A Daydream of a Poor Schoolgirl

Kade 2022-03-15 09:01:03

Vampires and werewolves, woohoo, that sounds good.
It's not that werewolves fought vampires, but that they were obsessed with a little girl, and of course they were all little boys. This is a bowl of ecstasy soup for young teenagers.
Everything is a symbol and a suggestion, an allegory.
Not even real porn and violence.
Vampire, cold, educated, restrained, so thin that he only seduces people with his eyes, comes and goes without a trace, even abstinence, traditional, listens to classical music, lives in a minimalist forest mansion;
werewolf, warm, impulsive, muscular, Loves cliff diving, riding a motorcycle, and living a tribal life in a forest cabin.
One is noble, the other is indigenous, which one do you choose?
Typical white elitist choices, needless to say.
But what if you want both?
That's Hamlet's question: how am I going to live and die? Modern people don't go to the horns.
The last point is rather disgusting - little girls have to be broken, and often cut themselves at the juncture of life and death to bleed and sacrifice themselves, and finally get the qualification to become a noble.
The living cannot be the living dead. This is the post-colonial culture of the flat earth: half-dead.
This daydream is at its extreme. The little girl is actually going to lie in the arms of the muscular man, and let the other one watch jealously all night long, and make each other's hearts before the battle to protect her, while she pretends to sleep and listen. Such a scheming little girl, don't do it.
If you act like this, you won't be able to return to the matriarchal clan, it's just a gust of wind.

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse quotes

  • Rosalie Hale: [talking about the night she died, after she was assaulted by her fiance & his friends] They left me in the street, thinking I was dead. Believe me, I wanted to be.

    [beat]

    Rosalie Hale: Carlisle found me. He smelled all the blood. Thought he was helping me.

    Bella Swan: I'm sorry.

    Rosalie Hale: [pause; eventually Rosalie continues with a slight smile] I got my revenge on them.

    [pause]

    Rosalie Hale: One at a time.

    [enters flashback]

    Rosalie Hale: Save Royce for last, so he'd know I was coming.

    [we see 3 policemen, standing outside Royce's door; cut to inside where Royce hears all the police get taken out; cowering in a corner, Rosalie breaks the door down, wearing a wedding dress, complete with veil; smiles menacingly]

    Rosalie Hale: [back to Rosalie now; smiles at the memory] I was a little theatrical back then.

    [long pause as a series of emotions play across her face; continues]

    Rosalie Hale: Things got better after I found Emmett.

    [nods briefly; beat]

    Rosalie Hale: But we'll always be this... Frozen... Never moving forward. That's what I miss the most. Possibilities.

  • Bella Swan: This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was between who I should be and who I am. I've always felt out of step. Like literally stumbling through my life. I've never felt normal, because I'm not normal, and I don't wanna be. I've had to face death and loss and pain in your world, but I've also never felt stronger, like more real, more myself, because it's my world too. It's where I belong.

    Edward Cullen: So it's not just about me?

    Bella Swan: No.

    [pause]

    Bella Swan: Sorry...