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hi sorry for ghosting you im being tormented by psychic horrors beyond your wildest comprehensions

I always find it funny when books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson get crap for being ‘witchcraft’ and ‘anti-christian’ but you know who no one ever talks about? Phillip Pullman and his masterpiece His Dark Materials trilogy. Some of you may recognize the first book’s title, The Golden Compass from the awful movie adaption, but seriously those books are so so good and full of badass witches rebelling against the vadican for mutilating children, gay ass angels who join the rebellion so they can be free to love each other, an ex nun who escapes the oppression of the church to pursue a life of science, a little girl who is so good at manipulating she overthrows an entire empire in one day, and a 12 year old boy who murders god with a knife

Phillip Pullman is legitimately baffled that Christians got all upset about Harry Potter when he was writing HDM at the same time. And typically when authors have those themes, they still say in interviews that it’s just a story and/or their writing about religious corruption than religion itself. But Pullman just goes and says “If God as the Christians imagine him exist, it would be a moral duty to kill him” (paraphrasing)

As a Jew, I second that sentiment of Pullman’s.

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Stop telling people in twitter that things already happened in tumblr!!! I wanna see them organize their own dashcon, dont discourage them!!!

#Whats that startrek thing? First contact protocol? #Just leave them be

Wow making Shaggy a hippie as the punchline of a joke in the 60s really backfired didn’t it?

ok bigger brained take imagine if in heroes of olympus all of the 7 aka the most powerful demigods had been children of the minor gods after the last series literally concluded w/ children of minor gods being claimed and getting recognition @ camp? 

To the people who said this looks like Percy, Annabeth, and Hazel…. absolutely yes. I support your vision.

but if Percy had gotten to keep the curse of Achilles??? and the romans are literally presented with a son of the “cursed” Neptune, who carried in a god – an event that is so rare at camp jupiter that it doesn’t even happen within the lifetime of some – and whose skin doesn’t break just like the greek myth of achilles???? the DRAMA that would have had!!! the tension, the flavor!!

so I’m rereading bella’s transformation, and she mentions having had venom and morphine in her veins before (from when james bit her) and I was thinking it would be very interesting to consider if that venom had actually made a difference to her in the intervening years. like, sure the process was halted pretty quickly, but it’s not like a computer program that has to download and then it’ll install. the venom starts its work right away, and that work is not undone even if it is quickly halted. so maybe after twilight bella is slightly stronger, slightly better at hearing, smelling. it’s slight and she attributes it to “bouncing back” well from her injuries. it’s why, in breaking dawn, when pregnant bella has to drink blood, that it smells and tastes good to her, despite the fact that a couple of books ago blood made her faint. it’s the reason she and edward were able to have a baby at all, despite the supposed chromosomal discrepancy between humans and vampires. you could consider her a carrier, perhaps. it gave her this edge, these hints of vampire traits while still stuck with frail human body systems.

the consistency……. smeyer wishes!

Honestly this could explain why she physically sees projections of Edward whenever she’d do something reckless in New Moon. Then after her transformation, this skill is heightened and her power is to project force fields and memories or thoughts.

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And it could possibly be why in later books (Eclipse) she doesn’t get woozy from her own blood?? Like when she cut her finger to spread it on the tree before the battle? (I could be misremembering)

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ok but this could also explain why Bella didn’t go through all the crazy mood swings and newborn behaviour when she first turned because her body had already been exposed to vampire venom witch might have heightened her repsosne to an influx, and then what with her having had Renesme that must have had an effect on her biology, because all that exposure to vampire dna might have helped her build up a tolerance 

OH ok i really like that. so maybe the transition only appears to take a few days, but that’s only the violent, accelerated process of mainly physical changes, and further changes in the brain take longer, which is why newborns are so crazy. like bella wakes and describes having a “lot of extra space” in her mind and being able to have multiple trains of thought at once, thirst always being one of them. but the cullens warn her, while she’s still human, that the only thing she’ll be able to think about - for years even - is blood? and i think it’s because traces of james’ venom, though they weren’t enough to change her, still lingered and forced the minute changes in brain chemistry that normally happen after one becomes a vampire. so she had already expressed her newborn chaoticness and singlemindedness in new moon while she was human and learned to handle it.

Just to add, James’ bite not only shimmered but was always a few degrees colder than other parts of Bella’s skin and this really makes me believe the closest parts to the bite were transformed a bit.

that makes me think, maybe bella punching jacob would have gone different if she’d hit him with the hand james bit? her hand is vampire, you could maybe say

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