked up and noticed me there. He lifted the photo frame ever so slightly. “This is him,” he said quietly. “Eli?” I nodded. “Junior prom.”

[edwardsmate4ever]

All My Fic: on FFN and AO3

Works on AO3 are only available for registered users due to AI bots stealing work.

Recent completed fics:

Embry and the Trials of Fate

Jakeward: Full Circle: Back to the Beginning

Visions Interrupted plus Outtakes (Alice's Breaking Dawn/complete)

Carlward: Cast Aside

Humor/Crackfic: Emmett Tries to Understand

Smutty One-Shots: A Bit of Distraction

Graduation Blanket Meme

Rocky Horror/Twilight Photosets:

Edward as Brad, Bella as Janet, Carlisle as Brad, Esme as Janet, Rosalie as The Usherette, Jasper as Riff Raff, Charlie as Criminologist, Billy as Dr Scott, Victoria as Magenta, Alice as Columbia, Jacob as Eddie, Emmett as Rocky, set1 and set2, Edward as Frank N Furter

[therealvinelle]

Vinelle would you and/or muffin every consider writing pack centered fic? I’d love to see your perspective(s) on it!

Thank you! Look, @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin, faith in our abilities!

Nothing pack centered is on the agenda, as is my favorite characters to write about are Bella, Carlisle, Aro, Marcus, the Cullens and the Volturi. I haven't had any ideas for the pack, at least, not ideas that I fell in love with.

Still, there are vague plans for a fic where the pack will be featured, though if the fic happens they'll have a terrible time.

Until then, there's Embry Call and the Trials of Fate by @edwardsmate4ever, which was apparently inspired by Muffin and me. You should check it out!